Have you ever run into a Vampire? How did you get away from him? Do you have hints for my readers on how to steer clear of men who identify as Vampires … or Lust Murderers … or in modern parlance, as Gender: Slayers?

Image: “The Couple: The Impossibility to Make It [cropped],” from artist Leda Luss Luyken’s own files, 10 October 1996, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Couple_1.JPG … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported … COMMENTS: Note how the woman is ‘keeping an eye on’ the man. This artist, I feel, is putting the metaphor-filled symbolic language of the subconscious mind on canvas! Note how the blood stain on the man’s lips is shaped like a heart. Does the man have in mind to ‘eat the woman’s heart out’? Is he a ‘heart vampire’, who absorbs love from a woman without giving any in return? In a worst case scenario, might the man have in mind to eat the physical heart of the woman? Might he be a cannibal?! What does this image really mean? –Alice B. Clagett
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Dear Ones,
Alice the Amateur Psychologist says: This Vampire Waltz seems to me to show that men who murder women as a means of sexual satisfaction may view the world as a mime performance.
Video: “Vampire Waltz (music video),” by Xavier J., 7 May 2016 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk9walOQI44 ..
Two-Faced Master of Ceremonies
They may think of themselves and of society as two-faced, as may be seen by the black-and-white paint on the face of the master of ceremonies at timeframe 0:30 and following.
A Third Gender: Slayers!
It could be that Woman Slayers … lust murderers … think of themselves as “Gender: Slayers” – in other words, as being a ‘third gender’ that murders rather than as a person who chooses to engage in the traditional male / female sexual ritual.
Subconscious Metaphor: The Puppeteer
It may be as if the Woman Slayers are standing on a balcony observing other people who interact by means of stiff social gestures, without showing their true feelings. Woman Slayers may think of other people, both men and women, as puppets rather than living beings.
Spider Women
They may think of women as two-faced cruel ‘spider women’ who pretend to be friendly but are really antisocial, as is portrayed by the vignette of the limber woman wearing two masks at timeframe 0:40 and following.
Subconscious Metaphor: The Man on the Balcony – the Man Who Is ‘Above It All’
Just after that, at timeframe 0:50 and following is a vignette of two somber jesters who walk onto a balcony to observe what might be termed the stylized ‘social dance’ on the dance floor below them.
These two men might represent what woman-slaying men feel is their true selves – that they are rational men detached from the mime performance.
In this timeframe, socialized people … who participate in what Woman Slayers see as a stylized dance … are literally beneath the Woman Slayers (because they are standing on a balcony; this is a subconscious metaphor, meaning that they feel that socialized people are beneath them – below them – less worthy than them.
This metaphor appears again as the Vampire below grabs his red-dressed dance partner close, then lowers her beneath himself.
Then at timeframe 1:10 and following, the other man – the Vampire that merely observes the performance – is swinging on a trapeze far above the incipient sexual act. In other words, he is ‘above it all’.
Subconscious Metaphor: The Jester
Here is another take on timeframe 0:50 and following, which is a vignette of two somber jesters. Why jesters? Could it be that Woman Slayers feel other people think of them as fools … and also that other people don’t take them for who they really are?
These men may have found that it is easy to make a jest about how they murder women, and that socialized people will think they are making a joke. They may have found that socialized people will just laugh and turn away, rather than putting on the handcuffs.
Why? Because socialized peoples’ minds are set in a mold that cannot admit of such outre behavior as that of the Woman Slayer.
The Vampirism Legend as a Metaphor for Lust Murder
At timeframe 2:10 and following the Vampire baring his teeth symbolizes his murder of the sexy woman as a means of satisfying his sexual urge. So there you have the Vampire Legend as a portrayal of Woman Slayers down through the ages.
It must be, then, that Woman Slayers have played at Gender: Slayer role in the warp and woof of the civilized world for about a thousand years now, since the legend originated in 1047 A.D.
Down through the centuries it must be that the Vampire legend came to be defined as Woman Slayer only, rather than as Slayer of both men and women. At least, so it seems from this interesting video review.
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What do you think of this movie review? If you are not a Vampire, please feel free to comment.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Written and published on 10 September 2024
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