So on this lazy Sunday I have decided to forgo the pleasures of mocking the manosphere in favor of this little musical interlude. Here’s an interesting performance by Malian musicians Daouda ‘Flani’ Sangaré and Alou Fané of their signature song, “Keleya.” I found it on the excellent African/Latin music blog WorldService. The blogger explains:
The song is about the jealousy (“keleya”) between co-épouses (co-wifes) in a polygamous marriage. When performing the song Flani would dress up as a woman, and would at times improvise to add to the comical effect of the song.
So is Flani’s cross-dressing a challenge to gender roles, or a comical reaffirmation of patriarchal power? I really don’t know. Gender is complicated. But this is a killer song. Today, the Boobz can wait.
I think that depends on the source. MrB has described some of the Vampire: the Masquerade games he’s played in, and every single player seems to have used CHA as a dump stat. But in most paranormal romance books out there, vampire = seriously hot thousand year old dude who totes wants to make out with some random awkward girl because she is his Fated! Mate! (Srsly, wtf is up with this Fated Love thing that so many para books have? is it just a random plot device to force two totally unmatched characters into sexual situations until they realize that they really have Twoo Luv, despite pretty much hating each other for most of the book?)
Only if you put a lot of points in Presence or Dominate.
Goddamnit, KathleenB ninjaed me with the VtM reference.
There are two broad vampire traditions: the (predominant) sexy vampire one, in which vampires are dangerous but appealing and bloodsucking is a pretty clear analogue of sex; and the vampire-as-scary-monster tradition (as in Nosferatu or 30 Days of Night). Sometimes, as in Buffy, you get the two together.
Watched the old Hammer horror flick The Horror of Dracula last night. There’s a scene where one of Dracula’s female victims carefully opens her window and removes her cross before getting into bed to eagerly await sexy Dracula’s arrival.