Goddamn fangbangers

[idemandcoffee]

For those of you who don't like vampire fiction, skip the following rant. Also, I have my sarcasm pants on, so there's a liberal dose of that in here.

Fangbanger: Someone who loves spending time around vampires, underneath which is the underlying belief that if they're whatever (sexy/lovable/cool/smart/worthy) enough they will be turned into a

Comments

[eveningrepose]

Hm, that could be in part due to humans tend to have issues with seeing attractive people as being bad or being capable of being bad. All they see is a hot vampire and usually that is all they want to see.

Which leads me to that humans might also have issues dealing with their attraction towards characters or even people who have quite the vicious underlying personality. They can not justify their attraction to a murderer to themselves, so they will instead construct within their minds that the individual they like is obviously not a murderer but really a good person. Any negative actions from the person they like are then excused or explained away, negated in favor of only acknowledging the good characteristics.

It is an easy way to eliminate any inner discrepancies between being attracted to someone versus the repulsion of what they are. Easier for most than instead coming to terms that they are attracted to a killer.

[idemandcoffee]

Hm, that could be in part due to humans tend to have issues with seeing attractive people as being bad or being capable of being bad.

Well, it's the same phenomenon with serial killers, and their jailhouse brides. They want to believe that because they empathise with the person, they must be empathising with a good person. But I think it's more exaggerated with vampires, merely because it's an interaction between you and the fiction itself, rather than you and the input of the newspaper and others' opinions.

I think perhaps at least in part it's their own PR and internal dialogue as well. They believe (as most people do) that they are an unfailingly good person - minimising their own faults and glorifying their own selves. So if they are a good person, and they are attracted to another person, that person must therefore be a good person. So they lie to themselves about things.