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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"
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Or maybe she just had tuberculosis...
Yes, one thing you have to understand when reading old stories like this is that the look that tuberculosis gave you was literally romanticized, to be pale and slightly sickly was seen as desirable
That's why I brought it up
The OG cocaine chique
I’m not so sure about this. Pale yes, as it meant you were upper class and didn’t work in the sun.
Skinny no, I think that’s a much more modern thing. They wanted you to be fat, or at least voluptuous as a woman. Again it meant you weren’t starved, you were healthy and well fed. You could bear children. That transcends a lot of cultures too. Pretty much all of them probably.
I don’t think we started romanticizing skinny until food was mass produced, shelf stable, affordable, accessible etc. and medicine could handle pregnancy and greatly prevent early childhood deaths.