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Esther Markussen
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This is the closest I have to a bible, and it isn't religious text. It doesn't attempt to tell you how to live, or right and wrong, as it is a historical research. However through it, you understand the connection between feminism and demonization. How christianity has been used to repress women, and demonize masculine, gay or just free women. And then how satan, representing opposition, has been used as a liberator.
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Esther Markussen
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Done with chapter 5 on "Satan as the Emancipator of women in Gothic literature". Intresting is how vampires and werewolf women, are representative of the subversion of patriarcial ideals, as they are unmotherly, wild and free. Thus can be read feministic as liberating. However through the eyes of authors like Bram Stoker and Le Fanu, are intended as a warning, and sexist protrayl of feminist. So again ambivalent
— Jul 03, 2026 01:42AM
Esther Markussen
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Remind me to read "La Morte amoureuse". A priest is seduced by a unholy female vampire, who represents, in constrast to the church, freedom, sexual liberation and beauti. Sounds magnificantly sensual and is perhaps one of the earliest vampire works, being from 1836!
— Jun 01, 2026 12:10AM
Esther Markussen
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"There is an old tradition of viewing vampirism as almost synonymous with satanism"
Well, well, well... it's always exciting to find out how predictable I am... He aslo mentions that the church, in 1744, saw vampirism as a consequense of over-active imagination, and gosh I hope so😫
— May 31, 2026 11:56PM
Well, well, well... it's always exciting to find out how predictable I am... He aslo mentions that the church, in 1744, saw vampirism as a consequense of over-active imagination, and gosh I hope so😫
Esther Markussen
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Actually I'm only on page 133, but I decided to move to the last two champters, because I had a feeling that Faxneld saved the best for last. And finally a dource that truly livebup to the books name. The story of Mary maclane, which this chapter deals with in detail, is the diary of a 19 year old girl, who praises the devil and devour herself to him. It's giving the satanic bible but if Lavey were a gay teen girl
— Dec 06, 2025 01:41PM
Esther Markussen
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"Women and men are but souls temporarily incarnated in female or male bodies, and that even in particular lifetime many women are more male than some men and vice versa. It is therefore inappropiate to impose special restrictions of any kind on women" this is pro trans anti-gendernorms statement is argued by Susan E. Gay (yes that's her surname) in 1890! Amazing
— Dec 02, 2025 05:56AM
Esther Markussen
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Just finished chapter 2 on socialist "satanism".
I think it's intresting how satan was used by different authors as a hero for the working class, (and thus God as a protector or the status quo, and the rich), since this "working class hero" is also a role taken on by Jesus. However were satan was also connected to womens rights (Genesis 3) ...well Jesus... not so much a feminist
— Nov 26, 2025 01:47PM
I think it's intresting how satan was used by different authors as a hero for the working class, (and thus God as a protector or the status quo, and the rich), since this "working class hero" is also a role taken on by Jesus. However were satan was also connected to womens rights (Genesis 3) ...well Jesus... not so much a feminist
Esther Markussen
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A french writer, named Bakunin, argues: "if God is, man is a slave; now man can and must be free; then, God does not exist." He uses this as proof that there is no god, and while it doesn't proof anything, as it's flawed, it still brings on an intresting frame for discussion. Cause in this world he sees there are 2 options: we create slavery upon ourselves to a fictional God. Or God exist and we are slaves by nature.
— Nov 21, 2025 10:36AM
Esther Markussen
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The snake in the garden of eden, often being depicted and describes as a female (with female head, sometimes breast) is a slay, and also kind of gay? Weirdly but still
— Oct 27, 2025 01:31PM
Esther Markussen
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Turns out the first to do satanism was danish, so go us I guess😅
— Oct 25, 2025 01:45PM
