Female vampires threaten a propagation that needs no male seed

Evidence

The Gothic has always been about replication as opposed to reproduction. It’s no coincidence that the female vampire was often associated with lesbianism (most gloriously in what is perhaps the definitive goth film, The Hunger) because vampires and lesbians (like machines) present the horror (from the point of view of the phallic One) of a propagative power that has no use for the male seed. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1043

Categorization

• CANDY: A tidy, tweetable insight linking vampires, lesbians, machines, and reproduction vs replication.
• XREF: connects to: Victorian vampires represented sexually predatory immigrants threatening racial purity.; Vampire women fuse dangerous animal appetite with seductive European beauty. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 547; Gothic horror monsters functioned as vessels for anxieties about women — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 354

Broader Connections

• Victorian vampires represented sexually predatory immigrants threatening racial purity. #corroborates (0.85)
• Vampire women fuse dangerous animal appetite with seductive European beauty. #corroborates (0.80) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 547
• Gothic horror monsters functioned as vessels for anxieties about women #responds-to (0.80) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 354