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Why changing Lestat’s mother’s name from Gabrielle to Gabriella is assign. (The Vampire Lestat / Interview with The Vampire season 3 related).
Included at the bottom is a small rant about the weird feminizing and sexualizing of a very non-sexual and gender-nonconforming character.
The main excuse I’ve been given for the name change is that it’s “more accurate since she’s Italian.” Well, yes, and no. Here are a few problems with that.
1. In the eighteenth century if you came from another country and married into French nobility, you took on a French version of your name. Marie Antoinette started as Maria. Marie was her French name.
2. Gabrielle came from a region of Italy that was occupied by The French at the time.
3. According to Anne Rice, herself, Gabrielle’s mother was French. That means Lestat is only ¼ Italian. It’s Gabrielle’s FRENCH mother who named her.
4. Gabrielle was married to Lestat’s father at fifteen, that means over two thirds of her life would have been speaking French, not Italian. She knew Italian but she would be far more used to talking in French. Lestat didn’t know any Italian until after he became a vampire.
Also what is with Gabrielle being all for “The Great conversion”? Since when is she interested in a mad scheme for vampires to take over the world?
Also Glamping!? The character was practically fem Tarzan in the novel. Also it seems obvious to me this show was written by heterosexual men who are trying to pretend they’re pro-LGBTQAI+ by fixating on a promiscuous interpretation of bisexual and completely ignoring Gabrielle’s gender nonconformity. (She stopped wearing woman’s clothes the night she became a vampire, folks!) She still identified as a woman but she didn’t dress like one.
They took a very androgynous, masculine-leaning woman and made her hyper-sexual / hyper feminine and implied to be kind of evil. This is the woman who rescued Louis and Lestat from the concert in the novel. (Imagine the concert from the Queen of the damned movie but with Gabrielle pulling up in the chaos and driving Lestat and Louis out of there with Akasha not far behind).
Gabrielle wouldn't go "Glamping." I feel almost dirty at the notion of her using the term. It feels rooted in casual sexism along with her new feminization. "Lestat's mother can't be butch! That's not sexy!"
Because God forbid we have a female vampire who isn't modeled after the 1930s through 70s notion of glamorous, Fem Fatale, female vampire.
Included at the bottom is a small rant about the weird feminizing and sexualizing of a very non-sexual and gender-nonconforming character.
The main excuse I’ve been given for the name change is that it’s “more accurate since she’s Italian.” Well, yes, and no. Here are a few problems with that.
1. In the eighteenth century if you came from another country and married into French nobility, you took on a French version of your name. Marie Antoinette started as Maria. Marie was her French name.
2. Gabrielle came from a region of Italy that was occupied by The French at the time.
3. According to Anne Rice, herself, Gabrielle’s mother was French. That means Lestat is only ¼ Italian. It’s Gabrielle’s FRENCH mother who named her.
4. Gabrielle was married to Lestat’s father at fifteen, that means over two thirds of her life would have been speaking French, not Italian. She knew Italian but she would be far more used to talking in French. Lestat didn’t know any Italian until after he became a vampire.
Also what is with Gabrielle being all for “The Great conversion”? Since when is she interested in a mad scheme for vampires to take over the world?
Also Glamping!? The character was practically fem Tarzan in the novel. Also it seems obvious to me this show was written by heterosexual men who are trying to pretend they’re pro-LGBTQAI+ by fixating on a promiscuous interpretation of bisexual and completely ignoring Gabrielle’s gender nonconformity. (She stopped wearing woman’s clothes the night she became a vampire, folks!) She still identified as a woman but she didn’t dress like one.
They took a very androgynous, masculine-leaning woman and made her hyper-sexual / hyper feminine and implied to be kind of evil. This is the woman who rescued Louis and Lestat from the concert in the novel. (Imagine the concert from the Queen of the damned movie but with Gabrielle pulling up in the chaos and driving Lestat and Louis out of there with Akasha not far behind).
Gabrielle wouldn't go "Glamping." I feel almost dirty at the notion of her using the term. It feels rooted in casual sexism along with her new feminization. "Lestat's mother can't be butch! That's not sexy!"
Because God forbid we have a female vampire who isn't modeled after the 1930s through 70s notion of glamorous, Fem Fatale, female vampire.
