"Mister, I'll make a man out of you" (Damon Salvatore and gender performance)
(I'm not here. Just posting this quickly, because vergoldung wanted to read this meta before she goes on hiatus, and then I'm running away again. I'm so laaaaaaate!)
bellonablack requested a meta about how Damon's and Stefan's background influences gender roles they perform. That's not exactly what I'm going to do. It's not a Brothers post, it's a Damon post, because I ( Read more... )
bellonablack requested a meta about how Damon's and Stefan's background influences gender roles they perform. That's not exactly what I'm going to do. It's not a Brothers post, it's a Damon post, because I ( Read more... )
Damon was the rebellious son, the one who went against the social expectations, the abolitionist, the idealist.
It's really interesting, right? Like, just "not playing the game to the extent of killing and being killed for it" becomes "rebellion" because that's the level of conformity that's expected. In my interpretation of the character, I definitely wouldn't go so far as "abolitionist" but I do think once he got to the front, it burst his Mystic Falls bubble and he did move toward that end of the spectrum, but I don't give him a whole lot of credit for that. I do actually believe he had come to the conclusion that the South was wrong - though I also think that the principle Stefan credits him with was more the tipping point on top of all the other self-interested reasons he didn't want to be there anyway.
He doesn't go against the antebellum idea of masculinity, because he doesn't care enough to even pay attention to the antebellum idea of masculinity.
hahahaha that is my boy.
Being a patchwork of various gender performances is the best survival technique for him, so he became a patchwork. Damon is far too practical to be rebellious. He has to be smart. Like Katherine.
yuhhhhs.
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