![]() She makes men “work hard” and “spend hard”. The music video employs an alternative sexual approach that kind of redefines a man-eater into a more feminist icon. In the 2000’s we had the song of the same name by Nelly Furtado. They focus on the bestial aspect of how dangerous the man-eater is. In the song, they describe a woman who is the “lean and hungry type” and warns “If you’re in it for love, you ain’t gonna get too far”. I’m sure when you think of a man-eater many people recall the song Maneater by Hall and Oates released in 1982. “This fine bride is one of the vampires, that is to say of those beings whom the many regard as lamias and hobgoblins.”Īnd then of course we get into the modern culture of music. He describes the Lamia as a serpent when he says, “You are a fine youth and are hunted by fine women, but in this case, you are cherishing a serpent, and a serpent cherishes you.” He also refers to her as a blood sucking vampire. In Philostratus’s story of the Lamia, Apollonius tells the young bridegroom, Menippus, his hastily married wife is really a Lamia, planning to devour him. The Kiss of the Enchantress (Isobel Lilian Gloag, ca. We also have the myth of the Lamia who, in Greek mythology, was originally described as a serpent who eats babies and later evolves into a seductress that enticed and devoured men in female form. Popular examples include Lillith (Adam’s first wife before Eve) who refused to lie beneath Adam and was forced to cause sickness to infants and seduce men in their dreams. Throughout time, women were regarded as “baby eaters” and “vampires”. This thought of a man-eater is by no means an original idea. She decided that if this was her fate, she would turn the tables and become a weapon against her oppressors. ![]() What started this change from a fashion icon to a man-eater was when Nana saw Queen Pomaré who was once like her but became “an old rag-and-bone woman who was raking about in the gutters.” Nana saw this as a future for herself. ![]() In the same paragraph the author continues, “Like a huge fire, she devoured everything, the profits from financial swindles no less than the fruits of labour.” Nana used her beauty and seduction skills to drain these gullible men of all their money. The growing needs of her life of luxury sharpened her appetite, and she would clean a man out with one snap of her teeth.” The author later goes on to talk about all the men Nana had “gobbled” up and left them penniless. When talking about the titular main character, Zola (depending on which translation you read) describes her man-eating as: “gobbl them up, one after the other. While reading the novel Nana by Émile Zola, an amusing choice of words comes up in Chapter 13. ![]()
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