i nominate ali for best comment on my twilight rant, pasted below:
aggressive.
disclosure: i haven’t seen twilight, mostly b/c it has been so panned by feminists that i decided i won’t support the franchise. maybe i’ll watch a bootlegged copy or something. this is all based on what i’ve heard and read. you can stop reading this comment right now if you wish.
in defense of those who like twilight, i can see the appeal. sounds like a pretty good epic love story — classic romeo and juliet, except instead of class and family feuds, the guy wants to eat the girl. on the surface, it’s a lot like the love story in buffy, which is probably the reason i liked buffy so much.
but then twilight goes off the rails with its obvious stupid opinions on sex, virginity, and sluttiness. and it also seems to condone abusive relationships. in fact, bella is pretty much useless. i don’t expect every female character out there to be gloria steinem in a hoodie, but there are degrees of anti-feminism i can take, and twilight seems to offend so many sensibilities at once, rendering it unwatchable. i’m not that distressed that twilight exists, but i do find it worrisome that so many people (women) don’t seem to care particularly about the abusive undertones. more of an indictment about how society doesn’t seem to take abuse very seriously, but perhaps i’m making generalizations.
ps: i don’t think i’d want my child to be like starbuck. what a mess.
so say we all.
-srd
1 response so far ↓
Katie Frank // July 14, 2009 at 5:33 pm |
Let me share…
I am a middle school English teacher. I was able to avoide the Twilight epidemic for about a year. Then I caved. I read; I watched.
Yes, I got sucked into the books. Some of them, anyway. But your low quality observation of the movie is the same way I felt about the books. There is A LOT of bad writing in it. It felt like reality tv. It’s a lot of crap, but you just have to keep watching!
Ditto the movie comments. It sucked, was poorly made and chincy.
As for abuse, I am a Jacob girl all the way. He had real emotions, and he was the only character to have any real growth. I’m not sure how abusive I found Edward, but I did find him kind of uninteresting and mellodramatic. Bella was just plain boring until the last book.
Thanks for listening. That felt good to say.
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