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
