I like a lot of period dramas, the Victorian novels, etc. Men aren't supposed to like such "chick flicks," are they, but I've always gone my own way and not given a bugger about convention.
i'm gonna catch some heat for this, but i'm a twilight fan, too. it's not about what an epic piece of literature it is, or how realistic it is (duh), but it reminded me of my first love. when you think nobody understands how you feel and all the angsty shit that goes with it. obviously we all grow up to realize that our first love that we would "die for" was just slightly blown out of proportion, but at the time it meant more than anything. it just made me a crazy hormonal teenager again where one week, "omg the love of my life left me"....*wilt away*, then "oh hello best friend that will be the perfect rebounder". i will say that BD did nothing for me, and really wished everything ended up differently, but whatever.
Just because you can distinguish between fact and fiction doesn't mean that the Twilight series isn't damaging, and perpetuating awful stereotypes and negatives views of women and relationships. To me, being able to tell the difference makes it worse that you're going to see it, than someone who doesn't understand the negative impact that it has. You see it, and choose to support it anyway.
and to add to this, here's a quote a read earlier today.
“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night that leaves the heroine to wake up covered with bruises in the shape of her husband’s hands - and when that heroine then spends the morning explaining to her husband that she’s incredibly happy even though he injured her, and that it’s not his fault because she understands he couldn’t help it in light of the depth of his passion - that’s profoundly irresponsible.” - NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1
I won't be seeing Breaking Dawn for a variety of reasons (first and foremost in that I didn't enjoy the Twilight book), but I do have to say: If women only watched films that represented women as something other than submissive to men, obsessed primarily with catching a man, and/or sex objects, we'd have very little to watch!
I wish I had some guilty pleasures to offer to the table, but I really don't watch that many films, and the few I do I don't feel particularly ashamed of-- they're easily justified as nostalgia or pure entertainment. Honestly, I tend to more guilty about the things I haven't seen; I am woefully under-watched when it comes to a lot of classics and pop-culture favorites.
I'm just writing to ask what kind of brain injury I would have to sustain before I decide that watching any of the Twilight series seems like a fun thing to do.
La Meyer, like Orson Scott Card, is a toxic, homophobic wretch, and the Twishite series is just a thinly-veiled vehicle for Meyer's bigotry-drenched, corrupt, childlike philosophy.
Actually, I suspect that nothing short of total decapitation with cauterisation of the stump would probably do, because the Twiblight films cause my very brain stem to lurch in writhing disgust.
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“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night that leaves the heroine to wake up covered with bruises in the shape of her husband’s hands - and when that heroine then spends the morning explaining to her husband that she’s incredibly happy even though he injured her, and that it’s not his fault because she understands he couldn’t help it in light of the depth of his passion - that’s profoundly irresponsible.”
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NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1
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I wish I had some guilty pleasures to offer to the table, but I really don't watch that many films, and the few I do I don't feel particularly ashamed of-- they're easily justified as nostalgia or pure entertainment. Honestly, I tend to more guilty about the things I haven't seen; I am woefully under-watched when it comes to a lot of classics and pop-culture favorites.
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I'm just writing to ask what kind of brain injury I would have to sustain before I decide that watching any of the Twilight series seems like a fun thing to do.
La Meyer, like Orson Scott Card, is a toxic, homophobic wretch, and the Twishite series is just a thinly-veiled vehicle for Meyer's bigotry-drenched, corrupt, childlike philosophy.
Actually, I suspect that nothing short of total decapitation with cauterisation of the stump would probably do, because the Twiblight films cause my very brain stem to lurch in writhing disgust.
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