I couldn’t have written it better myself. Please read this brilliant piece on the series that is Twilight.
If your daughters are reading these books and watching these movies, make sure to take the time to (1) read them first yourself so that you understand how ‘relationships’ are being packaged for these young women; and, (2) have the decency (stemming from your obligation and duty as a parent, you useless moron) to sit down and teach your daughters that the Twilight brand of ‘romance’ and ‘love’ are in fact abusive relationships in which the young female protagonist cedes control, isolates herself from her family and friends, is obsessive // dealing with a stalking-obsessive other, and is expected to give up everything (while he: nothing).
Remember to also mention the RAPE and the aspects of PEDOPHILIA prevalent within.
(Mamas, pay attention: After having sex for the first time, the female character wakes up bruised and battered and incapable of remembering the night or the sex. This is not healthy sexual intercourse (and if it is for you, then you need help), but rather it is what one might call date rape via roofies.)
I hate these books. I hate that our daughters are being taught this is proper love. I don’t care that you, of sophisticated and thinking adult mind, are capable of deciphering and peeling the layers of grotesque that make up the Twilight series. It’s the young women. The Twi-Hards, the 10 – 20 somethings (yeah, you’re still a child at 20. Deal with it.) who are reading these books and romanticising the insidious messages within.
For those of you with young boys who are reading these books and watching these movies, then you too have a moral obligation to teach them that this brand of love and romance is unacceptable. That if they behave in this manner, they are (simply put): abusive and dangerous di*ks.
God, I hate Twilight.
(P.S. Since posting this bit, I decided to skim the entire series, so as to ensure I wasn’t talking out of my ass & out of line about something I hadn’t completely investigated. I stand by my initial visceral and violent reaction.)
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I'm so sad for my generation. There was a discussion between a group of people on the matter of whether Bella was raped or not. A twitard replied that even though she was unconscious she has basically forced it upon Edward to begin with and given consent, so it couldn't possible be considered rape. My reply was ".. uhh you're an idiot and know nothing about the law, because if you did you would understand that as soon as a person loses consciousness their consent is automatically withdrawn".
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