Comments on: Twilight Saga: TwiLite

By: TheNargle

TheNargle — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:59:44 +0000

@Najma Please do so, and replace them with the Harry potter books! That would easily do my year, THANKS!(:

By: Najma

Najma — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:56:59 +0000

I work at a library after school and I’m seriously tempted to take the Twishite books we have and hide them. In a hole. In Timbuktu.

By: Greyhero

Greyhero — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:28:48 +0000

Greyhero wishes that all the Twilight fangirls would figure out that Edward is a STALKER, and the relationship between him and Bella is the most unhealthy “romantic” relationship in all of fiction!

Also? Vampires DO NOT SPARKLE!

By: ILuvMJ

ILuvMJ — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:09:51 +0000

twilight is the reason that the abusive jock men like edward and jacob get all the ladies and the nice caring men like MJ are being ignored and called names. twilight can kiss my ass.

By: ILuvMJ

ILuvMJ — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:07:04 +0000

….sneaking in your house to watch you sleep? yeah, men should learn manners from edward. twilight is so stupid.

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:19:46 +0000

Perfect!!

By: amber

amber — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:35:28 +0000

I LOLed.

By: reeedins fer suxers

reeedins fer suxers — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:15:08 +0000

Amber, yes, but those books are not good.

By: amber

amber — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:41:41 +0000

oh, jesus christ. it’s a storybook vampire, not the wifebeater-clad, drunken, one-armed drummer of def leppard. calm fucking down.

the issue here is less that Edward is some creepy, postmortem, much-hotter Ike Turner waiting to jump out of the coffin and give Bella a black eye. the issue is that if Twilight is a reminder of a cultural subtext that makes girls think it’s okay to be a possession to a man, or to accept abusive, creepy behavior from a man, then we have a lot more to worry about. like commercials and other forms of advertising, books they’re reading in school, and for god’s sakes, guess-the-flabby-female-celebrity-ass on the cover of the enquirer.

i think it makes much more sense to teach our girls how to have high standards and expectations, a realistic self-view, and how to separate fantasy from reality. then we won’t need people taking the piss out of good, fun novels.

By: Lolita

Lolita — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:14 +0000

@jenna: But they’re not healthy standards. The kind of behavior romanticized in the books– “I want to kill you, but I won’t, because I love you… You mean EVERYTHING to me… etc.”– and the sense of ownership on the part of the male lead over the female lead are behaviors that, in real life, would indicate a potentially abusive relationship. I used to volunteer at a women’s shelter and the kinds of cultural ideas that let women think abusive behavior in their husbands’/boyfriends’ is normal or acceptable (or even desirable and manly!) when it’s, well, abusive, is NOT harmless.