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A couple of years ago I got into a LiveJournal argument with a fellow poster\u2019s friend (arguing online is the BEST) about whether or not Bella was just another sullen teenager and Edward was an abusive boyfriend.\u00a0 She claimed Stephenie Meyer\u2019s writing was bad for teenage girls because it is sexist, that Bella and Edward were terrible role models, and that it would encourage boys and girls to emulate them.<\/p>\n
Her first mistake: assuming that boys care about Twilight.\u00a0 Very few of them do and the ones who are into it won\u2019t be beating up their girlfriends if you get my drift.<\/p>\n
Her second mistake: assuming that all teenagers aren\u2019t sullen.\u00a0 Uhmmm\u2026all of the ones I\u2019ve known are, at least part of the time.\u00a0 It\u2019s a genetic right of passage.\u00a0 Besides, the girl has been uprooted, has to make all new friends and lives in a town that\u2019s gloomy and overcast all of the time.\u00a0 Put yourself in her shoes bitch.<\/p>\n
Her third mistake: she hadn\u2019t bothered to read the final book and had no plan to do so.\u00a0 So, without getting the full story she formulated a concrete opinion about it and decided she wasn\u2019t going to be convinced otherwise.<\/p>\n
Brilliant.<\/p>\n
Stupid people exhaust me.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not saying that she\u2019s not entitled to her own opinion, I\u2019m just saying that she should get the whole story before she formulates said opinion and then starts fighting with people she doesn\u2019t know about it.<\/p>\n
Or am I just talking crazy?<\/p>\n Here\u2019s why I think she is wrong\u2026<\/p>\n Edward and Bella, with their \u201cno sex before marriage\u201d policy, sure are bad role models for teenagers, aren\u2019t they?\u00a0 Of course Bella kinda wants to do it, she has raging teenage hormones and her boyfriend is mega hot (in an ice cold kinda way).\u00a0 If and when I ever have a teenage daughter *shudder* I hope that her boyfriend has the same respect for her that Edward has for Bella.\u00a0 Not that I want potential future daughter to get married right out of high school or anything but it would be nice if she waited until then to start doing the deed.<\/p>\n Regarding the whole Edward the Abuser bullshit argument.\u00a0 I take real issue with this.\u00a0 Bella may be whiny but she certainly stands up for herself.\u00a0 Edward never once attacks her physically or verbally. \u00a0Pushing her away from a charging Jasper is not abuse.\u00a0 It\u2019s panic.\u00a0 Keeping her from a friend he feels is dangerous is not abuse.\u00a0 It\u2019s concern.\u00a0 I love Jacob to death but she does tend to get injured when she\u2019s in La Push.\u00a0 My boyfriend\u2019s would have been concerned as well and not wanted me to hang out with him.\u00a0 Nevermind the fact that he IS a relatively volatile young werewolf who has had trouble controlling himself around her.\u00a0 I will admit that the whole breaking her heart thing in New Moon really sucked for her but everyone has gotten dumped at one time or another and it\u2019s just one of those shitty parts of life.<\/p>\n The sexism.\u00a0 Yeesh.\u00a0 Where do I begin with this one??\u00a0 It\u2019s not like she keeps her trap shut.\u00a0 She definitely speaks her mind whether she\u2019s confident about what she\u2019s saying or not.\u00a0 LJ Girl\u2019s biggest argument was that Bella is always the victim and Edward always has to save her.\u00a0 First of all, how is that different from most of the stories out there?\u00a0 Guys are constantly saving the damsel in distress.\u00a0 Second, if she had bothered to read the last book she would have known that the tables turn and Bella ends up being all bad ass and saving EVERYONE.\u00a0 Yep, that\u2019s super sexist all right, having the chick be the one who saves the day.<\/p>\n Twilight is like Harry Potter in that it has gotten kids to read books.\u00a0 You know, those things made of paper with words in them that seem to elude Generation Me.\u00a0 Anything that can do that is great and wonderful with me.\u00a0 I personally love the books and will totally cop to being a Twitard.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t as juicy as the Sookie books or as well-written as HP but Stephenie Meyer has a way of drawing you in and not letting you go.\u00a0 Hemingway she is not but there is something magnetic about her stories and her characters that keep me coming back for more.\u00a0 She\u2019s also sold more than 100 million books worldwide in 37 languages and was the biggest selling 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