*crickets*

So it's about not accepting adulthood, hmmm? Brendan published a majestic rant about rejecting adulthood being quite the zeitgeist.

A Twilight post??? *shakes head* Dan, I expected better from you.

It's a Twilight post about how Twilight glamorizes anti-sex, woman staying at home (in the kitchen), and weird Daddy fetishes.

Totally in Dan's typical line.

ok ... why the hell is an immortal army now going to war over a girl that just won't give it up?

a NINETEEN year old girl ... if there is any way to make my stomach turn even more ... I couldn't even finish it.

Dan, being homosexual is no excuse for showing interest in Twilight. Man card.

I have to disagree that's it's anti-interracial relationships Jacob falls in love with Bella's infant daughter, and plans to marry her as soon as she's physically old enough aka 4 years old, looks 17. Bella and Edward are ok with this. So their daughter will be groomed by her loving uncle Jacob, until he becomes her husband. Not only interracial, but interspecies (the daughter is half vampire/half human and Jacob is a werewolf). So Twilight is even more messed up than that.

If you want to see my essay on it.

http://cameoamalthea.deviantart.com/gall…

@6: So quick to judge, Venomlash! Just like what #4 typed, it's a post about how this movie that so many young girls care about, preaches anti-feminism. It's a post showcasing his informed dislike of Twilight, and not the reactionary dislike of yours and mine, and I for one am slightly humbled by it.

OK, I know I'm going to get ripped for this, but Bella wants to be a vampire so that she will be strong, like Edward. She says to him at one point that they both have to "save each other equally", and that he can't always be swooping in to save her. So there is a definite sense that she wants to share power in the relationship, and not to be unequal and out of balance.

And they get it on--a LOT--in the next book. And from the first book one of the other couples is constantly horn-dogging after each other.

"The movie TWILIGHT is like soccer. They run around for two hours, nobody scores, and its billion fans insist that you just don't understand."

I'm not sure who to credit this quote to, but it cracked me up when I read it!

@8: I have read several paragraphs over the shoulder of a female acquaintance, and have had the basic plot asplained to me by my sisters. The writing SUCKS ASS; it's like reading one of those cheap romance novels that are priced by the pound at Walgreens. And the plot would make Bram Stoker or any other sensible dead person spin in his grave. I am justified in my disgust with the series.

@10: LIKE.

@10: I found it here http://twitter.com/bretterlich

@7's link didn't survive the posting. Here it is http://cameoamalthea.deviantart.com/gall…

@11 - I really, really like the phrase, "...any other sensible dead person..." Thanks for that.

Stephanie Meyer is a Mormon and the Book of Mormon clearly shows antipathy toward dark-skinned people. Her religion very obviously informs her idea of intimate relationships as well. (I don't mean to say that all Mormons think this way, simply that one of their alleged divinely inspired books says so). I think one of the reasons so many young females like this book is that it's as close to erotica as you can get your parents to buy you (or that you can buy yourself without feeling awkward).

Let me see, extreme male domination, "keep to your own kind," much older man with much younger girl, and serious hang-ups about sexuality (marry first!)

What were we expecting from a Mormon writer, exactly?