A lot of people commenting on unfavorable reviews on Twilight are calling the authors, (often women,) anti-feminist for not liking these books. I think they are confused as to why some people dislike these books and why the authors of these reviews call the books anti-feminist. They seem to think that it has something to do with Bella choosing not to go to college and be a stay at home wife/mother. Allow me to clear this up a little.
The reason people are calling it anti-feminist is NOT because Bella chooses to be a stay at home mom, (even though her daughter will be grown in five years,) and not because she chooses not to go to college, (even though, as I understand it, all the Cullens have about a million degrees,) but because of the way Edward treats Bella.
My Mom is/was a stay at home mother who never went to college and she is a strong, intelligent woman who doesn't let anyone push her around. Bella, however, is a doormat. Edward dominates her, (creepily,) at every turn and she, (and the fans,) sigh and think it's so romantic, or dismiss it as protectiveness. If you had a friend whose boyfriend wouldn't let her see certain other friends out of jealousy, who stalked her and watched her sleep and disabled her car to keep her from going places he didn't approve of, what would you do? Would you tell her she's so lucky to have such a romantic man in her life, or would you advise her to call the police and take out a restraining order on the creepy vandal/stalker?
They have no chemistry and no reason to be in love other than he's pretty and she smells like food to him. He's mentally abusive and basically beats the living crap out of her the first time they have sex. He's moody, psychotic, and, excuse me for beating the word to death, CREEPY. If someone I knew was dating a guy like this, I'd start sharpening my stake. (Er, if he was a vampire. If he were human, I'd call the cops.)
So I honestly don't get what these people are saying. It's anti-feminist to think abusive relationships are wrong? To think that weird, obsessive 107-year-old jerks dating teenage girls and telling them what to do is wrong is anti-feminist?
Gee, I guess I'm anti-feminist then.
(To follow up on all that, I guess if you have no idea about what Twilight is, (or about the controversy around it,) then you had no idea what I was talking about. Here are some, (slightly biased,)links to things to read if you *do* want to know more about it:
[link] a review
[link] another review
[link] for a quick, colorful summary!
[link] for a longer colorful summary!
[link] for the longest, but possibly most colorful... well, not summary. In depth analysis of the books, but with lots of funny stuff and pictures.
Also, if you do know more or less what I'm talking about, these are amazing:
[link] Growing Up Cullen is awesome. Read all of them and LOVE THEM!
This is also neat:
[link]AND, if you want less biased information, well, you could always try this:
[link]All a little snarky, perhaps, but as I understand it, that's what the internet is for.
Well, that and porn.
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