Image source, Ashley Faith. Ashley says the Twilight books are the escapism we need in Parts of Stephenie Meyer's new book were leaked online, but now she's decided the time is right to release it. She became a big fan of the books when she was Image source, Dani W. Related Topics. So when I told her we were going to focus on Twilight on GeekMom, I asked if she'd write an article to say why she got so hooked on the books in the first place and why so much of the criticism of the series angers her, even though she still truly hates Breaking Dawn.
I'm going to start with three generally agreed opinions about Twilight. One, Twilight is not that well-written. Two, it is anti-feminist, Edward and Bella do have an unhealthy relationship, the role of the female is diminished to child bearer, and young girls should probably not be idealizing it or wanting to be like the characters. Three, the Twilight haters are just as bad as the Twilight lovers.
The plot is nearly nonexistent, the main characters are one-dimensional, the historical references are very inaccurate, and the most interesting stories are all in the background. The book is not a very well-written novel by objective standards. Horror May Queen. Word webslinger. See more. Sarah El-Mahmoud. Your Daily Blend of Entertainment News. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands.
Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors. And we all know the best way to defend your hobby is to find a way to make money from it. Constance: Aja brings up a great point here: Twilight was such a giant franchise that it had a real effect on pop culture. So what do you think is its most lasting legacy? Before Twilight , they were considered silly and fun and not really worth critiquing, but the criticism of Twilight was so heated and so pointed that it ended up influencing the discourse around practically all relationships built on the Bella-Edward model.
And The Vampire Diaries , the next big vampire romance franchise after Twilight , went out of its way to subvert any Twilight comparisons with its central romance between Stefan and Elena. I saw The Hunger Games get treated a lot more seriously as a franchise because of its apparent critique of income inequality the movie came out just months after Occupy Wall Street , and because Katniss was in so many ways the anti-Bella: tough, resourceful, independent.
Would it be a stretch to call movies like Brooklyn and Lady Bird part of the legacy of Twilight? But they fill a place in my heart that Twilight once did, for the way they show that the stories of young women and their romantic choices are important and worthy of deep study. Alex: The world would be a better, kinder place if everyone was required to watch Brooklyn. When Fifty Shades came out, article after article depicted and chided its readers as desperate, horny middle-aged women.
But the criticism of it seemed amplified because women, particularly women of a certain age, were really into it. Poor moms.
I will add that Twilight sparked a weird purity backlash in YA literature whereby depictions of sex and sexuality between teens became newly taboo, in part because of all the hand-wringing over Twilight and its ilk. And crucially, by framing shipping as a pastime akin to rooting for a sports team, they made shipping into something harmless and fun rather than yet another toxic, galling thing to shame fans for doing.
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