[ SECRET POST #1848 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1848 ⌋


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Comments

[checkerblob.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I know that Twilight is very problematic. A relationship like Edward and Bella's would be beyond fucked up in real life. You know what else is fucked up in real life? War. That doesn't stop people from reading violent fantasy books with epic battles and watching violent movies and talking about how they want to have adventures like that, even though the real-life equivalent of said adventures would be war, which is not something fun or romantic at all.
I'm not even trying to make a point here, I don't even think the above paragraph was very coherent. ma;lsdkmcc;ejrn

[darkmanifest.livejournal.com]

Makes perfect sense to me. People take something they know would be really fucked up in real life and shine it up in fiction (or sparkle it up, if you will), because it's fantasy. It's fun because it's fake.

[(Anonymous)]

I get what you're saying, but I don't really think that war and abusive relationships are entirely comparable in fiction. This is because most every person from every walk of life will have some sort of romantic or sexual connection with someone else throughout the course of their lifetime. Very few people comparatively will experience war first hand.

When put in a positive light in fiction, both war and relationship abuse are glorified, but the abuse story has the potential to be more dangerous because it is more likely to actually happen to the person reading it, and they might not come to realize that this is a bad thing. It's much easier to emulate the dynamics of a fictional relationship than it is to do the same with the politically, culturally and socially complex phenomenon that it war. Also, because Bella is such a flat character who is incredibly easy for girls of many different ages to insert themselves into her story, it becomes even more problematic because they might actually see themselves in her shoes and thus believe that a guy like Edward is the ideal man.

If you realize it is merely escapist fantasy, then great. No problem with that. It's the myriad number of people who don't seem to realize that the few sweet gestures he does for her do not make up for the problematic content and thus make it romantic.

[checkerblob.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's very true. I don't think what I said was a perfect or even very good analogy, it was just, like, thought-vomit. I completely understand what you're saying though, and I do agree.