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⌈ Secret Post #2188 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Yeah, this is a really reasonable comment and I pretty much agree with you - especially on the point about romantic relationships being something people are actually going to have in real life. If I had kids I wouldn't give them the books, that's for sure.

I just have been feeling pretty devils-advocatey about Twilight fans lately because I see so many people being melodramatic about the woeful mental state such fans must be in, and I feel like it's an overreaction and also kinda hypocritical (i.e. is how a non-rabid Twilight fan feels about the books really that different from how I feel about the stupid angst ship fic I read about questionable pairings.)

Yeah, Twilight is problematic and the fact that it became so instantly popular is maybe concerning. But I wish people would a) stop being melodramatic, because although the books are problematic most Twilight Fans are probably still well-adjusted individuals and b) stop using Twilight's problematic nature as a way to show off how good they are at love by going on about how they can't possibly understand those poor maladjusted girls who actually like such horrible sludge.

I think that if people were primarily concerned with the wellfare of developing teenage girls, they would focus their criticism on the book and talk more about how it's marketed and how it became so popular, and how it fits in with other popular media targeted towards young girls. Instead, the criticism is often laden with condescension towards people who like the books and treats the fans themselves as the problem. Which says to me that while they may be concerned about Twilight's societal implications, they are more concerned about feeling superior.