tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054176333123768144.post7111380417944471510..comments2024-02-29T00:47:55.041-08:00Comments on Megan Bostic's Creative Chaos: Top four things I hate about Twilight. #4Megan Bostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811715491350987530noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054176333123768144.post-83863154572900504472010-01-19T09:17:15.455-08:002010-01-19T09:17:15.455-08:00Your final point describes exactly why I can't...Your final point describes exactly why I can't like these books or recommend them to my own daughter when she's older. I've been Bella. It's not a place any girl should have to be, and I would hate for her to have the same pain and degradation I experienced as a teenager at the hands of a vain psychopath idealized and seen as something to strive for in a relationship. It's the kind of thing that women have a hard enough time getting over without some rabidly popular series of novels making it seem ideal to be treated like crap or obsess over someone who treats you like crap to the point of completely ostracizing oneself from life, friends, and family. If Meyer had brought attention to the tortured mindset of teenage girls as she has here, but instead constructed a story that told them the importance of being strong, smart, and independent, and not allowing oneself to be manipulated by the strange whims of a dark, mysterious hottie, the series would have earned some of my admiration, even if I think she couldn't write herself out of a wet paper bag. ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07856346021932036387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054176333123768144.post-29375645432979920762010-01-18T18:09:07.229-08:002010-01-18T18:09:07.229-08:00"The characters are flat and not very interes..."The characters are flat and not very interesting."<br /><br /><br />YEP!Steffan Piperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06094775013771367276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054176333123768144.post-30550902038714139922010-01-18T10:44:56.894-08:002010-01-18T10:44:56.894-08:00It's true...Bella's the WORST role model f...It's true...Bella's the WORST role model for girls ever...yet sadly girls ID with her because they think they're as tortured (but not as stupid or pathetic)...it's weird how they can tease out the bits they like and don't like.<br /><br />And WHO would pick Edward over Jacob, anyway? That's right, those ladies who don't want distant, dismissive, "I know what's best for you men"...that's like, what, 10-15% of women...more Jacobs for the rest of us.<br /><br />:)Jaruciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09423622523128180916noreply@blogger.com