January 11, 2012
"I’d argue that Bella’s desires are direct responses to the patriarchy we actually live in. In fact, Meyer has created for her heroine an inverted version of our unjust society. In this invented, inverted world, Bella is allowed to want sex, and vocalize it, and initiate it, while her partner is the gatekeeper who makes sure she is safe and married before she gets “hurt.” In her world, the men around her urge her to abort her fetus for her own safety, but she gets to “choose” to deliver it even though it kills her. In her world, her boyfriend can urge her to attend college and better herself while she can push for an early marriage—and be right! In her world, she can reject her body and trade it in for a new one that is agile, strong, lithe. Her choices are consistently to fall into the arms of the patriarchy and trust that it will catch her, and her faith is validated: she gets a perfect husband, angelic child, new body."

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The Bloody, Twisted, Inverted World of Twilight: Violent Vampire Sex, Demon-Babies and Overwhelming Female Desire | | AlterNet

I will never get tired of thinking about Bella’s lust.

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Filed under: twilight Bella Swan feminism 
November 30, 2011
millionsmillions: “Hating Twilight is so 2009, and with the newest installment, Breaking Dawn, ruling the box office, the juggernaut hardly needs defenders. But the virulent seriousness of the haters is surprising. Many of the reviews have heaped disproportionate and moralizing scorn on an Oscar-winning director’s fantasy enactment of a young girl’s dreams and fears. Kristen Stewart and her co-stars have been excoriated for their “sullen” and “wooden” performances despite receiving respectable and sometimes highly favorable reviews in other movies in which they have starred.” — The Harsh Bigotry of Twilight Haters by Erika Christakis Reblogged for “Hating Twilight is so 2009.”

millionsmillions:

“Hating Twilight is so 2009, and with the newest installment, Breaking Dawn, ruling the box office, the juggernaut hardly needs defenders. But the virulent seriousness of the haters is surprising. Many of the reviews have heaped disproportionate and moralizing scorn on an Oscar-winning director’s fantasy enactment of a young girl’s dreams and fears. Kristen Stewart and her co-stars have been excoriated for their “sullen” and “wooden” performances despite receiving respectable and sometimes highly favorable reviews in other movies in which they have starred.”

— The Harsh Bigotry of Twilight Haters by Erika Christakis

Reblogged for “Hating Twilight is so 2009.”

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Filed under: hating twilight is so 2009 bella swan twilight film feminism 
November 22, 2011
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Since the iconography of this movie is so heightened, do you ever worry about the allegorical ways people may interpret it? Like Bella making excuses for the bruises her husband gave her after sex …


The sex was consensual. She asked for it, and she wants more. As long as it’s consensual, she is not a victim — in fact, she’s the aggressor here. Is it unnerving to see bruises on a woman? Sure, of course it is. I flinch a little bit when I see it myself. But you can see something through any perspective you want, and I just choose as much as possible to perceive and portray her as strong.

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— The Spoiler Interview: Breaking Dawn’s Screenwriter Discusses the Sex Scene, the Bloody Birth, and Feminism — Vulture

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Filed under: bella swan strong female characters strong female characters? non-answers 
November 21, 2011
"Bella sees herself as average, clumsy, awkward. But she sees Edward in god-like terms. Aubrey wishes Bella would take a stand — “not so seduced by the vampire.” Aubrey is also mildly annoyed by Bella’s inner voice that’s “so critical of herself.” Still, Edward is obsessed with Bella and “that’s what is so intoxicating. I’m not saying the readers of the books want to be the characters. They don’t want to get married right out of high school. Instead, it’s the subtleties of the message, defining your life around the attention of a super human."

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Academics blast final instalment of Twilight… - Toronto.com

It’s not so much that they are wrong, I just feel like Twilight academics must get so bored with this kind of moral correction.

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