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Is that some Adam and Eve allegory we've got here?

Dear God I hate this “Twilight” business. Not just because I’m an aspiring novelist, and this trash gets published and put on bestseller lists when it reads like twelve-year-old-girl-fanfiction. But ugh, the misogyny! The weak female lead! The notion that you have to obsess over the person you are with and give up your entire life to them! Not to mention that whole weird violent sex scene in the last book that I keep hearing about.

One of the reasons I set out to write a YA novel last year, was because I was tired of the new literary heroines being stuck-up, cliquey girls who only cared about fashion and boys. At the time I hadn’t heard of the “Twilight” book series, but I kind of wish I did. Maybe it would’ve given me an extra resolve to write a character who was a strong young woman. Definetly not a Bella Swan.

Bella is the main character in these heaping piles of trash books, and the story is told through her perspective. She is new in school, and very pretty, but she doesn’t know it (of course), because she is weird and fragile and trips over things a lot. Now, she meets this vampire dude, and she falls in love with him because he is “sparkly” and has chiseled abs. Seriously, this seems to be the only reason. He is always saving her from trouble, because she is just a silly girl after all, and constantly needs help. Not to mention that, but he is controlling, a stalker who watches her sleep, and he even took the engine out of her car so she couldn’t go see her best friend. But she’s soooo in love with him. I’m really not making this up!

So yes, this is what the young generation of females is gobbling up, for some reason. And oh, don’t get me started on the author, Stephanie Meyer. She tosses off the sexist allegations with the same weird bastardization of feminism rhetoric that Sarah Palin was known for.

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