Fuck Yeah! Feminism

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What’s wrong with Bella Swan?

She is not smart, interesting, kind or graceful.  She does she stand up for herself; She stays with a man who vows to protect her while simultaneously tells her that his love may force him to kill her.

It’s hard to figure this one out. People actually pay to watch movies about an emotionally and borderline physically abusive boyfriend who breaks into his lover’s house to watch her sleep. They must enjoy fueling the sales of books that have heavy misogynistic themes- the very themes, by the way, that writers for centuries have been trying to overcome.

What’s her appeal? Colette Dowling, author of “The Cinderella Complex tries to explore the subconscious of people like the ones that buy into the Twilight empire. She suggests that the unconscious resistance to independence could be a latent fear in some teens and young adults that they will not be able to take care of themselves fully, thus needing a man.

So with this theory I would have to think that the young readers that enjoy Twilight are, in a sense, fantasizing about or (Ill even go so far to say) mentally preparing, for the road that they see ahead of themselves. Perhaps Twilight books give it’s readers a sense of false protection.

What’s your take?

And heres some graphics a Harry Potter fan made: