The general multi-purpose Twilight hatred thread [Garlic within].

[Stu]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/kingofthering/twilightika.jpg

You all know it.

[Captain.Remy]

It shouldn't even have started. :nono:

[Tom4784]

Originally posted by Stu
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/kingofthering/twilightika.jpg

You all know it.

lol :laugh:

reminds me of twhylight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQCFlXzKbM8

[Shaun]

Twilight = ew. [not the member. she's :love:]

[pinkmichk]

:laugh2:

[Stu]

AUGH. I can’t– I just…My god. This is…

This is the cinematic equivalent of an asteroid about to hit the ****ing Earth, people. It’s huge, it’s ugly, it’s horrible, and if you have any sense at all you should run shrieking away from it as quickly as you can. And like any apocalyptic abomination that’s about to destroy culture and the last vestiges of what make humanity worth preserving, there are some mad, frothing maniacs who embrace the rapture and worship the coming doom. We’ve been fortunate enough so far to avoid a real Twilight fan invasion, because I’ve been on other message boards and you’ve not seen such a pack of rabid, snarling jagoffs so willing to engage in bitter, pointless flamewars over this.

It’s a perfect storm of co-mingling fan-worship, too. You’ve got the teenage girl demographic, infatuated with this…****ing vapid, vacant pasty-faced asshole, with that face you just want to ram into a men’s room doorknob until his teeth litter the ground like bloody chiclets. It’s not that he’s a pretty boy– we hate John Cena enough for that, I guess– it’s that garbage vampire-chic aura, that godawful brooding intensity, that mysterious “I’m the biggest, sexiest mistake you’d ever make, ladies, because I’m ****ing dangerous” scowl that makes all the women drool.

It’s got all those goth-heads hooked, too. Some people just never get tired of it. I promised myself I wouldn’t use the term “emo” unless it was absolutely necessary, but what else do you call an entire genre based around a pale, dreary bore who always drones on about his own existential angst, his eternal torment, his alienation from human society, and the constant struggle to contain the beast of his infinite rage forever crawling in his skin, lest it surface and harm those he loves? Come to think of it, what is with all of this vampire worship, anyway? Vampire stories are lame, and they were lame even when Anne Rice shat her oversexualized Mary Sue fiction all over bookstores. After that, we had to endure ****ing Anita Blake, and now this?

It boggles my mind to even imagine that, as bad as the Anita Blake stories are, Twilight is far, far worse. And all I did was read a sample chapter online. It’s so bad, that even hearing summaries of the plot can evoke snorts of derision. My mom used to watch daytime soaps that had less ham-handed melodrama and less-disturbing sexual liaisons. This madness has to stop, and if you don’t believe me, just keep watching. The Twilight movies are coming, and people, you are going to see some sad, depraved mother****ers buying enough tickets to keep it at #1 in the box office for months.

http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/

I want to marry Spoony & have his babies. His Final Fantasy VIII series is nothing short of incredible, too :lovedup:.

[LemonJam]

PMSL Truths.

[Shaun]

...I love that quote.

[Stu]

Thread rebranded :wink:.

[Captain.Remy]

I never thought we would get worse than High School Musical...but we did thanks to T******* (banned word) :bigsmile:

[Harry!]

read (http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Twilight_(book))

Thanks Stu for the link to the main page.

[Stu]

Originally posted by Harry.
read (http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Twilight_(book))

Thanks Stu for the link to the main page.
No problem.

[Shaun]

Twilight Time for Feminism?

by Rose O’Malley, Program Assistant
National Women’s Law Center

Leonard Sax, single-sex education advocate and author of books such as Why Gender Matters, claims in a recent column that the success of the Twilight series among girls and young women proves that young people are rejecting feminism and yearning for traditional gender roles.

The Twilight series, for those without teenage daughters or access to the New York Times bestsellers list, consists of four books by Stephanie Meyer about a normal, clumsy girl named Bella who falls in love with an oh-so-perfect vampire boy, Edward. The books are extremely popular, almost exclusively with teenagers and young women, and the first book in the series is being made into a movie to be released this Fall.

The books are also blatantly traditional, almost Victorian, in their portrayals of gender. Bella, the main character, is a passive klutz who constantly needs to be rescued, while Edward is a brooding strongman who watches and protects her every move, even while she sleeps. Their love is epic and intense, overcoming werewolf love-triangles, among other supernatural interruptions, before the inevitable happily-ever-after.

Embarrassing admission: I have a major weakness for young adult sci-fi and fantasy that Harry Potter alone cannot satisfy. So yes, as a 23-year-old who should probably know better, I read the Twilight books. Shockingly, I found them…problematic. Bella is one weak heroine, nowhere near as interesting as Hermione Granger, or any one of the many kick-ass women in Tamora Pierce’s books, and I often found myself wanting to slap her instead of root for her. Edward’s “romantic” gestures were too controlling for me to find them appealing and his insistence that he couldn’t turn Bella into a vampire or have sex with her until they got married was too clearly a cry against sex before marriage. And let’s not even get into the final book, with its implied message that all women (including teenage brides who only got married so they could have sex with their vampire sweethearts) want is a husband and a child, college be damned.

I could go on, and in fact, I’ve spent long hours with similarly-minded friends discussing the series and just why we find it disturbing. Unlike Mr. Sax, however, I don’t have a vested interest in boys and girls naturally falling into established gender roles, and so I’m not going to try to give these books universal importance. But as someone who was a teenage girl not that long ago, it’s easy to see why these books are popular, and it has nothing to do with the rejection of feminism or traditional gender roles being inherent. I know when I was 12, I would have been more likely to have found the idea of the coolest, most popular, incidentally immortal, guy in school loving imperfect me appealing enough to ignore the politics behind the writing. But then I grew up, just as Twilight’s readers will grow up, and realized that the real world is nothing like books, and that it’s a lot more satisfying to be my own woman than a damsel in distress.

Do I wish that these books weren’t quite so popular, and that young women today would choose to borrow my Buffy DVDs and my What Would Xena Do? bracelet instead of swoon over the cold, stoic Edward? Of course I do, but I’m not overly concerned about today’s teenagers and young women, who continue to reject traditional gender roles and expectations time and time again. I think, unlike Mr. Sax, they can distinguish the fantasy from reality.

[Twilight]

Originally posted by Shaun
Twilight = ew. [not the member. she's :love:] Awww thank you:lovedup: Lmao at the fact i though this topic was about me

[Ninastar]

LMFAO at first post. Even though i <3 it. x

[Matt]

Originally posted by Captain.Remy
I never thought we would get worse than High School Musical...but we did thanks to T******* (banned word) :bigsmile:

To call it worse than High School Musical is an insult.

But yes, it's terrible. :thumbs: