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OK, Mzbitca, I’m going there… « random babble… — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:25:24 +0000

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By: Nariel

Nariel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:43:44 +0000

Oh, yeah, and I followed the link at Feministing. Great site.

By: Nariel

Nariel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:43:19 +0000

I am definitely going to be following this blog. I’ve already been taken in by your snarkinness, so prepare yourself for my comments. I read Twilight about 2 1/2 months ago, and found myself utterly obsessed with it for about a week. I was unable to comprehend why, until I read your comparison of the series to bad reality TV. Absolutely true! Thankfully I am no longer obsessed, although I still enjoyed reading it. I can see the flaws in it, both from a feminist and a literary point of view. I hope you keep writing!

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:14:07 +0000

Hey--this is off-topic, but I just wanted to say: thanks for putting me in your blogroll, but the blog you have there is now defunct. AOL Journals closed down a month ago, but I am now keeping my personal blog at The Mind of Genevieve.blogspot.com; and my political blog at UneFemmePlusCourageuse.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:57:23 +0000

I, too, came here from Feministing, and this project looks like it will be both amusing and informative. My 17-year-old sister is a big fan of the books – thankfully not to the point of obsession, but still – and I just can’t bring myself to pick them up when there are so many more worthwhile things I could be reading. So it will be interesting to see a like-minded person taking them on.

By: mzbitca

mzbitca — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:16:49 +0000

Dori
I had heard that there are a lot of parallels to Mormonism in the book but I am not familiar enough with the tenets of the religion to notice them. Thanks for the heads up about the Native Americans subtext

By: Dori

Dori — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:56:02 +0000

I read some of it (didn’t get very far) and it was clear to me at least that Meyers’ Mormon background informed a huge amount of the framing of the story, and not in a good way. In a “oh this social construction that is really damaging to women and young girls is just NATURE!” way.

That and the not so subtle implication that the Native Americans are the lost tribes of Israel…

pet peeves. sorry.

good luck!

By: Margosita

Margosita — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:06:52 +0000

I came over here from Feministe. I’m pretty thrilled you posted. This sounds like a pretty fabulous idea. I’ve never read the Twilight books but after reading some articles and descriptions recently I’ve been coming down pretty hard on them. They sound completely anti-feminist, from what I can tell. Not to mention really poorly written. Honestly, I’m not sure which of those two things offends me more.

“I’m a Whedonista and extreme lover of Harry Potter so my fantasy-teen-vampire-bookseries-moviefranchise space in my brain is pretty well occupied and views things like “Twilight” and “Tru Blood” as nothing more than imposters in the same vein.” THIS, for me, too.

Anyways, I can’t wait to hear your impressions.

By: petpluto

petpluto — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:38:39 +0000

Hi! I found you through feministing, and first and foremost, love the name of your blog.

Secondly, having never read the Twilight series, I can’t really give you much. But I just wanted to let you know that I’m looking forward to reading your posts on the subject, because I too shun Tru Blood and Twilight due to my Whedonista ways.