As most of my peers know, I am not a twilight fan.
As a matter of fact, I am a twilight HATER.
I find the whole Edward/Bella relationship to be vastly unhealthy (hello....he tells her she can't hang out with her best friends, gets her in trouble with her parents, creeps on her when she's sleeping...and oh yeah
wants to EAT her). What bothers me most about the whole thing is that hundreds of thousands of 12-16 year old girls who are just getting into the whole dating scene are idealizing their relationship. they see Edward (the creeper) as the perfect man, and want to have what they share. This terrifies me, because I dated a guy like Edward once, and he ended up being horrendously abusive.
In addition, I think that Stephanie Meyer couldn't write her way out of a paper bag. The books (which I HAVE read, at the request of my twilight-loving friends) are poorly written. The plot is nonsensical, the dialouge is forced, the character development makes no sense....and then there's the sentence structure, the grammar.....ugh.
The point being, the twilight novels give me a headache.
Now, a new point was brought out that I'd like to share with all of you.
I would like to preface this link by stating that I have no qualms whatsoever with the Church of Latter Day Saints. Many of my closest friends are LDS, and I have the utmost respect for their faith. There was a period of my life where I seriously considered joining the church, and through that time, I grew to learn that many of the misconceptions about the church are totally false. Stephanie Meyer is LDS, which is where this all becomes relevant.
That being said, I am a proud supporter of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender rights and equality, and that has always been an issue of much contention between myself and the LDS church. When the LDS church funded many ads against California Proposition 8 last year, I was LIVID.
so, here it is:
how twilight is taking rights from the the gays.
