Time to thrash Twilight
Haven’t read the books, haven’t seen the movies, but this is funny,
Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From ‘Twilight’, with the stress on prepping up for abusive relationships:
1. If a boy is aloof, stand-offish, ignores you or is just plain rude, it is because he is secretly in love with you — and you are the point of his existence.
2. Secrets are good — especially life-threatening ones.
3. It’s OK for a potential romantic interest to be dimwitted, violent and vengeful — as long as he has great abs.
4. If a boy tells you to stay away from him because he is dangerous and may even kill you, he must be the love of your life. You should stay with him since he will keep you safe forever.
Go through enough of that and you’ll be ready for the Church of Oprah when you’re older and want to blame all that self-inflicted victimization on some guy.
Over at Big Hollywood Alicia Colon writes about Appreciating True Erotica in Cinema, as opposed to putting yourself through any sort of Twilight.
Tags: Fausta's blog, Twilight, vampires
November 28th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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November 28th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
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November 29th, 2009 at 1:23 am
I just can’t get to worked up over a popular movie addressed to a group of addled teens. Seems that such manly men as Frankie Avalon, Fabian and even Neil Sedaka were heartthrobs in the early 60′s before they were supplanted by the even more muscular Beatles and Davey Jones of The Monkees. Besides, as it was explained to me once, this kind of adulation is accompanied by no stuttering, zits or even fumbling in the back seat of the car.
November 29th, 2009 at 4:55 am
I’m with you, Bella and Edward don’t have what it takes to stay together forever: he dumps her, then almost kills himself, ending up by asking her to marry him: this will confuse generations of girls who had just gotten used to He’s just not that into you….
November 29th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I remember being in elementary and jr high school when the VC Andrews series came out and was the Twilight book series of my better half’s generation. Then they made the Flowers in the Attic in the motion-sickness picture and our girlfriends dragged us to the movie to see what a GREAT work of literature they grew up with. As they rolled the credits we were horrified shocked, disgusted, left looking forward saying “WTF?!?!” and “Eeeeoooo” and seriously concerned with our GFs mental states’.
Why do I have the feeling that today’s boyfriends will be going through the same emotional trauma that we did — realizing that girls can be really really really messed up, and they have no business trash talking the comic books and, later, the graphic novels we were into…
November 29th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Oh, yes, I remember the VC Andrews fad. One time during a long airport delay I ended up buying one of the books and ended up baffled as to why they were so successful