Why Twilight Was Never Good
Added 2024-02-20 20:00:06 +0000 UTCAddressing the sexism against Twilight doesn't mean erasing the problems with the books. And boy ... there are a lot of those.
Sources:
π"Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative" by Grietje Dresen {https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwtb8.14}
π"TWILIGHT" IS NOT GOOD FOR MAIDENS: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE FAMILY IN STEPHENIE MEYER'S "TWILIGHT" SERIES by ANNA SILVER {https://www.jstor.org/stable/29533972}
π "My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, "Perfect" Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance" by Ananya Mukherjea {https://www.jstor.org/stable/23416381}
π "Twilight's Heteronormative Reversal of the Monstrous: Utopia and the Gothic Design" by Kelly Budruweit
{https://www.jstor.org/stable/26321204}
π "Civilized Vampires Versus Savage Werewolves Race and Ethnicity in the Twilight Series" by Natalie Wilson
π"DO MORMON MOMS DREAM OF MONSTROUS GODS?" STEPHENIE MEYERβS TWILIGHT MYTH AS MORMON HEROINEβS JOURNEY" By Maxine Hanks
{https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/157-26-30.pdf}
Comments
Canβt wait for the Tolkien video!
Uriah Kabemba
2024-02-25 05:14:37 +0000 UTCI loved this video. I think your end message about how critiquing media doesn't have to mean robbing the enjoyment of it important. Being able to critique the media I have enjoyed over my life has been a critical part of growing my tastes and evolving.
Anaubrey Shannon
2024-02-23 02:22:03 +0000 UTCI loved this video! And your message at the end is really important and appreciated. I'm going to be sharing that with a few people once it's publicly available.
Allison Wolf
2024-02-21 16:52:25 +0000 UTC"Bella is performing the right kind of womanhood, the white - I mean the *right* kind of femininity." I mean both, tbh. She is a constant white maiden. Also you are soooo right about the other women in twilight. They are all the "other girls" that Bella isn't like ans that's as deep as it goes.
Charlotte Sisman
2024-02-21 08:08:24 +0000 UTCoooof loved this video! very well put together.
anna
2024-02-21 02:39:18 +0000 UTCI'd recognize those purple walls anywhere! Looking forward to that appearance as well
bub
2024-02-20 23:36:40 +0000 UTCSPLINTER OF THE MINDS EYE!!! That takes me BACK! yesss.
sirathena
2024-02-20 21:15:04 +0000 UTC
