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5 Reasons why Twilight is bad for teenagers:

1.Bella has only one goal in life.

Yep, you guessed it! Have Edward’s babies. This totally destroys what our mothers and grandmothers have fought for years ago: equal rights for both men and women, which is what we wish to promote to teenagers of this generation. The protagonist in the series is a weak-willed damsel in distress who can’t live without the strong, handsome man of her life. Pwoah! And the thing is that this book is targeted at 14-year-old girls, who are influenced to believe that having absolutely no life goals is perfectly fine, as long as your hot boyfriend still wants to be with you. Twilight is (fictional) proof that girls do not need to get a life to enjoy a comfortable living with a rich, handsome (and dead) dude.

2.  All encompassing love means physical attraction.

I’m sorry, but this is not something we should show to teenage girls experiencing their first puppy love. In the book, the two main characters liked each other first because of Edward’s looks and Bella’s smell. A few chapters in, after a monotonous words exchanged, they declare their love for each other and go off to a deserted forest so that Bella could see his sparkle. Even if the declaration had been too soon, this bit was probably pushing it. The book actually promotes girls to go to far off, deserted places with the man they just started dating, and one that claims himself dangerous at that. No logic at all. What is worse is that teenage girls, blinded by Twilight and its fallacies, would want to copy that and get themselves in all sorts of sticky situations.

3. Twilight promotes self-harm/suicide

“When you think that your dangerous ex, who has lots of mental issues, will never come back to you, go jump off a cliff.” It perfectly fine, because someone will always save you and your love will rush back to your side and wanna marry you. /sarcasm

4. Race issues

It does bother me quite a bit that Stephenie Meyer portrayed the ‘ethereal’ vampires as whites and ‘beastly’ werewolves as a native-American tribe. The vampires are rich and own nice cars, while the wolves are stuck with average houses and an average life. Discrimination, much?

5.Twilight is one piece of literature that should be flushed down the toilet
a)Bella is obviously a Mary-Sue, and an idealized version of SMeyer.

b)Vamps and humans who can’t coexist but still give in to their crazy desires of looove and live happily ever after. Sounds familiar? Plotline is way overused and makes the entire series so corny we’ll need a bucketful of butter to eat it all.

c)No element of mystery. Bella was going to find out slowly about Edward’s real identity, so I don’t think slapping “Edward is a vampire” on the back of the book is a good idea.
d)We don’t need to read about a middle-aged woman’s fantasies about dating both a vampire and a werewolf. We have better things to do.

Amen.

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