In Case Of Sparkly Vampires

[neo_prodigy]

You know I think I may owe Stephenie Meyer an apology.

Yes, you read that correctly. Yes, go ahead and blink 20 times at that sentence. You see for as much as I snark on the Twilight franchise (and trust snarking on that series has become one of my favorite pastimes), I’ve come to realize that series serves a very practical purpose (aside from

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[ebonytigress]

Oh wow, I've dealt with this in the past (for much too long). I just never knew I was dealing with a real life Edward Cullen.

[awriter]

Ooh. I agree with everything here.

I did have one thing I was curious about, though, regarding the "And don’t be afraid to do it just because you’re a POC or an LGBTQ" bit--what are your thoughts on women?

From my experience, just from having mom call the cops a few times, (and doing it myself, once) I've learned we can sometimes be dismissed as hysterical or lying or not worth the time, especially if it's a repeated abusive thing, like some idiot driving by someone's house with the horn blaring every hour or someone banging on their door and screaming at random intervals throughout the night.

This is not to say all police officers are neglectful in this way, and I wholly advocate calling them if things turn weird.

Anywho. I would love to hear your viewpoint on this.

[neo_prodigy]

Obviously the institutional oppression that is misogyny is in full swing and that goes without saying. You can look at the stats with domestic violence towards women as proof. And yes you’re right, too often I’ve seen women denied justice in this regard and I’ve witnessed firsthand the examples you cited

[jess_faraday]

THANK YOU.

Here I thought I was the only one who, upon reading the opening chapters of the first book thought EW STALKERY STALKER!

[highd]

You aren't crazy. If you read Meyers story that she wrote on her site from Edwards POV. You would read that Edward had been stalking Bella for a while. He went to her house, and oiled up her windows so he could get into her room without being heard and watched her sleep for a month while he was dealing with her odor.

Edward Cullen was a dude with a 109 year old case of blue balls and he went nuts over it.

[phillipalden]

I had an ex-lover that was seriously mentally ill, and he was an "emotional manipulator." "Crazy-Making" was definitely one of his, as was "stalking" after I broke up with him.

He did eventually end up dead by his own hand, but thankfully he didn't come back as a sparkly vampire.

(I also hate the "Twilight" series. I tried watching the first movie and nearly lost my lunch.)

[leoprincess]

You did scare me with that 'apology' bit, but I think you should hold off on delivering it. Meyers did write this sociopath as the 'hero', remember? Apparently this is how she thinks a man demonstrates his deep love for a woman.

Scary stuff, that.

I am, however, grateful for the post. Who knows; you have have saved lives just by deciding to write it.