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[redbrickrose]

So Dark Knight was beyond awesome and hit so many of my narrative buttons that I actually lost track. And I saw Mamma Mia last night with southernbangel and loved it completely because ANY movie/plot is improved approximately 200% by characters bursting into song. Also, Amanda Seyfried, be my girlfriend

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[lettered]

YAY apartment. Um. I hope you don't have TB.

I don't think the article is saying vampires themselves are role models, but that Bella/Edward is a role model. And to some extent I get it, because there are little enough love stories teens get really into in which sex is postponed until after marriage, so if that's what you want to teach your kid, it's hard to show them that it's an acceptable thing to do. But it's stupid because that's a very by-the-letter reading of Twilight--it's all about sex, even if they never have it. It's also stupid in the broader context, of course--that even if the 'ship were a role model for not having premarital sex (which again, it isn't really since their whole relationship seems to be based on physicality), it's an extremely unhealthy and borderline abusive relationship.

[redbrickrose]

Thanks! And I just had to get the test because otherwise school wouldn't let me enroll. *g* I'm sure it will be negative.

No I get that they're talking about Bella/Edward, it was more the broader context I was talking about. The creepy stalkerness, the other unhealthy pieces that the article doesn't even mention. This is not a relationship to emulated! But as long as they're not having explicit premarital sex, I guess that's okay?

[darksylvia]

La, the Panic DVD: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4l3wyy

I read a chapter of Twilight. I was bored by the heroine, but didn't stick around long enough to meet the hero.

[redbrickrose]

Yay! Thank you!

I'm only one or two chapters in. I don't know what I think yet, but I've heard so much about it that I'll probably read the whole thing.

[femmenerd]

ANY movie/plot is improved approximately 200% by characters bursting into song.

Yes! I agree! And good luck with this apartment stuff - seems to have been a big hassle as you were wringing your hands about it before I left and that was weeks ago.

Um, the idea of the Twilight books as role modeling a healthy romantic life to young girls is quite disturbing to me, vampires or no, but you have an excellent point.

[redbrickrose]

Thanks! I think the apartment stuff is working out, but it definitely has been going on for awhile.

The more I read of Twilight the more freaked out I am by the idea of ANYONE using anything in them as a relationship model. I mean, I'm finding it compulsively readable, for sure, but this is NOT a relationship you want to hold up as an ideal in any way.