Comments | zingerella: For Sabotabby

zingerella

For Sabotabby

Dec 02, 2009 18:11

Do I have to read Twilight in order to have an informed opinion of Monica Hesse's theory concerning why smart, literate, feminist women find themselves being bitten by Meyer's execrable prose and frightening worldview [warning, link contains some abelist slurs]?

In "Twilight," Edward Cullen waffled between wooing and eating new girl Bella Swan. He ( Read more... )

sublime madness, ganked from the interwebs, transdimensional transmogrification, ruminations, i don't even like baseball, that would be another "why" question, bump in the night, glitter&wuv, books, navel gazing, sane_safe_consensual_etc

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krinndnz December 2 2009, 23:44:59 UTC

It's a time capsule to the breathless period when the world could literally end depending on whether your lab partner touched your hand...

Your lab partner was made of antimatter? Lucky you.

zingerella December 2 2009, 23:50:24 UTC

I had, quite literally, no lab partner when I was 17, and had not entered the science labs since I was literally 15.

human_loser December 3 2009, 16:19:59 UTC

I think you're usuing literally wrong; usually it accompanies fantastical statements that could never actually be true.

much_ado December 3 2009, 00:42:07 UTC

After all, I like Die Hard movies.

oh ghods... i think i >*heart*< you very, very much :)

zingerella December 3 2009, 00:49:07 UTC

*blush*

They're the classical hero myth interpreted for the modern North American audience. John McClane is clearly the chosen of some deity of civic order or some such.

Also ... BOOM!

sabotabby December 3 2009, 01:31:53 UTC

I was more into writing plays and going to goth clubs and attending Monty Python-themed dinner parties when I was 17 than moping over my lab partner. If I even had a lab partner. I don't think I did.

This is completely the argument my friend, whose literary tastes I typically share, gives for being into Twilight. But to the extent that I'm nostalgic for being 17, I'm nostalgic for an adolescence that bears more resemblance to Buffy (sure, there were beautiful moments, and painful romances, but in the end one's friends were there and you did not ditch them for the romantic interest) than to Bella.

I should not disparage other people's guilty pleasures. I think LOLCats are hilarious.

Also, I am almost done that swashbuckling book and I at the "oh, I need to know how it ends, but I should read slowly because I don't want it to end" stage.

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zingerella December 3 2009, 03:45:36 UTC

For me, it's a matter of having gained some perspective. Some things hurt as much as they did when I was 17. But fewer things. I'm not running around an emotional landscape of broken glass and jagged edges ( ... )

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shelestel December 10 2009, 03:56:37 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHOIT1ROk8 as the poet said.