I just finished reading Twilight and I was going to write a long, ranty post on all the things about it that I find extremely disturbing. Then I did a quick Google search and realised that people have been there and done that already.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-seltzer/twilight-sexual-longing-i_b_117927.html
http://thechicktionary.com/post/60724571/twilight-as-fundie-girl-wet-dream-lit-spoilers
http://psa.blastmagazine.com/2008/08/16/twilight-sucks-and-not-in-a-good-way/
http://psa.blastmagazine.com/2008/08/23/twilight-a-follow-up-and-a-promise/
Who in their right mind would allow teenage girls to read this [...]
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Bookshops are magical places.
A teenage boy stutters as he tries to explain to his professor father what the genre term ‘gay fiction’ involves and why he is browsing so near it. His father looks mystified at the sci-fi and graphic novel titles and wonders out loud what Buddha has to do with the comic industry. [...]
