WTF is Twilight? And WTF is up with the Hype?

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by patteeu

If the book were primarily aimed at boys, I could see it as an abstinence message, but it's core audience seems to be female. Personally, I think it's a dangerous message to tell young girls that the boy is going to watch out for their best interests when it comes to sex.

Not only that, but it encourages a fascination by girls with the dangerous/dark boys. Edward is, literally, within seconds of ripping Bella's throat out at any given moment due to some weird blood-type fatal attraction that makes her particular blood like heroin for a junkie. So, they're constantly dancing this very dangerous dance where she could die at any moment, but she just can't stay away from him because he's oh so dreamy.

On top of that, Edward is constantly in control of the relationship. He can kiss her. She, though, can't kiss him. I've read the first book (it's part of my job to read this crap, sorry), and I didn't really get much of an abstinence message from it. I did, however, get very disturbing notions about gender roles and sexual power relationships from it. On top of that, the writing is atrocious.

That being said, it turned a lot of kids on to reading.