I HATE TWILIGHT

Now I'm going to talk about Twilight. 

Okay so this may SEEM like its irrelevant to my job, but its NOT because Twilight is actually anathema to human rights, and I'M GONNA TELL YOU WHY!

I wish I had a copy of the book with me right now, so I could pull out specific passages but

a) i don't and

b) I don't hate it enough for this to be a book report, its a rag that isn't deserving of that level of effort and I want to finish writing this in under ten minutes.

Basically, it can be seen as a fun piece of junk reading, fair enough, and there is nothing wrong with that. But my problem with it is that plenty of girls are reading it and thinking that this "vampire" is the epitome of masculinity and that the relationship between the two main characters is something they should strive for. The entire piece of crap is a metaphor for sexual abstinence, and demonizes normal human sexuality on the whole. Furthermore, the main female character is constantly noting and apologizing for her inadequacies, inadequacies which are dealt with when her overbearing boyfriend quite literally flies in to the picture and saves her time and time again. She creates a world where the woman is incapable of fending for herself, and is the source of temptation and sin. 

Politically its a nightmare because Stephanie Meyer is a member of the Mormon church, which takes a portion of each congregation members' income. The Mormon Church was one of the biggest contributers to the Yes on Prop 8 campaign, which passed in 2008 and therefore facilitated retrograde motion for human rights. 

And lets be real here, its just a crappy piece of writing. I don't think a page actually goes by where this poor excuse for a writer doesn't describe the chiseled abs of her vampire leading man, or the intensity of the characters' contrived adolescent obsession with each other that is simultaneously devoid of any lust. She took the sex out of vampire lore, hell, she took the vampires out of vampire lore. Call me crazy for criticizing the fictitious traits she gives a fictitious creature, but COME ON, they cant SPARKLE IN THE DAYLIGHT. 

I really don't know why this makes me so angry, there is plenty of sexist crap out there that I am happy to ignore. I just hope that the vapid  religious nut who wrote it will take her millions and retire from the world of writing. Or at least take a writing class so that she can no longer inflict  work like this on the world.