Quit your whining

You know what I'm tired of? I'm tired of people bitching and moaning about Twilight and Twitards (a term I despise!) and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and blahblahblah. It's really amazing how invested some people are in complaining about something they claim to want nothing to do with. If you have no plans on seeing it or reading the books, then how the heck is it hurting you? Some say that it has a negative impact on the horror genre. I say it affects the horror genre as much as Once Bitten. I think more horror fans are calling these films horror than are fans of the films. One can argue all day and night about whether these books and films would even be considered horror. I could argue the same thing about a lot of films. Let the Right One In (a film constant used as a counterpoint to Twilight) comes to mind as it isn't so focused on the horror. It's pretty much a love story (in the movie, at least. I honestly could not get through the book.) There are genres within the genre. Romantic horror or tween horror horror porn.

If one is gonna get all riled up about the romanticization (not a real word, but go with it), then folks should be tearing Francis Ford Coppolla (sp?) a brand new asshole. He actually slapped Bram Stoker's name on his film purporting to be telling the story as Stoker wrote it. Apparently Francis doesn't know that some of us actually, you know, READ Bram Stoker's Dracula. But somehow, it is ALL Stephanie Myers fault that vampires are being neutered and watered down for teenaged girls. Meanwhile, people act like teenaged girls who read these books/watch these films are brain-damaged and delusional. Educated people I know who are feminists seem to think that the Twilight series has the ability all by itself to make girls dumb and unable to think for themselves. It is amazing. I know many people just hate ANYTHING marketed to your women. It is rarely, if ever, good enough. But it gets to a point where all the complaining seems to be an attack on girls and young women and that infuriates me.