Tennessee Republicans hold a book burning to destroy Harry Potter, Twilight, and other "demonic" titles | Boing Boing
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The simple banning of Maus from schools apparently wasn’t enough for Tennessee Republicans. The time has come to burn books that displease them. Global Vision Bible Church pastor Greg Locke, …

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  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Burning Harry Potter and Twilight?

    Very Critical support I guess :shrug-outta-hecks: hope they get cancer from the fumes

      • YouKnowIt [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Based on what? A shitty fanfic with Mormon sexuality?

      • femboi [they/them, she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Doesn't the last book end with her promising her infant daughter to the werewolf guy or something?

          • femboi [they/them, she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Just looked it up, according to the wiki Jacob "imprinted" on the newborn, and will be "a brother figure to Renesmee until she comes of age, by which time she may develop romantic feelings for him" 🤮

              • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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                3 years ago

                There’s other YA fic targeted to girls that didn’t get nearly as much hate, Divergent and Hunger Games for example. I think a lot of the hate was just because of what a massive fucking cultural phenomenon it was. Seriously, I don’t think most people here remember, but it was like fucking Beatles fever but for bad YA lit. You couldn’t turn on the news and not hear something about “Twilight Craze”.

                Also it is very poorly written, even for YA lit.

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        The author portrays her male characters as strong, powerful, sexy, in-charge guys and her female characters (other then the vampires) weak, insecure, dependent on the guys, and the stereotypical “damsels in distress.” However, Meyer claims Bella is a feminist, defining feminism as simply a woman who has the right to make her own choices. This may be true, but Meyer’s characters are a strange “combination of modern sensibility and ambience with traditional ideas about gender” (Sax). Bella's ideas about gender roles are decidedly un-feminist. Bella may make (some of) her own choices, such as sacrificing herself to save her mother (in the first book) and falling in love with a Vampire, choosing to give up everything for him. However, she is totally dependant on Edward. He is her crutch and she needs him (a man) in her life to complete her. There is a huge lack of equality between them. She represents, in my opinion, the stereotypical bare-footed, pregnant woman in the kitchen of the 1950’s and ‘60’s. The only difference is that she has spunk and isn’t pregnant until the last book.

        It has some bad politics in it.