re: #307 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Twilight’s basically soft porn for teenage girls who haven’t yet graduated up to Anne Rice novels.

Which is not all that bad.

There’s a woman who’s doing a page-by-page deconstruction of Twilight on her blog. It’s fun, but one thing that does keep coming up is this idea that girls will take the very screwed-up relationships in the book seriously, and try to marry guys like Edward Cullen or something.

Most of the girls I taught who liked the books are basically using them as fantasy fodder. They have no intention of finding an abusive sparkly vampire in real life, it’s just erotica.