re: #520 Boondock St. Bender

ACK!twilight…grumble…time was vampires were supposed to be evil creatures of the night…then ann rice turned them into the high school girls gay friend…

old man cane waving rant over)

Yeah! But I love Buffy, so…
Read this piece on Twilight kind of recently. The author is a bit of a nut, I think, (I think I’ve run across some other pieces by her in the past) but this really creeped me out:

Meyers continues this miseducation of our youth by having her teen heroine, Bella (yes, the heroine’s name is Bella and she’s beautiful) wait till she’s married to have sex. Of course, Bella wants to have sex before she marries her vampire boyfriend Edward, BUT sex with her vampire boyfriend will KILL her since he’s so super powerful and she’s just a weak, delicate flower. When the two are finally married, right after her high school graduation, they do have sex before she’s a vampire and it very nearly does kill her (there’s a lot of bruising and a down pillow torn to shreds by Edward in an effort not to rip her head off). Then (SPOILER ALERT) Bella becomes pregnant (have sex even once and…) and the baby is going to KILL her since it’s not fully human.

Abortion? No, never. She insists on having the baby no matter what. Oy vey. Could it get worse? Yes, because in the end, the baby is born, she dies and then is brought back to life, well, not life, but undeadness, as a vampire, the child, a girl, is perfect in every way and all who see her fall madly in love with her, and the “problem” of teen pregnancy, potentially deadly sexual acts, and marrying across class and species lines goes away.

Except for one thing: the daughter is immediately betrothed to her best friend, a werewolf by the name of Jacob. So a bit of bizarro pedophilia is thrown in just in case the sane parents reading this dreck with their children weren’t sufficiently grossed out by the crazy Christian messages about sex and pregnancy permeating the series.

Yikes.