Emma Sea’s Reviews > Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise > Status Update

It's ridiculous to read an essay on fan sites when the author has to put [sic] after every misspelling in an excerpt i.e. after every. single. word.

Throwing your book against the wall does not indicate a special level of fannish devotion. Let ze who has not hurled a book cast the first stone.

eh, the essays about the fans are proving less interesting to me than the essays about the books. Also: erroneous logic. Just because 45% of the audience for a Twilight screening are aged over 25 does not mean 45% of the film's fans are aged over 25. It might mean you've got an audience full of this kid, who isn't even old enough to go to the bathroom alone.

Mind. Blown. So Edward's deepest desire is to drink Bella's blood. It's in his biological nature: that's what he is supposed to do. But by mastering his raw desire, suppressing it, and ignoring the demands of his body, forcing it to be subordinate to what he knows is the moral thing to do, he is accepted into the loving embrace of a nuclear family.

Remind you of anything?

Sex, death, desire, and the grotesque female body . . . wheeeeee!

Woah, that's one big knapsack Bella's carrying. I had no idea Twilight was so heinously racist.

* defend against

What a disappointing chapter. I dont think you can defend a feminist critique of Bella Swan by saying, "look, Dracula was anti-women too!"