Anti-Feminism Affects Vampires Too!
There's no doubt that the Twilight series by author Stephenie Meyer has made a huge impact on the teenage literary population. Its rather original take on the vampire myth has lead many to cite it as a prime example of modern literature, and its themes of true love and devotion are extremely popular amongst many young fans. It is so popular, in fact, that it is being made into a movie of the same title, to be released this fall on an international scale.
To put it bluntly, though, I've never understood the Twilight series. I refuse to call them a saga - Lord of the Rings was a saga. Twilight is not. I've read all four books and slowly have developed a quiet resentment for them, which occasionally comes out as rants - I safely store these on my computer, and most of them have never seen the light of day. To me, the vampire genre died when Buffy and Angel did, and nothing will ever be able to live up to their legacy. However, to summarize: my main reasons for disliking the Twilight series are that it is badly written, embarrassingly cliché, and most of all, anti-feminist - the subject of this article.
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