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Twilight
This is addressed to everyone who says that the Twilight series is trash, and harmful trash at that.
When was the last time you praised art that was aimed at a majority-female audience? When was the last time you praised art that was by a female creator?
If you are incapable of reasonably judging art that fits these two basic criteria, then please shut up about it.
(Note: you don't have to even personally like it, although if you only like art aimed at men and written by men, that's an issue in and of itself. It is common to praise something without personally liking it much: "My friends who like mysteries all seem to like this book." or "This is a good new intro to the subject [which I have studied for twenty years]." or "I loved the way that movie used color to indicate when people were dreaming." or "That book was what made its genre first popular and introduced a number of its core concepts.")
Bonus points: when was the last time you praised anything that is primarily enjoyed by teenage girls?
When was the last time you praised art that was aimed at a majority-female audience? When was the last time you praised art that was by a female creator?
If you are incapable of reasonably judging art that fits these two basic criteria, then please shut up about it.
(Note: you don't have to even personally like it, although if you only like art aimed at men and written by men, that's an issue in and of itself. It is common to praise something without personally liking it much: "My friends who like mysteries all seem to like this book." or "This is a good new intro to the subject [which I have studied for twenty years]." or "I loved the way that movie used color to indicate when people were dreaming." or "That book was what made its genre first popular and introduced a number of its core concepts.")
Bonus points: when was the last time you praised anything that is primarily enjoyed by teenage girls?
Re: yes! (dammit)
I grew up on Heinlein and Asimov and Niven and their ilk[1]. The Twilight series at least a) has a female main character who exists for purposes other than simpering at the real characters and b) has a female character, period.
[1] I still like their ilk, sometimes. I just-- the people who are flipping out about the bad-for-girls messages in Twilight are the people who hastily change the topic if I dare mention that any aspect of a blockbuster movie was in any way gender slanted. Concern troll, much?