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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?
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Where is all the concern-trolling about what boys will learn from Transformers? Or from the Sharpe novels? Neither of these are exactly showing healthy male-female relationships, are aimed (although obviously not only enjoyed by!) boys & men, and also are wildly popular. And yet, utter silence on the horrors of what the boys might learn from them.
I think the real problem is that it's liked mostly by teen girls, and everyone knows that teen girls are especially heinous.
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