AL ([identity profile] writinghood.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] deborah 2009-01-04 05:35 am (UTC)

Wonderful reponse -- I went and read the fillyjonk post you linked to before I came back here and read yours, and bingo, here are the reactions and thoughts *I* had while reading, but written out all intelligent-like!

And honestly, I thought the commenter who said that all the criticism of Twilight by people who hadn't read it reminded her of the conservative religious reaction to Harry Potter had a point, even though she got jumped on for saying it. I'm just highly suspicious of what looks like groupthink in any forum... I don't mean fillyjonk's post, which was not really about bashing Twilight; she was just using Twilight as a particularly salient example to support her point, and she didn't need to have read it to do so effectively. And she was explicitly *not* one of the people moaning about what the hell is wrong with people, omg even *grown women,* who actually like this crap; or how it wouldn't matter except the fact that it's marketed towards impressionable teen girls (won't SOMEONE think of the children??). Hello, missing the point of the post.

Gotta love a good old-fashioned moral panic.

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