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<cite.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</cite>
Yes, exactly. Twilight's problematic, but I was at dinner last night with some friends who were all talking about how they hadn't read it, but they'd heard it was virulently anti-feminist, and I just wanted to scream. The books are problematic as hell, but honestly, do we have these groupthink reactions to Heinlein? Tolkien? Pullman? I could go on naming authors whose books have massive gender problems, but (a) aren't Mormon, (b) aren't women, and (c) aren't popular among women and girls.
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Yes, exactly. Twilight's problematic, but I was at dinner last night with some friends who were all talking about how they hadn't read it, but they'd heard it was virulently anti-feminist, and I just wanted to scream. The books are problematic as hell, but honestly, do we have these groupthink reactions to Heinlein? Tolkien? Pullman? I could go on naming authors whose books have massive gender problems, but (a) aren't Mormon, (b) aren't women, and (c) aren't popular among women and girls.