How to handle hate

[Darkeyedangel4657]

Just want some opinions here... a lot of people are serious twi haters now a days even the people who once loved it. I find myself hiding my love for twilight like porn hidden under my bed. how do you guys keep your love but deal with hate?

[SourAlpha]

Darkeyedangel4657

Just want some opinions here... a lot of people are serious twi haters now a days even the people who once loved it. I find myself hiding my love for twilight like porn hidden under my bed. how do you guys keep your love but deal with hate?

Tell them to piss off. You're not wrong for liking it. They're not wrong for hating it. However, they are wrong when they attack people for liking it. Has that happened to you?

[Darkeyedangel4657]

SourAlpha

Darkeyedangel4657

Just want some opinions here... a lot of people are serious twi haters now a days even the people who once loved it. I find myself hiding my love for twilight like porn hidden under my bed. how do you guys keep your love but deal with hate?

Tell them to piss off. You're not wrong for liking it. They're not wrong for hating it. However, they are wrong when they attack people for liking it. Has that happened to you?

Yea it happens all the time I got a pop thrown at me when I was standing outside for the breaking dawn part 2 movie premiere

[SourAlpha]

Darkeyedangel4657

SourAlpha

Darkeyedangel4657

Just want some opinions here... a lot of people are serious twi haters now a days even the people who once loved it. I find myself hiding my love for twilight like porn hidden under my bed. how do you guys keep your love but deal with hate?

Tell them to piss off. You're not wrong for liking it. They're not wrong for hating it. However, they are wrong when they attack people for liking it. Has that happened to you?

Yea it happens all the time I got a pop thrown at me when I was standing outside for the breaking dawn part 2 movie premiere

That premier was quiet a while ago. Anything more recent? Is it verbal or physical? Both? Does it happen in your school?

[Darkeyedangel4657]

SourAlpha

Darkeyedangel4657

SourAlpha

Darkeyedangel4657

Just want some opinions here... a lot of people are serious twi haters now a days even the people who once loved it. I find myself hiding my love for twilight like porn hidden under my bed. how do you guys keep your love but deal with hate?

Tell them to piss off. You're not wrong for liking it. They're not wrong for hating it. However, they are wrong when they attack people for liking it. Has that happened to you?

Yea it happens all the time I got a pop thrown at me when I was standing outside for the breaking dawn part 2 movie premiere

That premier was quiet a while ago. Anything more recent? Is it verbal or physical? Both? Does it happen in your school?

Sense then I have graduated and gotten married and I haven't exactly been running around in my twilight shirt... not a lot of people know about it. and with all the joking and the mean things people say about it I'd rather keep it a secret.

[Suiseiten]

While I'm not exactly a fan, I'm not a hater either. I agree that it's ridiculous how people can get over a fandom or hating one, but when it gets physical is when it disgusts me. That said, I'm one who would mess around with people verbally about liking Twilight before it grew on me. I disagree with a lot of what happened and how it's painted to be acceptable, but the ink is dry, the copies have been made, it's been made a movie, and even then, I'm not a publisher so there's nothing I can do about it aside from talk about what I like of the movies and why I disliked the storyline in many points.

But yeah, I'd say if you like it, there's nothing to stop you from sharing your fandom and you shouldn't be afraid to show it. I can see why you'd keep it closeted after the soda incident (Which I hope your theatre tossed the schmuck who did that to you out of there), but just because someone isn't in your fandom or as wild about it as you doesn't give them the right to dictate that you have to keep it to yourself.

[Darkeyedangel4657]

Suiseiten

While I'm not exactly a fan, I'm not a hater either. I agree that it's ridiculous how people can get over a fandom or hating one, but when it gets physical is when it disgusts me. That said, I'm one who would mess around with people verbally about liking Twilight before it grew on me. I disagree with a lot of what happened and how it's painted to be acceptable, but the ink is dry, the copies have been made, it's been made a movie, and even then, I'm not a publisher so there's nothing I can do about it aside from talk about what I like of the movies and why I disliked the storyline in many points.

But yeah, I'd say if you like it, there's nothing to stop you from sharing your fandom and you shouldn't be afraid to show it. I can see why you'd keep it closeted after the soda incident (Which I hope your theatre tossed the schmuck who did that to you out of there), but just because someone isn't in your fandom or as wild about it as you doesn't give them the right to dictate that you have to keep it to yourself.

If everyone thought like that then the world would be much more accepting of others... sadly the soda thrower was in a car and just did a drive by so he was not caught. Im not a big fan of Harry Potter or Dr. Who and I don't hate on those who do. And i know the movie were not that great but i loved the books first so why dose anyone have a right to hate something that i used my imagination to create not a motion picture...

[TheQuietRiversRage]

Darkeyedangel4657

Suiseiten

While I'm not exactly a fan, I'm not a hater either. I agree that it's ridiculous how people can get over a fandom or hating one, but when it gets physical is when it disgusts me. That said, I'm one who would mess around with people verbally about liking Twilight before it grew on me. I disagree with a lot of what happened and how it's painted to be acceptable, but the ink is dry, the copies have been made, it's been made a movie, and even then, I'm not a publisher so there's nothing I can do about it aside from talk about what I like of the movies and why I disliked the storyline in many points.

But yeah, I'd say if you like it, there's nothing to stop you from sharing your fandom and you shouldn't be afraid to show it. I can see why you'd keep it closeted after the soda incident (Which I hope your theatre tossed the schmuck who did that to you out of there), but just because someone isn't in your fandom or as wild about it as you doesn't give them the right to dictate that you have to keep it to yourself.

If everyone thought like that then the world would be much more accepting of others... sadly the soda thrower was in a car and just did a drive by so he was not caught. Im not a big fan of Harry Potter or Dr. Who and I don't hate on those who do. And i know the movie were not that great but i loved the books first so why dose anyone have a right to hate something that i used my imagination to create not a motion picture...

Simply put, it's human nature. Not everyone's going to be a fan of every franchise on this planet. Everyone has different tastes. I will say that I found a certain charm with the movies, though it makes the books difficult to read because there were a few things I still don't like about them. I mean, with the books, I've tried to read even the first book with no luck. I've been where Bella learns about Edward being a vampire and he charmed the waitress to give them free food for the last year or so. It's because I know where it's going to go from there, they suddenly become the Forks High "it" couple and she abandons her clique. The way she goes around the latter just rubs me wrong because it's like, they were here and now maybe they'll appear as a reference and fade into obscurity until New Moon. And to be frank, I liked Eclipse and the last Breaking Dawn movie the most. The others were pretty lackluster though nice charm for an escape, but I felt that there was a lot more advance with those two.

[Minerva de Sade]

I can really only reiterate what other people have said, but here goes:

If someone doesn't like the fact you don't like Twilight, then don't worry about it. Some people don't like it, but it's not ruining friendships over if it's your friends who are causing the problems. Just understand they don't like it, and find other friends to hang out with who do.

For instance, I knew a girl who hated Harry Potter and refused to talk about it with me, despite my love of the series (she insisted it was boring and she couldn't get through the first few pages before falling asleep. I'll keep my response to that to myself for now.). But, she kept insisting on talking about Twilight even though she knew I wasn't a fan of it and didn't like it, much like her position on Harry Potter. She and I came to a truce that we wouldn't discuss either series around the other, and we kept being friends while talking with other people who did share our interests (Though she kept trying to get me to read her fanfiction, which I politely declined).

I understand there are people out there who think people who like Twilight are stupid and wrong (I used to be one of them), but they're wrong for telling you what you can and can't like. You're allowed to like Twilight, as long as you don't try to hurt or demean others who don't.

Just like I'm allowed to not like it, as long as I don't try to hurt or demean people who do, like yourself.

Granted, there are jerks on both sides of the fence, but they're a minority, and not worth your time.

[Sulina]

Every fandom has the same system I'm afraid.

You get the rabbid haters, but you also get fans who threaten you for not sharing their fandom.

Twilight for me was not just the writing that bothered me, at its height, the fanbase was bordering insane. A teenager made headlines for driving under influence, when she was brought to the police station, she said it never would have happened if her boyfriend didn't refuse to go and watch Breaking Dawn with her. I work in a cinema and when I was struggling to find one girl's booking because she didn't have a reference number she accused me of trying to stop her seeing it.

There's a forum called Twilight Sucks, which, despite the name, is a critique site, it allows people to freely pick things out, like the grammar, plot holes etc. without being reprimanded, whereas even using the words Mary Sue got you banned from Twilight Lexicon.

The best thing to do here is be the better person in the picture, just shrug it off and say, 'OK, you're entitled to your opinion, but so am I', and leave it at that. If they push you, just walk away. Don't retaliate or you'll just fall to their level.