You know, for the longest time I never abandoned the Twilight series-- mainly because I liked the story when I first read it, but also because I felt that the irrational hate of the series was nothing more than a popular hypocritical "intellectual" view, mostly taken up by those who have never in fact read the book with an open mind unclear of the bias of those that hate the series. The common idea is that if you like the series, you're a sparkly vampire-obsessed idiotic preteen equivalent devoid of any literary taste or intelligence. What the crap? Why the hell can't I be smart and like twilight, too? Why, in order to be taken seriously, do I need to publicly denounce the book series? Does it REALLY make that much of a difference? Um-- NO! People care too much about the opinions of others-- and are too easily bullied by their "intellectual" peers into giving up what they very well might enjoy in order to follow the culturally accepted "taste". So a book is written badly? Call the damn press, because Lord knows we've never seen THAT happen before. How come no one is bugging out about the House of Night series, or Fallen-- both of which are popular crappy vampire series? Vehement Twilight abuse amounts to nothing short of intellectual snobbery and bullying. Bah.
Shimmering Twilight · Fri Aug 13, 2010 @ 04:03am · 0 Comments |