Bring me the head of Stephanie Meyer

    Never has there been a bigger threat to America's literary and film credibility then Stephanie Meyer and her vomitous excuse for writing. The fact that Stephanie Meyer is living out her fantasies using Bella as a proxy and then passing these horrible life lessons on to 12 year old girls around the world is not just sad, but should be considered a crime.
    The Twilight Saga is nothing more than a tween's version of a Harlequin romance (aka chick porn) and just as huge a pile of crap. Harlequin books and their kind are nothing more than a way for unhappy, unfulfilled women to fantasize about something they can't seem to achieve in their life, they create an unrealistic concept of relationships then blame men when they can't live up to it, not to mention teaching woman 127 alternate ways to say penis.
    The Twilight series is not much different and aimed at impressionable, weak minded young girls, and the life lesson is, you never need to develop your own personality, strength, or sense of self if you can throw yourself at troubled, emotionally, damaged, bad boys. Way to go Meyer, if you taught your daughter this at home child services would rightly take her away.
    As far as the quality of the books, and even worse those horrible movies, I'm not even sure where to begin so I won't go into a complete diatribe about all the shortcomings. I do remember the very moment where I developed a hatred for all things Twilight though. I rented the first movie out of a morbid curiosity and was mostly bored or amused by the incredibly shallow story and characters when Edward stepped into the light for the first time. "That's it" I yelled. "The reason this effeminate emo bitch can't be in sunlight is because it makes him...PRETTY...WTF?! Yup that was the moment I realized Bram Stoker rolled over in his grave.
    I am a huge advocate of childhood literacy, and reading in general, and there are hundreds or amazing books for kids and teens to read.  There are even a dozen series featuring vampires if that is what your child wants. So many children grew up on books that taught them inner strength, and how to deal with issues that are central to growing up, Judy Blume for instance.
     I can't believe any parent would want their daughter absorbing the relationship lessons in these stories and weaving them into their own personalities for future use, and if you think even for a minute that 12 year old girls aren't easily influenced and incapable of making good decisions then explain Justin Bieber.
    Stephanie Meyer was the American response to the J.K. Rowling phenomenon, England gave us Harry Potter and we gave back team Edward and team Jacob, we should be embarrassed.
    For 80 years America was the world leader in film making and literature, now British prime time TV writers are starting to make us look like a bunch of bored, talentless, housewives with typewriters and a Zoloft prescription. Thank God for the likes of Diablo Cody, Joss Whedon, Stephen King and others carrying the burden.
    Twilight sucks, there I said it. Now go buy your kids real books and movies and stop turning your kids into weak, insecure, boy crazy, trollops.
   

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