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My non-feminist approach to Vampire Edward

Worse than pushing gender stereotypes Twilight is turning an obvious case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder into a romantic character and nothing could be less desirable than a relationship with a person of the kind. I mean it. I have been there.

“I worry about the girls who seem, with quite a bit of personal conviction, to put one of the main characters of the Twilight “saga,” the vampire Edward Cullen, on such a high pedestal that they think he is the ultimate ideal of a boyfriend. That he is not. These girls need a wake-up call: Edward Cullen is a caricature of an emotionally, psychologically and physically abusive boyfriend — and one with supernatural powers no less. It can’t be healthy to have an attachment to a fictional character with those qualities, much less a real person.”

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“Twilight” Pushes the Harmful Gender Stereotypes We’ve Fought for Decades
Young readers of the popular books encounter women shoved back into traditional gender stereotypes that have taken years of effort to overcome.

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Sex with Bruce Springsteen

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Two minutes and ten seconds into Born in the U.S.A., the first of the album’s many female characters appears. She is given no physical or character traits; just two lines detailing her relationship with a fallen male hero. “He had a woman he loved in Saigon / I got a picture of him in her arms,” Bruce Springsteen proclaims, in the voice of a destitute Vietnam vet recalling his departed brother, killed in the same war that ruined the narrator’s life. It is a telling image, and properly foreshadows the role of women in the U.S.A. where Springsteen and his characters were born.
“Born in the U.S.A.”, which turns 25 this year, stresses male sexuality as imperative to the American Dream. Where does that leave women? Read more at www.alternet.org