You know, I've read your comment to me a couple of times and I re-read your original post and, honestly, what you said THERE and what you've said to me HERE are not the same thing at all. You didn't analyze Twilight by doing a look at the fandom/readers and what the "internet feminists" don't understand of it. You wrote the piece from YOUR personal impressions of the book and how your impressions were different from the "internet feminists," whom you characterized as hating it because they hate feminine stuff/stuff for women. And while you didn't say the books were okay because it was about sex, you did say what you liked best about the book was its "female desire" subject matter, and that's what my post ran with and used to unpack assumptions.
And while I disagree with some of your assertions re: Twilight's readers on an anecdote-vs-anecdote level, I agree with a lot of what you've just said to me. I too get annoyed at the Twilight (or, hell, the Anita Blake, the My Little Pony, the Titanic) commentary of the "Girls like it so it sucks" school. (And I'm really hoping the inevitable RiffTrax for the movie won't go that route.) But I feel like I can't really engage with you about your original post in any meaningful way because you moved the bases so much. I don't know whether you're doing that because you're backpedaling in the face of criticism or your feelings have changed in the two months since you wrote the post, but it's not really fair to come here and engage with me based on what you're saying NOW, given that post responded to what you were saying THEN, and also expecting me to accept they're both the same when they aren't at all.
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Date: 2009-03-02 02:55 am (UTC)And while I disagree with some of your assertions re: Twilight's readers on an anecdote-vs-anecdote level, I agree with a lot of what you've just said to me. I too get annoyed at the Twilight (or, hell, the Anita Blake, the My Little Pony, the Titanic) commentary of the "Girls like it so it sucks" school. (And I'm really hoping the inevitable RiffTrax for the movie won't go that route.) But I feel like I can't really engage with you about your original post in any meaningful way because you moved the bases so much. I don't know whether you're doing that because you're backpedaling in the face of criticism or your feelings have changed in the two months since you wrote the post, but it's not really fair to come here and engage with me based on what you're saying NOW, given that post responded to what you were saying THEN, and also expecting me to accept they're both the same when they aren't at all.