Twilight is a terrible movie franchise. Just really awful. I thought about this as one of my friends posted that if you talk about watching Twilight sage and are also a loud feminists..she was deleting them. While I personally dont care if you enjoy watching terrible cinema I understand her angst. Probably not for the same reasons she has.
Sure I get feminists hate Bella. They all have valid points but...seriously though there are so many reasons to hate her that have nothing to do with feminism and more to do with just being a good person. Bella is not a good person. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I don't hate Bella because I'm a feminist, I hate Bella because she is the worst kind of person. Relating to my high school days she would have been the kind of girl I was friends with in high school or college or at least friendly with. I also would have secretly hated her.
Bella is a horrible daughter. Am I the only person who sees this. At no point do I see her as caring about her parents much at all. I swear had she been my child I probably would have smacked the shit out of her and grounded her. No you are not going out with the weird doctors kid. You are going to your room and doing your home work. It is a defining characteristic about her. She is arrogant and immature and exactly the kind of person who in real life would have terrible things happen to them, for lack of listening to her parents.
she is the worst kind of friend. The kind of person you welcome with open arms, who them dumps you the second a guy is in the picture. Nothing matters except the guy. Not your friends, school or anything else. The kind of girl who after being dumped would more than likely in real life call you crying their eyes out, as if you their "friend" really care after being dumped by them in the first place. She is the kind of person who is boring and tiresome to the rest of the world who has a life and things they are doing besides just searching for a boy. AND THAT is of course why so many women love Bella. How many of us know that girl from school or even now who is always obsessed with some man..always. They don't seem to concerned with their family and friends come and go. Everyone is their best friend so..no one is really. They use people and are surprised with this behavior leads to them in turn being used. Sure in Twilight everything works out..which is a person like that's dream come true. They can be self centered and still get everything they ever wanted, which of course doesn't happen in real life.
Then girl goes off into crazy self centered girl mode. Yes, I knew girls like this in real life. After her dream man breaks up with her she basically tries to do things to physically harm herself in order to hear his voice again or see him again. What the actual fuck. Never mind that she has parents who would be upset over her death or that it's just plain CRAZY, no gotta hear his voice. Reminds me of a couple girls I know who would drive by their boyfriends houses at night if they didn't text back immediately or if they broke up. Yes feminists I know you are reading these books or watching the movies and really missing the fact that women like this ACTUALLY EXIST. Bella's character isn't really that fanciful.
Then Bella gets worse..once she is engaged to Edward she continues to talk to and lead on the other guy Jacob. Tell me you ladies don't know at least a couple of women EXACTLY like Bella. I sure have. Gotta keep the door open with some other guy and lead them on just in case..right Bella? ugh. Of course a guy who likes you wouldn't be strong enough to just move on.. so how about don't lead him on. ..but of course it's all about her..the whole book is.
The problem with Bella is that she is way to much like so many young girls I knew growing up. I don't mind a story where a girl waits for a white knight. I'm not concerned that a character isn't a good role model (after all some of the best most interesting characters aren't good role models). I don't mind a message that says wait until you are married to have sex or an anti abortion message. Movies are about fantasy, I get that many women have the fantasy where a big strong guy saves the day. That's fine..the REAL problem with Bella is that she tells women that being a self centered twit is totally fine. It's a good thing. The problem with Twilight is that Bella is a bad character even when one looks at her under a conservative microscope. She is the most annoying person you could meet in real life. She is that girl who only goes out if there might be someone cool there. She is that girl who never takes your calls after she gets a boyfriend.
Lots and lots of thought and articles have been written on Bella..Bella as wish fulfillment for plain boring girls world wide, Bella as a christian role model...Bella as an anti feminist terrible role mode. Do you want to know what I think the secret of the novel is?? The real truth..why so many women read the book..because deep down lost of women are like this They were able to accept and even like the character-not because it was a white knight fantasy book (afterall there are hundreds of such novels) no they like Bella because deep down they are just as self centered as Bella. Watching the movies by part two I was pretty disgusted with Bella's actions and wanted to punish her. I thought to myself what I would have done to her had that been MY child. ..and that's why Bella is popular and terrible at the same time.
*og wait I had to add something else.. Also Edward and Jacob are both pedophiles. Its pretty creepy..but thats a whole other article.
