In Chin Deep

Last week the movie girls have been waiting three whole long months since it was in theaters to come out on DVD was released.  I’m talking about none other than the movie about a non-showering vampire and the love struck idiot human girl, aka Twilight.  Now I will preface that I have not seen the movie.  I attempted to watch a downloaded version, but I could not get beyond 15 minutes without hating every person I saw.  However, on a very boring day, and I mean really fucking boring, I took 4 hours to read the book.  I have to say after reading the book, I could not figure out the hype over this story.  To say the least, women just became that much more self-contradicting based on their love of this novel.  

Now let’s take a look at this novel.  It’s based around some chick that moves into some backwoods hick town in the northwest.   Now of course, a story can’t be good without her feeling out of place and alone.  She tries to fit in, meets a few of the local townsfolk, and in an awkward way makes some friends.  Of course there are others that are outsiders, but they don’t care about the locals and she falls for one of them.  Yada yada yada, finds out they are vampires, she still loves the guy.  Next, she forsakes any dignity by throwing herself at him and giving up any other friends and family for him.  Next he uses this to control her and makes her give up talking to the one semi-normal friend she has left.  In the end, she almost gets killed by one vampire, saved by another, proving in her twisted mind vampires are good and she no longer wants to be human, give up her family and friends to be one, and the story ends.  

So where does this story lead us, why to the obvious conclusion.  That for all the talk about being being their own person, wanting to not have to depend on men, in the end women still just want to be controlled.  I can’t recall reading a story that was more blatant about making a woman seem so weak without a man.  Now while I find this highly amusing, what’s even more amusing is that women fawn all over this character like he’s the new Romeo.   Are they really and truly that stupid to not realize how fucked up this story is.  I guess this is why we will always have such wonderful television such as Maury and “why I won’t leave my baby’s daddy even though he beats me” episodes.  Of course this will have to go between paternity episodes and “which of these 5 guys is the father of the slut’s baby”. 

  The idea that this is about unrequited love is just as bad a story as the women with two black eyes, because she didn’t learn the first time, accidentally fell down the stairs in her one story home.  So again, I guess this leads us all back to the same idea. Women are confused and need men to help them live a fulfilling life apparently.  As the character Bella made apparently clear, she was nothing without Edward, her life was pointless without men.  So go forth men and use this lesson wisely.  Women need you, whether they admit it or not.  Their lives are empty and meaningless without you.  Use this well, but just make sure you’re not one of the 5 candidates on the next episode of who’s my baby’s daddy.  

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