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Originally Posted by EileenG
I kind of do....
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Ha, check my website; I blog about Twilight every Saturday, almost without fail. Two years in the running and we're finally up to Chapter 10!
But more on-topic, I hate-hate-hate the sexual politics in Twilight. I know it's abstinence porn, but I am strongly adverse to the Hero who keeps the Heroine a virgin "for her own good". No one should have sex they're not comfortable with. But he should own that that's HIS needs speaking ("I don't want to have pre-marital sex") and not fob those needs off onto her ("You shouldn't have pre-marital sex, so I'm doing this for your own good"). Ick ick ick.
Re: your hero, I always flinch a little at the woman who won't own up to it not being rape because there's a stereotype out there that all woman are like that when usually it's the other way around (women frequently refuse to label actual rape as rape because of social stigma). I wonder if a dash of "lived in a non Romeo-and-Juliet state" would add to the personal tragedy without perpetuating the stigma? That way, even if the girl did finally come forward when things got Serious, legally-speaking, the jury would have convicted him anyway if she'd been 17 and he'd been 18, or whatever.
A lot of states still don't have R&J laws and it irks me, to say the least. My two cents, though -- no need to edit your story on my account.
