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detectivenyx · 1 year

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"twilight was a deeply anti-indigenous text with an abusive power-imbalance masquerading as a romance story written by a mormon and it was weird when white people tried to rehabilitate it" and "a lot of contemporary criticism of twilight boiled down to homophobia and misogyny and wanting to keep some kind of purity in a constantly-changing vampire mythos" coexist.

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#look im certain that indigenous americans especially from the Quileute nation itself criticised it when it came out.#at the same time they were absolutely drowned out by white men afraid edward would take their masculinity #calling him a faggot and saying he was more a fairy than a vampire because he sparkled in the sunlight #(ignoring that some vampire myths do suggest they are fae but when have homophobic white men led us astray before?)#even so it meant that it was absolutely ripe years later for white women to try to rehabilitate.#and because of all the homophobia and that a lot of criticism at the time WAS just 'how dare women thing be popular.'#because 'uh this is a severe power imbalance' and 'this story characterizes us as 'noble savages' and that's not a good thing'#got absolutely drowned by men afraid a sparkling bloodsucker would uproot masculinity

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