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Originally Posted by Murder.Of.Crows
No, I was just thinking about that too. Pretty damn bad, or weakly though out. Oh well. I just feel bad for her. she tried to make a book, she did and it became popular. It shouldn't have. But, I feel like if we demonize her, what stops us at others.
Poe wrote about a guy killing his wife, because a cat was haunting him. I read that story in middle school and fell in love with Poe's dark and dreary worlds. He may have been an impression on my weak and feeble adolescence. Should we burn his books as well?
I mean, if you think Meyer's books are crap, then don't read them. Done. You don't need to demonize somebody for being shitty and well, stupidly ignorant at the images they portray.
As for Rowling, I loved the fact that it did grow up with the audience. I felt like it was more real, not only the characters grew up, but the way they saw the world did as well. Harry Potter was great. Why cant the new generation have something like that?
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Eh? Criticizing a horrible book isn't demonizing her, we're not throwing bricks through her windows and I'm sure as a Mormon housewife she'll be crying that a feminist in Canada said her work is misogynistic and she's a bad writer while she cuddles into all the millions that she made. Media and how we interact with it is part of the public sphere, we participate in it and it reflects on us as a society when something is popular. No, she didn't invent misogyny, but she sure as hell makes it cool to be a repressed woman.
Also, Poe explicitly stated that he thought a dead maiden was the saddest thing in the world, his dead women were women in the refrigerator, yes, but it was the equivalent of saying A PUPPY DIED to evoke sympathy. So there's a world of different between Lenore and the slut dying first in a slasher film.