Thursday, July 01, 2010

Abdominance

Considered objectively, the Twilight "saga" is not so much a brief for virginity as it is a powerful case for the moral imperative of rape. I submit to you, dear readers, that it is therefore the most odious work of science fiction since Mein Kampf.

Posted by IOZ at 12:02 PM | email »
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14 comments:

FlyingRodent said...

Having reluctantly watched Mrs. R's dvd copies of the first two and been astonished to find that the heroine has to tread carefully around both her love interests, lest they go mental and tear her face off...

I thought it was more about the necessity of women's submission to mens' violent passions. Not getting the rape bit, but then I was slyly fucking about on the internet out of boredom at the time.

12:13 PM
Anonymous said...

so if your mormon vampires won't put out, you should rape them?

12:15 PM
Anonymous said...

But at least Taylor "Muscles" Lautner is now legal.

12:32 PM
Rojo said...

I remain blissfully ignorant of "Twilight" but given the political and cultural odiousness of much of sci-fi (see Heinlein for example), I find this difficult to believe.

And are vampires and wolf-men really sci-fi?

2:26 PM
¯\(°_0)/¯ said...

And are vampires and wolf-men really sci-fi?

If God didn't make them, then it was surely science!

2:48 PM
rowan said...

I just watched the first Twilight film. With Rifftrax, thank god. I'd be insane otherwise. It was actually WORSE than I expected. Which was impressive. And then I watched Ginger Snaps, another supernatural female coming of age story that washed the Twilight taste right out of my mouth.


Annnnyway. What was I saying? Oh yes, IOZ, I'm glad you can consider this objectively. Why, if people thought it was subjectively pro-rape, then well! That wouldn't count.

Overseen on Twitter yesterday: "Twilight is like soccer. A bunch of people run around for two hours, never score, and its billions of fan insist you just don't understand."

3:24 PM
Category Error said...

Twilight and Kampf are fantasies. You really should know better, IOZ.

3:24 PM
Professor Coldheart said...

Sci-fi, fantasy - it's going in the same damn section at Borders.

4:09 PM
LA Confidential Pantload said...

They were vampires, Dude?

6:31 PM
TGGP said...

What was the science in Mein Kampf?

9:25 PM
weaver said...

Sci-fi, fantasy - it's going in the same damn section at Borders.

Well yeah. But then, my local bookstores have started taking Paranormal Romance out of the SF/F/H ghetto and putting it next to Romance. Which makes more sense, really.

Naturally when I contemplate this publishing boom of books about women who love vampires and werewolves &c, I'm reminded of Bill Hicks' bit about dating Satan. And that reality will always out-satire satire.

11:25 PM
Gridlock said...

I'd have to file them under 'religion' I think.

6:47 AM
augustus818 said...

This might all very well and good. But it's still not gonna stop Little Miss Rottencrotch from screaming her head off about Pattinson's ice cold, sparkly abs.

God, I wish it would though. I just had a thought. Let's use Pattinson and Ms. Blank-face whatshername to fill in the BP hole. Two birds, one stone.

11:02 AM
Enron said...

"What was the science in Mein Kampf?"

Eugenics.

4:05 PM

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