random rant: Twlight fans

[strange]

WARNING: this is just a guy who's ticked off with certain individuals in the world, not anyone on this site. If offended by my comments keep in mind this is about only a few, I'm being stretotypical because it is only Stephanie Meyer fans who are doing this and I'm sick of it.

Has anyone ever noticed fans of Twlight and Stephanie Meyer seem to be oversentive and overzealous? Seriously though as an English student I've on another forum for a revision site and several Twlight fans argue and hate Robert Frost. Why? Apparently a guy who died 10 years before Stephanie Meyer was born stole her metaphor of fire and ice for one of his poems.

Or that a lot of Twlight fans seem to not be able to take criticism as I've come across hundreds of videos and commented hacking into Stephen King because he is apparently trying to take the spotlight off Meyer because he's not as good a writer?

The worse thing is as a English student I've heard from at lest two fans that Shakspreare ripped off Meyer....the other way round accutely......

I feel better now I've got that off my chest.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

What? Not pre-pubescent girls being 'oversensitive and overzealous?

Say 'tisn't so - what is the world coming to? Quelle domage!

Long days and pleasant nights

[md10pc]

We've had a few "Twilight fan" invasions on this board as well. I gather she has quite a lot of young fans so a lot of this may be due to immaturity.

The bit about stealing from Frost and Shakespeare--funny!

[Todash]

Yeah, basically most Twilight fans I've seen get all rabid seem to be girls who take the criticism of Twilight as personal attacks. It's just a kid thing. They'll get over it.

[KeyboardSamurai]

What I hate most about Twilight in general is the blatantly abusive relationship that Edward and Bella have. I explained this to someone, saying that Edward isolates Bella from her friends and implies that he will commit suicide if they cannot be together, she retorted with, "So? He's romantic!"

[Seneca_V]

I think if ppl want a story about a human romance with a vampire they should read the Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) books by Charlaine Harris, some parts may be too mature for young people, but the books are written with a strong, smart female character, and they're fun, easy reads. I hate to sound like a public service ad, but if I ever have a daughter I'd rather she look up to Sookie Stackhouse, than the Bella character in Twilight (I tried to read the first Twilight book, I can't even remember character's whole name, I think that speaks volumes!)

[KeyboardSamurai]

Her name is Bella Swan. Gee, what a coincidence; it means beautiful swan.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

And the ancient (untrue) fable is that the swan sings beautifully just before it dies, and Pythagoras believed that the souls of all good poets passed into swans.

No aspersions here but Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote -

'Swans sing before they die; 'twere no bad thing
Did certain persons die before they sing'

Long days and pleasant nights

[hipmamajen]

Yeah, I agree with the posters who've said that the rabid fangirls are probably so annoying because they're young.

I have a 13 year old girl, and 2 11 year old girls, and we all enjoyed Twilight together. The 11 year olds are the LOUDEST fans. Yikes!

Like Keyboard Samurai brought up, we've had lots of discussions about how Edward is sweet in the context of this fictional story, but if a real guy acts like that they need to RUN!

[mickeycat]

I am new here - wanted to add my 2 censt...I have a 13 yr old girls. They are still clueless about life, let alone great literature. I believe someday my daughter will be ashamed of her obsession. Things could be worse - they could be comparing the Jonas Bros to Mozart....MC