Buffy vs. Twilight
This was posted to one of my chat groups, and it's brilliant. Check it out. It exposes all the sexist, patriachal crap in TWILIGHT.
I have neither read Twilight nor seen the movie because I pretty much sensed I would hate it, and after ths remix I'm positive I would have hated it.
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written by William H Stoddard, June 22, 2009
It's an interesting question. The video has Buffy saying that girls don't find being stalked a turnon. But the audience for Twilight seems to be overwhelmingly girls, a lot of them fairly young, and apparently they do find it a turnon. What's up with that? This seems to be part of the whole Byronic hero/Heathcliff/Dracula thing, where brooding, troubled, potentially violent men are sexy. I've never quite gotten that.
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written by Melinda M., June 22, 2009
I don't know how much of that is nature and how much is nurture. It does seem that young girls are attracted to the dangerous with the thought that "only I can tame him, bring out his better nature." The problem with this is that usually under the violence you just find more violence.
I haven't read much YA recently, but when I was younger the books really pushed the idea of the strong man who sweeps you off your feet, and "takes care of you", and the idea that a spirited woman needed to be "broke to bridle" and made "biddable" was fairly common.
The right did a very good job of engendering a backlash against the woman's movement. I think it's a shame, and we may be seeing the result of that in female reaction to TWILIGHT.
I haven't read much YA recently, but when I was younger the books really pushed the idea of the strong man who sweeps you off your feet, and "takes care of you", and the idea that a spirited woman needed to be "broke to bridle" and made "biddable" was fairly common.
The right did a very good job of engendering a backlash against the woman's movement. I think it's a shame, and we may be seeing the result of that in female reaction to TWILIGHT.
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written by Christine Valada, June 22, 2009
This was very smartly done. Of course, the thing I picked up on was the self-proclaimed appropriateness under 17 USC 101 et seq., which might well not hold water.
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written by William H Stoddard, June 23, 2009
I agree with Christine's reaction; I flinched at the claimed "fair use." It almost seemed as if they thought they could make what they were doing "fair use" by simply proclaiming it to be so. Realistically, a court might decide that what they were doing went beyond the limits of fair use, or an unfriendly IP holder might make them spend tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees finding out. My feeling is that most fanfic exists within a realm of toleration rather than of right, in that most IP holders either consider the results of suppressing it to be valueless or even detrimental, or think that they wouldn't be worth the cost.
The ironic comparison occurred to me that the IP appropriator's argument "I'm doing this because I love your work so much" is akin to the stalker's argument "I'm doing this because I love you so much."
The ironic comparison occurred to me that the IP appropriator's argument "I'm doing this because I love your work so much" is akin to the stalker's argument "I'm doing this because I love you so much."
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