4 Worrying Life Lessons The Twilight Saga Teaches Young Girls

1. Being A Morbid, Whiney Person Is Attractive

lolbellawedding For those of you who haven€™t seen the Twilight films or don€™t know anything about the character of Bella, you€™re quite lucky but I€™m now going to infect your mind with that information anyway. Bella is a horrible person. She€™s dull, she€™s self-deprecating, she complains about everything but yet somehow, despite all of this, everybody loves her and they all think she€™s just tip-top. I mean, look at that picture. Anyone who looks that depressed on their wedding day either doesn't want to get married or is stupidly, ridiculously difficult to please. This just further demonstrates how much of Stephanie Meyer€™s fantasy this is. She was obviously the same morbid, emo kind of person that Bella is described to be, only nobody actually liked her, so she felt the need to slip into this fantasy novel where somebody with her personality traits is actually the most popular girl in school. Apparently Edward can€™t read Bella€™s mind as he can with everybody else€™s. Maybe that€™s because he uses facial cues to help him do it and Bella only really seems to have one facial expression; the €œoh no, not again€ expression. I don€™t know if this is because Kristen Stewart is an abysmal actress or if this is how Bella is written in the books but either way it€™s not exactly something that makes for a very likeable main character. But of course, the girls who are actually like Bella in real life, the ones who complain about nice weather and the ones who hate school and everybody in it, they€™re the kind of people who are going to watch this film and think that their personality is actually endearing and it€™s only a matter of time before they end up in an attractive love triangle and that everybody who doesn€™t think so is just wrong. People should be encouraged to have a nice personality with a good sense of humour, not just to stare blankly at everything and occasionally sigh with disappointment. There's probably a lot more and if I was willing to put myself through watching the rest of the series I'd have written them out. For those of you who've seen the whole series, are there any other things you think Twilight is telling people that are wrong? Let us know!
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