Stephanie Meyer

This a secondary post to the one above, even though I wrote it later.
Because I got myself all worked up.
And I didn't discuss fully how terrible a person and writer I think Stephanie Meyer is.
And I want to.
Because of my over powering angst.

I would like to address all of my problems with Stephanie Meyer separately, beginning of course, with the most common complaint of her:

She is a terrible writer: She does not obey any grammatical laws. She is repetitive and obnoxious. The story lines in every single one of her books begins 2/3rds of the way through, instead of, you know, at the beginning. Except of course, her last novel, in which the entire story arch is completely closed at the beginning when Bella and Edward FINALLY have sex, since that's all the books were leading up to. Then an entirely NEW plot randomly begins and Bella has a monster baby. This, of course, is completely unrelated to the previous books.

She is a terrible person: I honestly believe that you should try to convey your values in your literature. NO, I don't think that mean you have to write only Mormon books if you are Mormon. However, I cannot help but feel that all of her books are PRO-abortion and PRO-pre-martial sex. I would not even care about this, except that everyone in the world knows that she graduated from BYU.
An author came to talk to us once and said "Stephanie Meyer has done something great. Her first books were all against having sex before marriage and her last book was anti-abortion."
If you remember the first books, all Bella wants to do is bang her undead stalker. He will not let her because he doesn't want to go to hell. They fight about it all the time. She begs him repeatedly to please prove how much he loves her by doing the dirty. He keeps saying no. She is constantly depressed and angry because of it. Finally they decide to get married so that they can have sex without feeling guilty. Please do not tell me that story line is ANTI pre-martial sex.

Then in the last book, after finally getting married and doing it ONCE, Bella is knocked up with a creature like unto those from scary alien books. It eats her from the inside. Everyone around her wants to kill the baby because they think it is evil. Bella becomes crazed. She decided to let it live literally off her blood. It rips itself a hole in her stomach and crawls on out, leaving Bella to die. Psych, suddenly Bella is a vampire. Yay!
Stephanie Meyer should be embarrassed. I think somewhere she probably is.
Deep down, you know.

She has deprived an entire generation of happy relationships: Yes. Even on campus, where these people should be ADULTS, I have heard men say "I decided to read Twilight so girls will like me more."
I have heard women say "I asked my boyfriend to read Twilight so he could understand my needs better."
This is what men will learn: Be better looking. Hang out with girls with low self-esteem, but who are secretly hot. Creep into her bedroom at night to watch her sleep. Wear lip gloss. Follow her around and spy on her, even before you have officially become friends. What she thinks is not important, it is all about how she smells/looks. Protect her from things, she is helpless and easily confused. Deny her of any physical affection and she'll only want you more. Beat up other boys who like her and then be mean about it. Abandon her whenever and if you come back she will accept you, as most victims of abusive relationships do.

This is what women will learn: My personality is unimportant, as long as I am attractive. I should let men do things for me because if I do things for myself he does not love me. Stalking is not creepy, it is romantic. If I somehow make an attractive person love me I should do really nice things for him all the time and cry all the time because I do not deserve him. Love, lust, and obsession are all the same thing. If a man leaves me, I should kill myself. If I fail to kill myself before his return, I should take him back. He left me because he loves me. I should try to date as many men as possible, because I am ugly and clumsy and stupid. If I trick my man into doing me I will be happy and assured of his love.

(I'm not really done, but I have to rush to class, so that is all for now.)