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Bella no match for Sookie at vampire love
Jun. 11th, 2009 01:38 pmBella no match for Sookie at vampire love
Subservient ‘Twilight’ heroine a terrible role model for pre-teen girls
Sookie’s (Anna Paquin) world may have gotten a jolt once vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) entered her diner, but she makes sure he knows she doesn’t need him to be her dashing savior prince, no matter how charming he may be.
Commentary
By Susan C. Young
msnbc.com contributor
updated 1:42 p.m. ET, Wed., June 10, 2009
For an intelligent girl, “Twilight” heroine Bella easily slips into the passenger seat when it comes to her relationship with her undead boyfriend Edward Cullen. Edward, who has been 17 for almost a century, may drive a snazzy sports car and look like a GQ model, but he has some old-fashioned ideas about a man’s role in a relationship.
He is Bella’s protector, even sneaking into her bedroom to watch her sleep or disabling her vehicle so she can’t go somewhere he deems dangerous. Bella’s besotted by Edward, and willingly wants to enter the vampire world even if it means giving up her family and friends — not to mention hunting down wildlife to suck their blood.
Sookie, like Bella, started as the main character in a popular book series. She took shape in the HBO series “True Blood,” which returns for a second season on June 14. While the two share a common story — the love between a mortal and a vampire — the characters couldn’t be more different when it comes to their relationship with their undead boyfriends.
Sookie doesn’t need a guy with a pulse to make her blood race, but she’s not about to make the leap into that cold, dead world. Bella’s obsessed with spending eternity with her love.
In a long history of girl-meets-blood-sucker fantasies, these two fictional women have taken the spotlight in the resurgence of vampire obsession. Bella slips into a controlling relationship, hoping to toss her mortality away like last year’s fashion trend. Sookie’s just looking for a good time before moving on to something that resembles a normal life.
Young women like 17-year-old Sara represent the target audience for "Twilight", and she admits being uncomfortable with the character of Bella.
“She does everything this guy tells her to do, and it’s not right,” Sara says. “I think too many girls my age don’t want to be themselves. They say they are in love, but they are pretending to be something they aren’t because they want their boyfriends to like them more than they want to be who they really are.”
And, Sara says, who even knows who they really are at 17?
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Subservient ‘Twilight’ heroine a terrible role model for pre-teen girls
Sookie’s (Anna Paquin) world may have gotten a jolt once vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) entered her diner, but she makes sure he knows she doesn’t need him to be her dashing savior prince, no matter how charming he may be.
Commentary
By Susan C. Young
msnbc.com contributor
updated 1:42 p.m. ET, Wed., June 10, 2009
For an intelligent girl, “Twilight” heroine Bella easily slips into the passenger seat when it comes to her relationship with her undead boyfriend Edward Cullen. Edward, who has been 17 for almost a century, may drive a snazzy sports car and look like a GQ model, but he has some old-fashioned ideas about a man’s role in a relationship.
He is Bella’s protector, even sneaking into her bedroom to watch her sleep or disabling her vehicle so she can’t go somewhere he deems dangerous. Bella’s besotted by Edward, and willingly wants to enter the vampire world even if it means giving up her family and friends — not to mention hunting down wildlife to suck their blood.
Sookie, like Bella, started as the main character in a popular book series. She took shape in the HBO series “True Blood,” which returns for a second season on June 14. While the two share a common story — the love between a mortal and a vampire — the characters couldn’t be more different when it comes to their relationship with their undead boyfriends.
Sookie doesn’t need a guy with a pulse to make her blood race, but she’s not about to make the leap into that cold, dead world. Bella’s obsessed with spending eternity with her love.
In a long history of girl-meets-blood-sucker fantasies, these two fictional women have taken the spotlight in the resurgence of vampire obsession. Bella slips into a controlling relationship, hoping to toss her mortality away like last year’s fashion trend. Sookie’s just looking for a good time before moving on to something that resembles a normal life.
Young women like 17-year-old Sara represent the target audience for "Twilight", and she admits being uncomfortable with the character of Bella.
“She does everything this guy tells her to do, and it’s not right,” Sara says. “I think too many girls my age don’t want to be themselves. They say they are in love, but they are pretending to be something they aren’t because they want their boyfriends to like them more than they want to be who they really are.”
And, Sara says, who even knows who they really are at 17?
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