{"id":1142,"date":"2008-08-18T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:21:47","slug":"wash-post-article-twilights-popularity-proves-that-we-are-so-over-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/08\/18\/wash-post-article-twilights-popularity-proves-that-we-are-so-over-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Wash. Post article: Twilight’s popularity proves that we are so over feminism."},"content":{"rendered":"

Leonard Sax argues<\/a> that the great popularity of the Twilight series among hetero women <25  constitutes proof that we should abandon the ridiculous feminist ideal that men and women should be treated equally. He says:<\/p>\n

The fascination that romance holds for many girls is not a mere social construct; it derives from something deeper.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

And what is this “deeper” something? It’s an essentialized gender binary in which women are passive, cuddly and nurturing and men are aggressive, violent and death-dealing.<\/p>\n

So basically his argument is that girls still like Twilight because they are biologically programmed to like it; ergo, feminism has failed.<\/p>\n

The huge amount of interest in the Twilight books demonstrates only that romance is popular; it does not demonstrate the reasons behind the popularity. Sax’ conclusions of romance as biologically innate and feminism as a stupid failure represent unwarranted leaps of logic. In fact, I could just as easily argue that the popularity of the Twilight series rests on the culturally constructed assumptions<\/em> that the target readers — hetero girls — are expected and environmentally conditioned to like romance. <\/p>\n

Some people should actually learn how to formulate coherent thoughts before they’re allowed to write for public consumption. :p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leonard Sax argues that the great popularity of the Twilight series among hetero women <25  constitutes proof that we should abandon the ridiculous feminist ideal that men and women should be treated equally. He says: The fascination that romance holds for many girls is not a mere social construct; it derives from something deeper.  And what… Continue reading Wash. Post article: Twilight’s popularity proves that we are so over feminism.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[662,713],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sexist-stereotypes","tag-twilight-saga-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}