De-Romanticizing Rape Culture – Twilight’s Toxic Masculinity and Why Fanfiction Does It Better

Twilight hasn’t aged well. In this blog post, Alice Knöpfle talks about a few controversial scenarios which occurred in The Twilight Saga; how women are subdued, as seen in the female Cullen’s traumatic back stories that have been glossed over and reflected in Bella’s bland personality, and how fanfics have the power to eliminate problematic behavior and plots, expand storylines that can be empowering and improve the original story by rewriting it while staying canon – twenty years after the first book has been released. [read more]