See, that's the thing. I think they're exactly equivalent.
I don't think I agree, there. What you say about grace, sure -- but I think there's a huge difference between declaring that books ought to be banned and burned and barred from classrooms on the one hand, and writing parodies and mockery and angry blogrants on the other. I've seen alot of people questioning the message in the Twilight books, but no one saying that teenage girls shouldn't be allowed to read them. I mean, maybe I haven't been reading those particular blogs, but still.
I felt the Bible Belt rattling was metonymic: zomg witches and spells therefore it's ANTI-CHRISTIAN and SATANIC. With Twilight I'm seeing people attack or question the ideology in the books as related to women's roles, marriage, pregnancy and aging. And from my perspective, I as a child would've been less likely to read HP and start questioning my religion than I would've been to read, say, Jane Eyre and think that there was no way I could marry a man who was still married to his wife because it's WRONG and LIGHTNING might STRIKE A TREE NEAR ME if I did. Or something.
I could, of course, just be weird, and I'd like to blame any lack of coherence on the fact that it's past midnight and there's a cat asleep on my lap and half a typing arm. Purring.
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Date: 2008-09-25 04:38 am (UTC)I don't think I agree, there. What you say about grace, sure -- but I think there's a huge difference between declaring that books ought to be banned and burned and barred from classrooms on the one hand, and writing parodies and mockery and angry blogrants on the other. I've seen alot of people questioning the message in the Twilight books, but no one saying that teenage girls shouldn't be allowed to read them. I mean, maybe I haven't been reading those particular blogs, but still.
I felt the Bible Belt rattling was metonymic: zomg witches and spells therefore it's ANTI-CHRISTIAN and SATANIC. With Twilight I'm seeing people attack or question the ideology in the books as related to women's roles, marriage, pregnancy and aging. And from my perspective, I as a child would've been less likely to read HP and start questioning my religion than I would've been to read, say, Jane Eyre and think that there was no way I could marry a man who was still married to his wife because it's WRONG and LIGHTNING might STRIKE A TREE NEAR ME if I did. Or something.
I could, of course, just be weird, and I'd like to blame any lack of coherence on the fact that it's past midnight and there's a cat asleep on my lap and half a typing arm. Purring.