Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2009

cult of domesticity?

Along the lines of the post about feminism:
Maybe this is going to sound offensive; oh well. So I don't really know anything about Mormonism other than shit I hear in the media, and it sounds like Mormon wives are real into being home-makers. S.Meyer herself is a professed stay-at-home mom. The heroine, Bella, is always being "good" by cooking a lot (in New Moon, she says she was above reproach because she "only rarely served leftovers"), or cleaning. When she's not being distracted by Edward, not fantasizing about being a Cullen, and not doing homework, she's a) cooking; or b) cleaning. More cooking than cleaning. A big source of her pride when she's with Jacob Black in New Moon is her cooking prowess. In fact, a lot of New Moon is nauseating to me because of this whole domesticity deal. Is this S.Meyer's Mormon tendencies rubbing off too much on her characterization of Bella? Is this just the way Bella is?

What do U think?

is Bella setting feminism back 50 years?

Does anyone else ever get mad that Bella...
-doesn't have ambitions, dreams, or aspirations to speak of (other than being with Edward 4-eva, duh)
-doesn't want to go to college, except as a way to stay human so that she can keep having sex with Edward in human form
-is constantly cooking food for her dad
-doesn't have a spine, except in situations where she's making a decision to stay close to Edward
-utterly relies on a man for her happiness
-always gets Jacob to do her mechanical shit, and doesn't ever pick up a tool
-she's so fucking insecure! even more than I was at my ugliest when I was a teenager!

But maybe if we hung out 24/7 with someone as hot as Rpatz, we'd be this retarded too!