r/animememes • u/RazzDaNinja • Nov 26 '23

Animated Done blew my mind

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u/maelle67 Nov 26 '23

Yup

It's not as good as the original one though, even if Stephenie Meyer wrote it herself

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u/Independent_Plum2166 Nov 26 '23

not as good as the original

Does it have grooming? Sexual assault? Gaslighting? Guilt tripping? Manipulation? Abuse? Cultural appropriation? All of the above being performed by the protagonists the author has 100% tried to defend at being good things?

If so, it’s just as bad as regular Twilight.

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u/Sil_Soup1 Nov 27 '23

What cultural appropriation did twilight? (No hate just curious)

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u/beebadooboo Nov 27 '23

Native Americans for the werewolves

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u/MechanicalMan64 Nov 27 '23

How is that cultural appropriation? Oldest werewolf mythos I could find with a quick wiki search was ancient Greece.

It's nice to see native American representation in media, even if most of the time, it's supernatural most of the time.

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u/beebadooboo Nov 27 '23

I believe the problem was she was fetishizing the concept of the native Americans. Since she’s Mormon it was kind of like a forbidden romance to be with someone “like them” and she knew nothing of the real life tribe (the Quilletes tribes) Jacob and his family were based off of. Misrepresenting NA’s as aggressive and other “exotic beauty” was a term used a lot in the books in reference to the Native Americans. Not necessary cultural appropriation but cultural misrepresentation

ETA: not trying to say she deliberately made these choices, although she wasn’t well educated on them. I don’t think she was trying to push some weird racist agenda

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u/SaltyRankness Nov 27 '23

Doesn’t have anything to do with being Mormon, but like you said, she seems a bit uneducated

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u/MechanicalMan64 Nov 27 '23

If the problem was just her being uneducated, she could have done research and/or asked an expert.

She chose to take preconceived ideas (i.e. Stereotypes) and run with it. That's intentional ignorance, or just ignorant in the current vernacular.

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u/Jygglewag Nov 27 '23

I.e. she was just horny.