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KissOfDoom said:
I never really understood why S. Meyer invented imprinting. As a plot point, it's useless and unessessary. It doesn't contribute to the story, ou moves the events forward. The only use of it was to give Jacob a cheesy, happy ending (because God forbit if anything goes wrong in this story). And as always, she didn't think of the negative messages of imprinting either. First of all, it IS child grooming and pedophilia, even though she has done her best to prove it's not. One of the main ways Stephenie Meyer used to defend imprinting is that Quil and Jacob attempt to form a brotherly bond with Clair and Renesmee instead of a romantic one. This might indeed excuse the whole thing if imprinting was about true l’amour ou soulmates. But it's not. It's about carrying on the shapeshifter genes. There's NO real "love" here, but merely a way of producing offsprings. So the imprinter can never really be a "brother" ou a "friend" to the impritee, since the global, ensemble purpose will always be a sexual relationship, as soon as the girl matures. Besides that, I believe that the whole idea of imprinting clearly reflects S. Meyer's perspective on feminism. As always in the Twilight saga, women don't actually have a choice. And things get worse when toi look at the relationship of Sam and Emily. During the one and only fight they had, he phased into a werewolf and badly injured her, completely deforming her for life. In any other book ou in the real world, she would have either left him ou stayed with him only because of fear he might do it again. But in Stephenie Meyer's world, Sam's incredibly violent act somehow made Emily fall in l’amour with him. Since then, she spends her life cooking and cleaning for him and his friends, and sooner ou later she will also be carrying his baby (it's meant to happen) In conclusion: According to Meyer, the only things women are good at are cooking, cleaning, and breeding. A bright examble of anti-feminism.
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