thepalmtoptiger:

One of the reasons Twilight was so hated initially was because preteen and teenage girls liked it. It was incredibly racist and depicted extremely unhealthy and abusive relationships. But that’s not why grown men made fun of young girls for liking it. They never looked or cared enough to read into why it was so harmful, they just excused it as something dumb because of the target demographic. Twilight’s message was actual terrible and misogyny paints girls’ interests as something to be made fun of are both true statements. Things are allowed to exist as a duality.