At the ripe old age of 11, I was fully convinced I was destined to meet the glittery love of my life and spend eternity with him as a "vegetarian" vampire as were all of my other friends in the sixth grade. His charm and mystique lured me into the pages of the Twilight Saga like his piercing gold eyes lured Bella into the forest where he confessed his love for her. Nearly 15 years later, my stance on a year-old vampire wooing a teenage girl — whom he constantly wants to murder and drain every drop of blood from — is, uh, a little different. Aside from the fact that he's years older than her, Edward's relationship with Bella is basically the definition of problematic. For instance, after speaking to her exactly once , Edward takes it upon himself to sneak into her bedroom and sit in the corner all night to watch her while she sleeps.

Why Twilight's Edward Cullen Is the Worst Boyfriend Ever
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Based on a work at thewasofshall. Originally published in May as an end-of-semester term paper. Can you tell that I was a fangirl?
Buffy had turned 17 in the previous episode, which is both the general age of sexual consent in many states and the magic age in Hollywood at which it apparently stops being weird for a high school girl to start a sexual relationship with someone 14 times her age. But the more you see and think about it, this trope of much, much older vampire and underage girl reveals gross, but pervasive, beliefs about children, men, power and sex. And they normalize the logic that abusers use to groom their victims in real life — the idea an adult can be powerless to forgo the affections of one impossibly unique and headstrong teenage girl, who alone is worthy of his special affections. And he frequently solves the problem of her being in danger because of her connection with him by kidnapping her. For one, it further valorizes Edward, framing his marriage to an year-old after two years of dating as the capstone achievement of his fantasy life. Instead, the show explores the diversity of teen relationships. Unfortunately, the central queer relationship pairs Magnus Bane, who is likely centuries old, with year-old Alec Lightwood, somewhat undermining that. Maybe the latest generation of vampire romances have, rightly, put stakes in the Edwards, Angels and Stefans of the fantasy world.