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more about #lovestory more comments → BytheSea: At least in the first book (which I skimmed through, most of), I got the impression she was controlling him. She was dead gone over him and he was enj... more » Ginmar Rienne: You know, in teenagers' defense, it's easy to forget in our jaded old age that they're experiencing stuff for the first time, and doing so when the ho... more » JinxyMcDeath: Which reminds me of Glenn Howerton's tweet about how everyone is commenting about the D.E.N.N.I.S. system being applicable to Twilight - [twitter.com] more » OneTwoPunch: Petty sulking teenagers with no sex. Yeah, great storyline. Phhht! more » KATE!: hey lets be fair, its not suicide if you're already dead! more » morninggloria: I'm busy writing the next blockbuster young adult romance novel. It's about a great white shark who falls in love with a seal. And then... after fou... more » tiredfairy: Ugh, Pretty Woman. What a horribly paternalistic movie that is. I don't know how anyone can find it romantic. Classist? Sure. Infantilizing to women? ... more » shoroko: I'd again say that there's a difference between portraying unhealthy relationships in fiction, and portraying them as though they were healthy and ide... more » mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it: Well he doesn't actually threaten to commit suicide. He believes that she has committed suicide by jumping off a cliff, blaming himself he then goes f... more » la.donna.pietra: No, it's romantic because he desires her based on a purely intrinsic quality--how she smells. It's the standard romance-novel trope of "fabulously at... more » portia_sue: I know I might be greyed out for being slightly off topic, but I have to ask: Is commitment phobia, taken to the extreme, abusive? It was mentioned ... more » bluebears: Plus couldn't we make a lot of the same arguments about Buffy and Angel? more » MerryLilly: Edward is no Romeo, that's fo sure more » vulcanized: They posted this on io9 the other day and the comments were quickly inundated by pink commentors claiming "You aren't reading the work as a whole! He... more » Flackette Goes Retro: You know, I was into this kind of melodrama when I was a teen, but I mostly grew out of it (a quick, intense relationship with an emotionally unstable... more » -
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Twilight's Hero Is Abusive, Which Makes Him All The More Romantic
If you're familiar with the Twilight universe, you know that Bella and Edward have an unhealthy relationship. A LiveJournal user has detailed fifteen ways, using a list from the National Domestic Violence hotline. Is that why Twilight's so "romantic"? More » -
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"Guys" Versus "Men."
"I've never liked men. I like guys." So begins the latest "Modern Love": More » -
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"He Hardly Ever Called Her A Vicious Little Bitch Now..."
Is The Road To Forever's Owen Tudor the Worst 80s Romance Hero of All Time? I don't see how it can possibly get any worse than this creepy, incestuous, lecherous veterinarian from 1983!
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Worst 80's Romance Hero Contestant #2: Dr. Ralph Culver, Stormy Springtime.
Today's contender for worst 80's hero? A cold, hard-hearted radiologist with control issues and a penchant for mind games! More » -
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Worst 80's Romance Hero, Contestant #1: Jay Courtland, Rules Of The Game
It's on! Who is the most loathesome, arrogant, sadistic, chauvinistic hero in the whole canon of early-80s romance, that hot-bed of appalling manhood? For out first contestant, we have a rapey, manipulative former footballer with a will of iron! More »
