Twilight (2008)Movies

Lifestyle Even while women devour the Twilight books, most revile the series' heroine Bella Swan. The savvy modern woman prefers the vampire-slaying Buffy Summers. As a fan of both the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight franchises, I think that we have this partially backward and that the Buffy v. Bella arguments common on the web underscore dangerous assumptions about women. Feminists have co-opted Buffy and the female superheroes for the gender wars in order to perpetuate their illusion of no differences between men and women.Conventional wisdom tells us that women can do anything men can. With rare exception owing to strength or stature, this is true. But we don't always want to do what men do, and even if and when we do we have to...