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cheeseanonioncrisps · 2 years ago

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Every teenage girl has:

a) a society telling her constantly that the only thing she should be interested in is love and BOYSSSS!

b) a frustrated lust for violence

And the societal role of YA fantasy/sci-fi fiction is to act like it's just conforming to the former, while in reality appealing pretty transparently to the latter.

#ya lit #hot take #feminism #this isn't JUST about hunger games #or holly black's 'various girls with swords' series #or the new film where the female mc straight up eats people #like this is a *thing*#i mean everyone talks about twilight like it was just playing into the fantasy of having two hot guys fight over you #but even in twilight bella's MAIN GOAL throughout the series is actually to become an unkillable vampire with super strength #to the extent that edward even worries at one point that she might just be using him for his immortality #every popular ya fantasy/sci fi series has a core of deep violence #also warrior cats is the junior version of this phenomenon btw

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