The reason for Twilight vampires sparkling is that they're supposedly basically made of some kind of biorock. Meyer describes Edward's skin as looking like it has diamonds embedded in it; I think she was going for an image of some kind of superpowered, superpretty granite. She obviously thought up the stone thing as a way to justify both the sparkling and her vampires being overpowered, but it's an explanation I can accept. Though it doesn't explain why they need to drink blood (or, more accurately, cannibalize people), but whatever, no vampire myth has ever explained that to my knowledge.
Anita's itty-bittiness is just so, so stupid. Also an obvious example of yet another of LKH's kinks. Women are teeny weeny like little children! Men are big and huge and strong and can crush us and throw us around, for they are so huge and adult and we are so small and toddler-like! Meyer does this too, having Edward carry Bella around like a toddler though that would be physically impossible, no matter how strong he is. It's gross. Hell, Lynn Johnston also did it. I think these authors get their ideas of sexual dimorphism in humans from watching too many gorilla documentaries. Though even gorilla males are usually only about a foot taller than the females.
Her obsession with weight is deeply unhealthy, and it explains why she has to be badgered into eating even when other people's lives depend on it. Eating is bad and sinful, exactly like sex, and a woman who does it is bad, but it's okay because she's forced to because otherwise other people will die. And it's okay because she remains an itty bitty toddler-sized woman who doesn't take up too much space and is the ultimate beauty, she stays skinny unlike all those other whores who eat food because they like it.
Of course, leave it to Anita/LKH not to be able to get past the "but you wouldn't be sexy!" bit.
Well, if you're not "sexy" in the most superficial way imaginable, you will not be loved. Because people only want to have sex with other people if they meet Anita's standards for appearance, and the only way anyone will love you is if they have sex with you. Love = "purty, me wants." Also, if anyone thinks that sex is not the only truly important thing in life, they are lying to themselves. And no one will want to have sex with you unless you are the prettiest person they are able to get to have sex with them. So in Anitaland, not being sexy = not having love and not getting the only important thing in the world. Eternity without that would be pretty bad.
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Anita's itty-bittiness is just so, so stupid. Also an obvious example of yet another of LKH's kinks. Women are teeny weeny like little children! Men are big and huge and strong and can crush us and throw us around, for they are so huge and adult and we are so small and toddler-like! Meyer does this too, having Edward carry Bella around like a toddler though that would be physically impossible, no matter how strong he is. It's gross. Hell, Lynn Johnston also did it. I think these authors get their ideas of sexual dimorphism in humans from watching too many gorilla documentaries. Though even gorilla males are usually only about a foot taller than the females.
Her obsession with weight is deeply unhealthy, and it explains why she has to be badgered into eating even when other people's lives depend on it. Eating is bad and sinful, exactly like sex, and a woman who does it is bad, but it's okay because she's forced to because otherwise other people will die. And it's okay because she remains an itty bitty toddler-sized woman who doesn't take up too much space and is the ultimate beauty, she stays skinny unlike all those other whores who eat food because they like it.
Of course, leave it to Anita/LKH not to be able to get past the "but you wouldn't be sexy!" bit.
Well, if you're not "sexy" in the most superficial way imaginable, you will not be loved. Because people only want to have sex with other people if they meet Anita's standards for appearance, and the only way anyone will love you is if they have sex with you. Love = "purty, me wants." Also, if anyone thinks that sex is not the only truly important thing in life, they are lying to themselves. And no one will want to have sex with you unless you are the prettiest person they are able to get to have sex with them. So in Anitaland, not being sexy = not having love and not getting the only important thing in the world. Eternity without that would be pretty bad.