Oooooo okay, let’s see.Â
I’m secretly very in the middle about it, and prefer other pairings, BUT I also sometimes feel a little defensive of it, because I think it’s the sort of thing that gets more shit than is warranted. I think it’s a lot like Twilight, where yeah, there’s tropes and things that it’s good to be critical of, and even have a moral objection to, but the reason it catches on is often not the material itself, but the fact that it’s a woman’s fantasy. And I don’t think that a lot of opinions that get put out there come from misogyny, but I think sometimes that the eagerness to jump on the bandwagon and agree with them is. It’s edgy and cool to be against it, to distance yourself from the girlish dream of heterosexual romance. Stuff like, “I wish this focused less on the love story and more on the girls supporting each other” gets echoed and twisted into “Wanting a boyfriend is dumb.” There’s a reason that happens.Â