Yes, I could have chosen lots of other places where Edward is not so great, but my emphasis here is on Bella and how she reacts to this situation. I guess I'm really uncomfortable with the description of her body (posted to These bruises . . . they're nothing, really.)
The injuries themselves are hardly surprising. I mean, the guy's a vampire. Get in a relationship with a bear, and you're going to get mauled occasionally. But it always disturbs me when people try to minimise or explain away the (posted to These bruises . . . they're nothing, really.)
Well, it's not just that he is a vampire, he is made out of like diamonds or something (I have a major problem logistically with her descriptions of the vampires being hard as rock and sparkling. Jesus, way to unravel (posted to These bruises . . . they're nothing, really.)
Brooklynn wrote: "I guess I'm really uncomfortable with the description of her body and her insistence that he hasn't hurt her. There's this strange tension here between her admitting, with hedging, that she's hurt and her insistence that she's fine." (posted to These bruises . . . they're nothing, really.)
The rough sex in Breaking Dawn wasn't really what bothered me. As an avid reader of Dan Savage, I understand that this is an attempt at narrating BDSM from someone who knows nothing about it. Also, writers like Chuck Palahniuk (posted to These bruises . . . they're nothing, really.)
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