The persistence of “Twilight bad” in modern pop culture speaks less to the actual quality of Stephanie Meyer’s books, and more to a normalized hatred of women and the media they like. Shaming young girls for liking something marketed directly to them remains an ugly reality about how we produce and consume media. If it’s not Twilight, it’s One Direction. Or Pretty Little Liars. Or Nicholas Sparks novels. No piece of media is above critique. But some media is more easily skewered than others. I could give you a 700+ page seminar on why I dislike Nicholas Sparks, but what point would it serve?