Sarah Clarkson has a good take on the attitude some have taken when reviewing Twilight. She says, “Thing is, I know, and rather adore, quite a few teenage girls. I remember being one (and have moments when I feel like one still). And I can guarantee you that most aren’t harboring a dark desire to be worshiped by a man. What they do want very much is to be loved. Are the lot of them boy crazy? Pretty much. And I’m sorry, but isn’t that part of how God made us?”
As someone whose writing has not one vampire and who has no interest in same, still I’ve always felt that this mini-phenomenon was a metaphor for something else real that’s going on. What, I don’t know!