The Removal of Twilight from Myn's School Reading List

Objective: Secure the removal of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer from Myn's school reading list.

It started with me in the library one rainy September day, trying to make sense of some chem homework.  It never did, if you were wondering.  Then, one of the many library assistants walks over to my end of the library, hushes everyone there, and another library assistant proceeds with one of many book talks that teachers like to subject their classes to.

You can probably guess what happens next.  That library assistant goes and starts brooding on and on about how awesome Twilight is, how it's the next Harry Potter, all the girls start cheering, and I want to retch.  That was all I heard about it FROM THE LIBRARY ASSISTANTS (but the fangirls..  oh dear gawd) for the next month and a half.

Around the time before the release date of the Twilight movie, as I stated before in a previous article, there were many articles being printed in my local newspaper.  Then a different library assistant decides to go and cut one of the articles out (the first one) and hang it like a poster on the library's bulletin board.

That was the last straw.  With my sole anti-Twilighter friend backing me up, I went to that library assistant and started ranting on about how that poster was an insult to humanity, feminism, literature, and sainity.  I made some very strong points and angered a few of my own friends in the process, but as a true fan does, the library assistant backed out of it with words.  As in, "It's all good fun", "It's sweet and romantic", "You just don't understand", and the rest of the usual.  She also displayed a disturbing array of extreme Twi-mom behaviour.

Her first somewhat good counterargument was that it was a really good movie that was coming out  I countered that by stating how good movies come out all the time.  She then made a very good offer to me.  She said that after Twilight was released, and her poster went down, I was free to put up a poster of my own choosing, within the boundaries of school rules.

An interesting proposal.  A very interesting proposal.

Up went the following demotivational poster, apologizing for the horrible image quality due to me lacking in LJ experience.



In the following week, it had been covered in objectional sticky notes, it had been flipped over numerous times, it had been covered by an ad for Twilight: The Movie: Cast Graphic Tees, and I have had people coming up to me wondering who the heck Susan B. Anthony was.  It managed to stay up for one whole week before mysteroiusly disappearing into the twilight.

Two weeks later, it was my English class's turn to suffer a book talk.  To my intense delight, Twilight was no longer included in the list.  One known rabid asked the library assistant why it wasn't there, and I happily filled her in with the long answer.  She pretty much shut up.


Objective: Knock some sense into the library assistants.

Result: Success.

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