I agree with you about the Twilight series, though I’ve only seen the first two movies and doubt I’ll go further. In the first, I could easily understand how teenaged girls would be drawn to the idea of a boy who aches to devour his lover, blood and soul. It’s obviously highly erotic, and I say that as a middle-aged man who views sex from a very different perspective than an adolescent girl. The enforced chaste separation between the two simply highlighted the sensuality. But in the second movie the girl basically gives up on life because her boyfriend moved away. She becomes self-destructive and disengaged. In addition to the points you make, that alone is a terrible message to send to young girls. It’s a throwback to the days when women were defined by their husbands and little more. Until I read your post I didn’t know about the author’s Mormon connection, but now I see it explains a lot.