I am so tired of people acting like YA novels have a Deeper, Omnipresent Responsibility that any other lit is excused from. I'm really uncomfortable at the way adults seem to feel so okay with deciding that because the target audience is a group of people that are lower on the ladder of power, or whatever, it's reasonable to decide that the books are bad or unhealthy or whatever.

I am not into Twilight, because it doesn't hit my story kinks. But I will damn well defend the right of Twilight to be read and enjoyed and discussed, because the alternative- that is to say, deciding young adult literature is meant to be first and foremost a teaching tool rather than a goddamn story- is so abhorrent it makes me want to stab things.

A lot.