there are far worse movies out there in terms of advocating damaging gender relations.

I beg to seriously differ... I have not seen a modern movie be so completely ass backwards in a long time... and I have a degree in Film so I have studied movies for years and years... Disney isnt even this bad.

i did my undergrad senior thesis on gender in cinema, particularly "she's all that" and "barbarella" -- what a goldmine those two movies are! and while "barberella" is a strange older movie, movies like "she's all that" continue to come out of hollywood every week. it's nauseating to see what young women are being exposed to in mainstream cinema and "twilight" doesn't come even remotely close to the worst of it.

Shes all that is the typical wallflower meets hot guy story, tons of them come out on a regular basis and it is a very standard story but in none of those stories do the girls withstand creepy abusive and stalker behaviour from the guys. when the guys are assholes the girls (usually they are very smart/geeky types) wake up and smell the roses... leaving the guy to come after them and try to clean up his mess and get her back when he realizes that he actually likes her.

Edward is FUCKING CREEPY and he is controlling in a "psycho boyfriend that is going to stab me" way.