Have any of the individuals with such negative feelings actually watched or read anything from the Twilight saga to develop their own opinions of the matter instead of regurgitating what they read on the internet/heard from friends?
I have read all of the books, including the unreleased Midnight Sun, in order to be able to argue that the series sucks, and suck it does. To be more specific on why: the characters are unlikeable save for one or two (and I swear they wandered in from a better book), Meyer has pretty much rendered her vampires nigh invincible unless the plot called for it (Meyer actually admitted that killing characters makes her cry), any attempts at symbolism are smacked to the readers' faces with a sledgehammer, the "story" only happens the way it does because the characters are idiots, it's filled with backwards values and double standards (as well as several implications that actually made me feel uncomfortable reading it) and has far too much evidence that Meyer fell asleep in school compounded by an obvious lack of research (rich banker in the Great Depression keeping his job for example).