Talk:Leah Clearwater/@comment-71.204.44.4-20110506061217

A great female character ruined by Meyer's own writing. Her bitterness is understandable, after all her love left her for her cousin. She is treated terribly by the other men in her clan and describes herself as a "genetic dead-end". Jacob even describes her as "not being the woman she SHOULD be." This is a theme that comes up often in Meyer's work. Fertility and those who are unable to bare children are treated by themselves or others with disdain. Esme, Rosalie, Leah... Even when it's suggested that Bella can have another baby her first thought goes to "artificial insemination." As if the thought of either being unwilling or unable to reproduce is terrible or makes you less of a woman. I doubt Meyer intentionally included this glaring recurring theme but I have an inkling it has this view has a lot to do with her upbringing.