I'm ignoring the firestorm of snark and outrage on my Twitter feed about OWS. Sorry, but I just don't give a shit any more. 

What I do care about is the new trailer for the Hunger Games. 

Noah Berlatsky writes that grown ups like me, who wrestle with their teens for these books, love them, because Katniss is embodiment of Second-Wave feminism.

And then there's Katniss: an extremely competent, tomboyish young woman who is athletic, focused, responsible, and able to take care of herself. She's not especially interested in boys and doesn't have sex, or even really think about sex for almost the entire series. She's also politically engaged, especially as the story moves on. She is, in other words, the ideal second-wave feminist daughter; smart, fierce, independent, and sexually restrained.

Laura Miller of Salon thinks that Katniss is actually a very weak character, who pretends that she is not interested in power and ambition. 

Underlying Katniss’ unacknowledged mixed feelings is the trilogy’s own profound ambivalence about desire and power. In some ways, Katniss is more passive than Bella, allowed to have all kinds of goodies but only if she demonstrates her virtue by not really wanting them in the first place. 

I never read the Twight series, so I can't weigh in on the comparisons between the two characters. I am thrilled that a popular book series features a strong, kick-ass-and-take-names female character. I am thrilled that boys are reading a book where the main protagonist is a woman.

In era of Kim Kardashian and the bimbos of the Bachelorette, I think that there's a hunger for strong, athletic women who would rather run through the forest, than spend two hours flat ironing their hair.