Reddit reviews Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)

Pretty sure you're a writer if you make money doing it, regardless of skill.

Which, for those keeping score back home, is what a "profession," is: a something you make money doing.

e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Why-Would-You-Buy-This-Terrible-Book/dp/0316038377/

Yes there is.

http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Saga-Book-1/dp/0316038377/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312888263&sr=8-1#reader_0316038377

Yes. Mostly. The stereotype helps reinforce a worldview where certain behaviors are seen as gender signifiers. In identifying with the gender one can come to adopt the signifier. A depressing part of growing up is becoming what everyone else expected us to be. If you grow up wanting to be feminine, and you are told that a kind of 'cute' dumbness is desirable you may end up simply adopting it, your natural talent left to die on the vine.

Think of teen girls who think it's cute to end every bloody sentence with that interrogative upward inflection, as if they were unsure of what they were trying to say. Girls get like that because they notice when boys respond to it. It becomes a habit. Boys respond to it because it makes them feel more dominant, and this drives a cultural norm where weirdly submissive conversational posturing is somehow sexually desirable. See here for a more in-depth look at this.

There was a recent study on gender differences in spacial reasoning tasks where they found that the performance differences evaporated when women were given some manner of confidence boost.

tl,dr, yes. yes it does.