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Originally Posted by C.I.Bond
I have a little trouble with the whole idea that adults are some how more elevated that children. The problem with Twilight is that it was so wide spread and so you have plenty of less “grounded” girls reading it so, statistically speaking you will have a few idiots in the mix. As for the biting… well… stupid but I believe there were a rash of adults throwing themselves off the side of cruise ships when the movie Titanic came out. No one suggested that clearly the movie had too much impact for them and they should have better parental supervision. The mental image of a 60 year old woman going to the movie with her 30 year daughter-in-law saying something like “remember dear, this is just a movie. Freezing to death isn’t really that much fun,” does make me smile.
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It's just a fact that adults have fully formed personalities, while children and young adults are still forming their personality. Which is why childhood trauma can affect a person's whole life. There are of course the unstable, or more malleable personalities at all ages, which is why cults work on some people (and yes I do think of Twilight as a sort of cult) and not others.
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Originally Posted by C.I.Bond
Yep, that one’s a lost cause. The author is Mormon, and procreating and marriage are very central to a woman’s role in the religion. I think this is the price you pay for the fantasy, like reading a Christian Romance and having to tolerate the whole “come to Jesus” bit.
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As a woman who doesn't want, nor can have children I find it offense and as an agnostic I avoid Christian anything. I was just saying it's one of things that irritated me.