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Originally Posted by Penforhire
So when another poster writes,
"I was watching this documentary about the allure of vampires in fiction, they filmed girls outside the premiere of one of the Twilight movies and the girls were screaming. One even said that she believed in vampires and was waiting for her own Edward.
Also I read an article that teens were biting each other and drinking a bit of blood. While it was never explicitly said it was pretty obvious why."
you dismiss this report? I'm not suggesting I blame the books, as I did not blame the book in the Amazon-pedophile-book thread. But I can see the viewpoint of people who do and, from that perspective, Meyers provides poor role models.
Oh, and I read the first three books. Does that count, lol?
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Yeah, I guess I kind of do dismiss that report -- there was so much hype! As for the bit (no pun intended!) about teens biting each other -- well, they did do a storyline on Private Practice about it, so maybe it happened once or twice. I do NOT believe that was any kind of common thing happening.
I guess my viewpoint is that it IS very common for teen girls to get obsessed over stuff, and it generally passes as they grow up. Did you ever see those films of the girls outside the early Beatles concerts? Sure, a few of them ended up with some sort of unhealthy mindset later in life, but I'll bet most of them are just regular people now. It's just that every little thing that happens now is so in-our-face and immediate that it all seems to be a crisis. I blame the internet.
