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Originally Posted by Gunmaster45
It's beating a dead horse if anything. Everybody with half a brain knows how stupid it is, and only dumb tweens and obsessed 40-year-old women enjoy it sincerely. It's all common knowledge now, preaching about how profoundly stupid it is now is just a waste of time. People either know, or disagree.
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That's exactly the way that I feel. And I feel the same way about people who can't shut up about Justin Bieber or Ke$ha, or anything that teenage girls are into: Yeah, (insert name here) is shit, but what do teenage girls like that isn't shit? Also, I've known some girls who aren't much older than you guys and like "Twilight". Plenty of them admit that the books and movies suck, but say it's a "guilty pleasure".
I'm not saying anyone needs to like "Twilight" (I sure as hell don't), but bitching about it constantly is, in its own way, extremely annoying. The only thing I find more annoying than teenage girls who like "Twilight" is teenage boys with a superiority complex and identity issues who believe that criticizing the lowest of the low in pop culture demonstrates their superior intellect.
Also (and I apologize in advance for this), can you really say that teenage boys are a whole lot smarter or have better taste? How many of y'all used to read (or still read) Tom Clancy? When I was 13, I used to think he was the paragon of literary genius. But when I was in my early-20s, I tried reading "Rainbow Six" again, and I realized that Clancy is a
really bad writer. His characters are extremely one-dimensional and his dialogue is over-loaded with explanation that sounds completely unlike anything a real person would say in conversation. (This is also a problem that plagues Michael Crichton, another author I used to read as a teenager.) Sometimes I think that
I could write better novels than Tom Clancy, knowing what I know about politics, terrorism, and the military - and I have never considered myself to be a great fiction writer.