The Invasion of The Body Snatchers (AKA Twi-Moms)
This picture has been on several sites that I have perusing as of late. I actually have to say that I agree with this poster. Now, I am NOT talking about the moms who read the books and really enjoy them. I am NOT talking about the moms who can appreciate the male body. I AM talking about the moms who take this too far. These moms decorate their rooms (and absolutely HAVE to be single) with posters and cutouts the way I did as a teenager with my favorite metal bands. These moms who show up at premiers or twicons and try to rip off clothes, hair, or even body parts while screaming their battle cry “TEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAM JAAAAAAAAAACOOOOOOOOOOOB!!!!!!!!!!!!”. These are even the moms who ask these boys to sign their underwear when they are UNDERAGE (no the article doesn’t say that, it’s from my overly appalled memory). That woman should have been arrested on pedophilia charges or something and had it been my son she would have been. Because guess what, if it was a guy talking to an underage actress that way he would have been. That’s what really ticks me off. We live in a society where we are “shocked” when a female schoolteacher has sexual relations with her students but it’s perfectly fine for a 40 yo woman to ask a 17 yo male actor to sign her undies while she is wearing them. Just the thought makes me want to puke.
These moms need help. If these characters from a teenage series are what makes them get up in the morning to eat their Team Edward cereal, something is wrong. I am thinking it’s a midlife crisis. Just like the balding man who has to run out and grab the reddest and shiniest convertible, these aging women feel they need to relive the “glory days” of high school love. A love that is unlike mature love. It’s racier. It’s steamier. It leaves your head spinning. And it’s what they are lacking. All the while forgetting, or simply not in the mood to make it happen, that they can have that kind of love in their everyday lives. Or maybe they are afraid to and it’s easier to have a fantasy?
Often people hear me talk about Johnny Depp. It’s no lie, he is hot. But my fan-dom comes from the fact that he is a dam good actor and I love that he does offbeat characters more than what they tried to typecast him as in the beginning (heart throb, oh well they failed). I talk a good game on what I would do to the man but the truth of the matter is, IF I did meet him I wouldn’t be ripping off clothes or body parts while screaming “CAPTAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNN JAAAACCCCKKKKKK”, I would just pass out. I hope I would treat him like a human being because that is what he is.
What about this poor guy? Makes you wonder if he was just doing it for the girlfriend (and if he did I am sure he was rewarded that evening).
From Twitter: “Dear confused teenage girls, boys that sparkle and won’t eat you aren’t vampires. They are homosexuals” (sorry, cannot find the original tweet to give proper credit)
Thank you!! I swear, I can’t understand this Twi-Obsession, the books aren’t even that well written, the don’t get me started on the awful acting in the movies! At least when I was into vampires, they were of a adult, Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise variety, no less gay, but at least of age
I recently went to a baseball game that was having Twilight Night (poor planning on my part) and they had seating sections for Team Edward and Team Jacob, sadly they had no Team Get A Frakin’ Life.. The women there were insane, over boys my son’s age. I threw up in my mouth a little when they were showing clips on the big board, and the women were screaming like it was the freaking Beatles…
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LOL I hate going to see the movies. I do it for the eldest because I love her. We haven’t seen the new one yet. I dread it, last time I sat surrounded by all these squealing women and it made me sick. I can’t handlel that much fandom from older women who should know better.
I don’t understand the Twilight obsession at all. Granted, I am only part way through the first book and have only watched the first movie but I just don’t get it. The books aren’t that well written from what I can tell and I have little enthusiasm for whiny codependent “heroines”. Yes there is that first love element that makes you all warm and fuzzy but that alone is not enough to make me obsess over the books and movies. And ya know, R.P. is just not that good looking. More than anything though, I think it is the squealing and shrieking from tweenies and Moms alike that dims any interest I could muster up.
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R.P. looks like he ran into the wall. I swear I have never seen a nose look like that in my life! I am with you, the squealing is a big turn off for me outside of the changes the author made to vampires that have made no sense.