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Twilight: Why do young ladies like vampires?

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Give your sex and opinion of "Twilight" below
Male and like "Twilight'. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Male and dislike/indifferent to "Twilight" 50%  50%  [ 13 ]
Female and like "Twilight" 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Female and dislike/indifferent to "Twilight" 35%  35%  [ 9 ]
I live under a rock and never heard of "twilight" either gender 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 26

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01 Jan 2011, 3:45 am

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I don't understand what everyone has againt the whole "emo" trend. I'm not emo myself, even though I do like dark things like horror and macabre humor. However I respect it enough to know it's just a trend just like being a hippy was in the 60's, and everyone used to hate those guys too. People need to lighten up and stop labeling everything as "emo" just to put a bad mark on things they consider socially unacceptable.


I try not to throw around such labels too much, but this kind of crap is practically begging for it. When someone takes something as dark and macabre as vampire legends, HORROR concepts I've been intrigued by my whole life, sugarcoats the hell out of them and turns them ass backwards, I find it very pretentious and annoying. The movie industry got something that was nice, cutesy, safe, and "easy to stomach" for people who otherwise couldn't deal with such movies, and since then, there has been a shortage of quality vampire horror, since Hollywood finds it too "ugly" and risky for business right now. What's next? Movies about glittery, pouty, pacifistic zombies with perfect skin? Heart throb orcs and cave trolls?



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01 Jan 2011, 10:13 am

I think Bram Stoker's novel is what started the "sexy vampire" craze, because in his novel he potrayed vampires are alluring, even though they were still evil monsters. But in modern interpretations of vampires they are potrayed to be misunderstood beings who only drink blood to survive and often fall in love with mortals, which I think fuels the vampire fantasy.