*snerk!* Won't traumatize? You haven't read the middle "book" in Breaking Dawn yet, have you? It almost makes Rosemary's Baby look TAME. :P
But that's more of a regular squick factor, really.
Although, I will say this much: I hate when people try to brush off potential influence or meaning by saying "it's just a book", as if the mere fact that it's in book form is going to make people not take it seriously. You know what else was "just a book"? The Bible and Uncle Tom's Cabin. :P Not that I think Twilight is going to have all that much of an impact in and of itself (if you look at my previous post above, I'm actually more inclined to think that idolizing Edward's a potential "warning sign" more than a "cause" of anything), but that's a really cop-out kind of argument when you put it that way. Now "it's just a cheesy, unrealistic angsty teen fantasy-romance story" I could almost get behind, but - and yeah, maybe it's just me, but - phrases like "it's just a book" kind of make me twitch a little. :P
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Date: 2008-09-10 10:08 pm (UTC)But that's more of a regular squick factor, really.
Although, I will say this much: I hate when people try to brush off potential influence or meaning by saying "it's just a book", as if the mere fact that it's in book form is going to make people not take it seriously. You know what else was "just a book"? The Bible and Uncle Tom's Cabin. :P Not that I think Twilight is going to have all that much of an impact in and of itself (if you look at my previous post above, I'm actually more inclined to think that idolizing Edward's a potential "warning sign" more than a "cause" of anything), but that's a really cop-out kind of argument when you put it that way. Now "it's just a cheesy, unrealistic angsty teen fantasy-romance story" I could almost get behind, but - and yeah, maybe it's just me, but - phrases like "it's just a book" kind of make me twitch a little. :P