Grown Women Don’t Read Twilight

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Grown Women Don’t Read Twilight: Here’s an Alternative (That Just Might Save America)

Women rush from one triviality to the next, consume gossip and trash, then wonder why America is falling apart. Time to put your brain on a diet.

So last week I ragged on guys for reading comic books and playing video games and consuming instead of creating and basically committing slo-mo suicide in a miasma of onanistic escapism.

I just know lots of female readers were going, “Right on! I am so forwarding this to my husband!!” — then they got to the last line of my article, about how I was going to rake Today’s Woman over the coals next.

Trouble is: the ladies who need to read this article aren’t on the internet right now; they’re at a “spa,” trying to decide between the “Brazilian” and the “Californian.”

Or if they are on the web, they’re at another site reading about Kim’s baby, or inhaling Harry Potter fan-fic, or uploading topless pix of themselves.

PJ Media’s female readers are presumably politically engaged, well-informed and — just a guess — not too skanky.

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My (not so) secret is that I have disdain for adult women who read a lot of teenager books. Yes, I'm talking to you, Twilight fans. Still shopping in the Juniors section, too?

I also think women who read those 50 Shades books need to find a guy so they can actually have torrid sex instead of just reading about it. And when a married woman says she reads them I look at her husband and think, yeah dude, ask your doctor if Cialis is right for you.

Sorry.

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Originally Posted by vraiblonde

My (not so) secret is that I have disdain for adult women who read a lot of teenager books. Yes, I'm talking to you, Twilight fans. Still shopping in the Juniors section, too?

I also think women who read those 50 Shades books need to find a guy so they can actually have torrid sex instead of just reading about it. And when a married woman says she reads them I look at her husband and think, yeah dude, ask your doctor if Cialis is right for you.

Sorry.

well put!

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So, the article says to read Jane Austin. No thanks.

Any reading suggestions for we adults? Is Nicholas Sparks acceptable?

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I believe in equal opportunity reading. Even if the book sucks.



I just finished Memory of Light.
I just started Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
After that it's The Secret of Wildcat Swamp.

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But...but..... I've read the Twilight series....and Harry Potter....and Hunger Games.....and 50 Shades....
















In my own defense, once a book goes wicked viral, I read it to see what all the fuss is about. I do an awful lot of reading, though, and it's certainly not limited to any particular genre.

And I've read plenty of Jane Austin....and Nicholas Sparks....



What does it all mean?! Someone please analyze me and tell me what I've done to contribute to the destruction of the world....

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I'm just kidding about that last part, btw. Please don't really waste your time analyzing what it all means. I'm just making fun of the things people pick at and the blanket reasoning for what's wrong with our society.

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I figure that on average the people who visit this forum are more literate than average, yet look at how illiterate so many people are.

Way too many people just don't read anything. Rather than criticize those who read trash, we should just be happy they read at all. Not everyone wants to read the classics.

It's like saying I have poor taste in music since I can't stand opera.

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Originally Posted by vraiblonde

My (not so) secret is that I have disdain for adult women who read a lot of teenager books. Yes, I'm talking to you, Twilight fans. Still shopping in the Juniors section, too?

I also think women who read those 50 Shades books need to find a guy so they can actually have torrid sex instead of just reading about it. And when a married woman says she reads them I look at her husband and think, yeah dude, ask your doctor if Cialis is right for you.

Sorry.

Edit: That would include Harlequin Romance & other similar "heaving bosom" novels.

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Originally Posted by MMDad

It's like saying I have poor taste in music since I can't stand opera.

It's more like saying you have poor taste in music since all you ever listen to is Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and Kelly Clarkson.

But that's just my opinion. Ya'll are certainly free to read whatever you want and don't need my approval (although you should).