Blood-Sucking Creeps that Prey on Young Girls...How Romantic

It is a phenomenon that is sweeping the crowded shelves of every bookstore in the nation...in the world. It is a wide-spread mania that is driving causing girls to scream with delight. It is a fad that that has suddenly replaced the brave and bold Harry Potter with the dark and daring Edward Cullen.

This event is known as...well we all know it...as Twilight.

And where on earth has it come from? Besides the mind of a BYU graduate, it seemingly came out of thin air and instantly all the little girls are loving it-without any rhyme or reason. It sounds like something Disney would do, you know force something to become famous, whether the world likes it or not.

With the end of the epic Harry Potter series, young-adult fantasy authors clamored to take the throne that J.K. Rowling abdicated. And Stephanie Meyer came out of nowhere to seize it before experienced fantasy heavy-weights like Neil Gaiman or Garth Nix could make their claims. Sadly, Mrs. Meyer's novels aren't exactly as uni-gendered as Harry Potter was...sadly, it is ultimately one-sided...to young, tween to teen girls. Boy, now guys can't even peruse through the young-adult section without looking like their trying to find the next Twilight novel or one of its ridiculously-covered copy cats.

Which brings me to my next point-all of those stupid-looking books that have been copying Twilight's vampiric story-lines and dark romances. Their covers are stupid looking with teenage girls leaning against pale, sleek looking guys dressed in black but out-of-this-world-good-looking who are obviously vampires. It is the sort of things teen girls are going after now: lip-gloss, Hannah Montana music, Zac Efron movies and the blood-sucking un-dead.

Whatever happened to the days when vampires were purely gross and gruesome and reserved for Gothic people who try to file their teeth into fangs? I wonder how Gothic girls feel about their beloved Lords of the Night becoming adored by glitzy, giggling tween-agers? It's kinda like Hannah Montana doing a tour with Marylin Manson.

I wonder how many parents know that their children are reading about a young girl getting seduced by a blood-sucker who stalks her-and later impregnates her with a child that tries to eat its way out of her. Not so innocent as we thought-huh?

Well, at least the demon-baby wasn't born out of wedlock.

I've heard from several friends who have read the books-I even read a little bit of the first book on a rainy day (I was really bored and I wanted to know what all the hype was about)-and they all say that the main character Bella becomes super-hot AFTER she becomes a blood-sucker. The novels are also fraught with sexual undertones that are covered by Edward not wanting to "bite" Bella, but Bella kind of wants to be "bitten"-If you get my drift.

Hey what's better than spending eternity as an undead creature who has to drink blood to survive-as long as you get to spend it with the one you love?

Being seventeen forever isn't as fun as it sounds now is it?

I'm not one of those people who think that Stephanie Meyer is trying to corrupt the young girls in our society-I really don't think she is a bad person at all, but her novels aren't exactly as kid-friendly as we all want to believe.

It is really weird though-parents from every loop in the Bible Belt were up in arms against J.K. Rowling for her "satanic" series that taught kids witchcraft-when in fact she made up her own spells from Latin words-take Latin, you'll see what I mean. But I have not heard a single parent, besides my own mom, speak out against this dark, sexual and glittery-gothic series. At least J.K. Rowling didn't have sex in her books-excessive kissing yes-but no sex.

What I want to say is-if blood-sucking, cannibalism and the undead has suddenly become the new "hot", then our society is really going drain-in a very unexpected way. Perhaps its a Gothic ploy to make being pale the new tan.

Now that would be scary.