THE JU: yet another

Okay so there are so many blogs on here about Twilight. The one below this that Em wrote made me pee my pants a tiny bit. What I'm about to write isn't funny. I just need to sort through some shit going through my mind.

I am a Twilight fan. But before you stone me in the street I'd just like to say a few things:

1. I don't EVER want a man I'm with to sparkle
2. The fact that Nordstrom has a line of Twilight apparel and cosmetics makes me want to strangle innocent things
3. I find Robert Pattinson sexy for reasons that are completely seperate from the movies
4. I understand that the concepts of tabooed love, and sexy vampires are 100% unoriginal
5. Stephanie Meyer is to literature what the Jonas Brothers are to music
6. I will go to the midnight show of New Moon with gold contacts, only because I will not let the scene around something I like keep me from enjoying it, no matter how much that scene makes me want to pull out my fingernails and shove them into my own eyes

Here's my thing:
The Twilight fad is absolutely fucking ridiculous. And it angers me as much as the next person how much attention it is getting when, in all reality, it lacks originality, talented actors (with the exception of Dakota Fanning) and sensible artistic details. It baffles me that something completely void anything good is so popular.
And then I started thinking, why is it so popular. I mean it sucks, and everyone complains about it. In fact people that hate Twilight have just as many Facebook groups, and blogs as the super fans. So why on god's green earth is it so successful.
And then I realized, it's the people it is geared to. "The Twilight Saga" (p.s how the fuck did it get classified as a saga?) is geared towards prepubescent girls, and lusty old women. Two large target audiences, widely held to have absolutely no taste. So maybe that's why I (and most of the people I choose to associate with) don't understand.

It's the same principle as why I don't understand books about the wiring of cars; I am not the intended audience. Because surely if the people marketing Twilight were trying to hook me and my friends they wouldn't be going about it like they are right now. They'd be keeping it somewhat underground, true to the book, and do a hell of a lot better casting a female lead than Kirsten Stewart.

So my frustration is merely a product of the fact that I am no longer in the age group that huge fads are targeted to. It doesn't excuse the fact that it sucks, but it puts its popularity into perspective. The reason Twilight is so fucking nauseating is because the fan base is too.

Of course young teenage girls love all the shirts that say "Screw Being a Princess, I want to be a Vampire" and "Bet You Can't Read My Mind". It's because they're young, naive, and think they're hot shit. The same reasons why 15 year old girls scream to the lead singer of Boys Like Girls that they want to have his babies. They are, for lack of a better synonym, completely fucking retarded.

Unfortunately, the world is full of Jr. High School girls who haven't yet realized that they're ridiculous. Which is why Twilight, and the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus for that matter, are so popular.

Our parents went through the same frustration when The Spice Girls and boy bands hit the fan in the 90s. Don't get me wrong, Spice Girls are (to me) classic, but compared to the music of our parents grew up with, the Spice Girls were horrible. And we loved them because they were marketed to us.

So there we go. Twilight is horrible because for some reason that is what sells.

God damn it what is the world coming to.