You know what I will never understand? How a book series that glorifies grooming and pedophilia performed excessively well in public sales and merchandising. How many millions read and watched as a one hundred year old vampire wooed a minor, impregnated her, and had her child imprinted on by another adult? It’s disgusting. And yet so many celebrated each novel’s release. The culture around it was strong enough to induce factions akin to the Harry Potter houses. Is it really any wonder why we have so much trouble weeding out these problems culturally?
People decry child pornography with one hand and celebrate it with the other. The simple fact is if you read the books and didn’t find them problematic, you would be wise to take a deep look within and understand why that is. “It’s just a story,” you may argue, and yet the “stories” of children across the globe are very real, stories of parents and older cousins and strangers taking advantage of them. It’s fine in a book, but not in real life?
If you think it’s fine in a book, you’re part of the problem. You’ve already comprised your morality for the sake of some drama.
