Romance, Schmo’mance?
Yesterday I read this very thought provoking article called, "You Can't Marry a Hot Vampire". The article starts with saying how there was another article that made the assertion that romance novels are to women what as pornography is to men, that they work the same because they are rooted in illusion. Interesting right? But WTF does that have to do with Vampires? So, the author then talks about how Twilight is the penultimate in romantic / emotional porn for women because of what it stands for. You have a woman who has two different archetypes of the embodiment of the type of man women want. You have Edward, the "Prince Charming"- he's well-bred, polite and sensitive with an air of danger (to quote the article). Then you have Jacob…