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Then came...THE BETRAYAL...
Stewart was discovered to have been cheating on the beloved R-Pattz with her Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Graves.
The ensuing scandal was, well, actually quite funny. Granted it wasn't funny to the cuckold Mr. Pattinson or the humiliated Mrs. Graves (and their children) who had to endure the world finding that they had been fooled by their respective partners. It was also humiliating to both Stewart and Graves to have their 'momentary indiscretion' so publicly revealed.
What WAS amusing, at least to me, was in how others took the news. A whole gaggle of little girls (and those who think like them) were DEVASTATED, emotionally wrecked, knowing that one particularly vulgar girl (seriously, does Stewart have to use profanity in even the most basic and mundane conversation?) had not lived up to their own rather vapid romantic fantasies.
These fans could not figure out that Stewart is capable of being just as foolish as any of them. They could not understand that Kristen Stewart was human, one who could fall into temptation. They instead saw that a romance they had invested in emotionally, that between fictional characters that had carried over into real life, could possibly be filled with human failings.
All they saw was that Kristen Stewart, one half of a Dream Couple (in more ways than one) had betrayed someone these perfect (perhaps perfectly insane) strangers elevated to near-divine status. As far as they were concerned, Robert Pattinson was/is PERFECT in the same way EDWARD CULLEN is PERFECT. They could no longer tell fantasy from reality (thus strengthening my case that Twilight fans shouldn't be allowed to vote, but I digress).
These people were upset about another woman caught in a "momentary indiscretion" with a man not her boyfriend. They simply had put so much of themselves into Bella/EDWARD CULLEN and/or Kristen Stewart/Robert Pattinson that they behaved, perhaps even thought that Kristen had betrayed THEM!
I'm snobbish enough to have always thought Twilight fans were intellectually weak (yes, I mean stupid), but this is manna from Heaven for me. There are people out there who are so wrapped up in both the lives of the fictional Bella & EDWARD CULLEN but also of Robsten that this dalliance has upset them so terribly. Why is beyond logic: they don't know them personally, they've probably never met any of them and perhaps only from a distance or in passing. Why THEY should take a fling of a stupid girl so to heart is simply inexplicable.
As far as I know, none of the people who issued death threats to Stewart or appeared so devastated about some bad actress schtupping her older/married director knew anyone involved personally.
Instead, these poor people were upset that their fantasies were being shown to be that: fantasy. Yes, romances between co-stars do emerge, but for the Twihards (or as I lovingly call them, Twilight Twits) there really was very little to no separating the fiction of Bella and EDWARD CULLEN to the reality of Kristen and Rob.
When I went to the El Paso Comic-Con, or EPCON, I wandered into the Twilight Society forum. When one of the leaders asked if people liked Kristen Stewart, I heard a few "no". I was amused that these multi-tattooed women and their pre-teen daughters could be so mesmerized by THESE characters that an affair could taint their image of a lousy actress.
I'm not a fan of Stewart or Pattinson. They both show again and again they cannot act. Still, what they do in their own private lives is of no concern to you. If you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality then you really are even less educated than I give you credit for.
I have news for all of those who are so emotionally spent from this Trampire scandal. Twilight is a badly written book. The prose is inane, the characters dead (in more ways than one), the female lead shockingly narcissistic and self-absorbed. Well, perhaps I've answered my own question as to why so many women love it.
Really, all you middle-aged women,
GROW UP AND GROW A BRAIN!
LEAVE KRISTEN ALONE!
PLEASE!
GO READ A REAL BOOK!
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