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st_owly
Joined: 20 May 2008
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 Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:39 pm
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Nice to see I am Here! make the list. The main girl was very easy for me to empathise with.
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Lizzie_B
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 4:30 pm
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Not to be mean, but why do people seem to like Black Bird so much? Just asking 
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Sewingrose
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:03 pm
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| Lizzie_B wrote: | Not to be mean, but why do people seem to like Black Bird so much? Just asking |
Same reason people like Twilight, it's a bodice-ripper style of story telling. Where the drinking of blood symbolizes sex, and you can have a lot suggestive plot points.
I just wish that so much romance stories weren't anti-women.
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KENZICHI
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:27 pm
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| Lizzie_B wrote: | Not to be mean, but why do people seem to like Black Bird so much? Just asking |
I always ask myself that same question.
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Spotlesseden
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:38 pm
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i think mostly girls like Black Bird. I know couple of them very like Black Bird. Unless you are a chick, you won't know why.
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Sewingrose
Joined: 11 Jan 2011
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:04 pm
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| Spotlesseden wrote: | | i think mostly girls like Black Bird. I know couple of them very like Black Bird. Unless you are a chick, you won't know why. |
Yeah, and you can in fact be female and find that series disgusting and it's popularity disturbing. You know like me.
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Jaymie
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:35 am
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| Sewingrose wrote: |
| Spotlesseden wrote: | | i think mostly girls like Black Bird. I know couple of them very like Black Bird. Unless you are a chick, you won't know why. |
Yeah, and you can in fact be female and find that series disgusting and it's popularity disturbing. You know like me. |
This. I'm totally turned off by how smutty Black Bird is, and I'm disturbed that teenage girls are acting reading this S&M nonsense.
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Sewingrose
Joined: 11 Jan 2011
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:59 am
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| Jaymie wrote: |
| Sewingrose wrote: |
| Spotlesseden wrote: | | i think mostly girls like Black Bird. I know couple of them very like Black Bird. Unless you are a chick, you won't know why. |
Yeah, and you can in fact be female and find that series disgusting and it's popularity disturbing. You know like me. |
This. I'm totally turned off by how smutty Black Bird is, and I'm disturbed that teenage girls are acting reading this S&M nonsense. |
I don't have any problems with teenagers reading smut or S&M based stories actually, to each their own. I have tremendous problems with them reading misogynistic books like Black Bird and Twilight that promote abusive relationships and treat them as "perfect". Books where the entire point is how valuable a female character is because she's a virgin, and the entire subtext is that she should only be defiled by her true love after they marry. Oh boy do I have a problem with those books, in comparison teenage kids reading BDSM porn? Doesn't remotely bother me.
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