My hot take that everyone will hate is the fact that so many women read crap like Twilight and whatever this nonsense might be is just as harmful (and perhaps more so) to women’s psyche and ability form relationships as men watching porn.

Yes, I know women watch porn as well. I worked with a woman porn addict who got fired for storing gigabytes of it on her work machine. But men watch more of it.

I think the difference is that for men, porn is mostly instrumental. It’s for getting off and then is quickly forgotten. But for women, Twilight and the like is aspirational — they really believe deep in their hearts that they will find someone like Edward or whatever the hell is happening in that Mountain Bullman book. I don’t mean a sparkly vampire, but just someone that unreservedly devoted and uncaring of your flaws or that you’re the size of grain silo and about as capable of walking up a mountain.

Women’s expectations have increased greatly while men’s prospects have declined. These two factors are partly (but not wholly) responsible for the loneliness epidemic. And that so many women are into “literature” like Twilight and the Fifty Shades series certainly has a lot to do with that epidemic too.