YES. It makes me so angry when women lower their standards for how men should treat them. I was watching American Idol this week (I know, I know, feel free to poke fun, lol), and this girl came parading into the audition room wearing a tiny tiny bikini. She actually had a decent voice too — but I can’t believe they actually put her through to the next round, not only is strutting around for an audition in a tiny little bikini completely unprofessional, it’s obvious that the bikini was one of the ways she wanted to influence her way into the next round. And it worked! The guys wanted to put her through, and the girls didn’t.

Even just the ways in which parents dress their little girls — with little lingerie outfits, mini skirts, and scanty swimsuits — is horrifying. Obviously parents think it’s cute, and it makes me sad, because not only is this girl going to grow up thinking that society wants her to dress and act like that, but her own parents are encouraging it.

Basically it just makes me want to live out in the country with no television, lol! If I ever have kids I’m sure I won’t have cable, probably just one TV with a few good movies. Who wants their kids to be subjected to that garbage every day? It makes me cringe thinking what our society has come to.

Sarah, as a mom of boys (no girls!) I like what you say. . . I do want them to be polite young gentleman and treat women with respect and chivalry!

I just hope that girls realize that the level of love and devotion (or rather obsession) that Edward has is simply un-human.