The other night I had a drink with a friend from school who was an undergrad and is now working post-graduation at the library. He's been bummed lately, but at one point he started out of nowhere about how when he was home in upstate New York during break at his parents' house, he came upon a Mormon blog, and since that one had like "blogs we read" links to like 50-60 other Mormon blogs, he kept reading and reading and reading these Mormon blogs, and when his parents were up at 6am the next day, they found him there still in front of the computer.
He said all of the blogs by were like early 20s couples, and they all had a ton of picture of kids with blonde hair and blue eyes.
He also said that on the day of the movie premiere of Twilight a lot of the Mormon women went to go see it, but as huge fans they were disappointed that the main male love interest is all and dark and pale and skinny, since they wanted him blonde and ruddy.
"You know Twilight, right?", my friend asked. "He's a vampire, but he doesn't want to fuck her."
He also said that the day after the election, there were a ton of posts about how worried they were about the fate of the country, and on the one blog where someone was positive and said that Obama was full of goodwill and might be able to effect good change, there was like a 100 comments from friends where the people piled on the woman and asked her what she was talking about.
"What group pressure there is in the Mormon community," my friend was like.
I told him he should read Deborah Laake's "Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond", and added that it was one of my two favorite books ever and is available on Amazon for $0.01, shipping not included, but he said that he's not that much into memoirs, and would rather read the classic Joseph Smith bio I recommended, which was written when the Mormon author woman worked library nightshifts on campus while her husband got his English lit ph.d.
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I love the link to Amazon.
You mean the "Secret Ceremonies" link? I'm glad it's so cheap, because it's affordable and probably the best book you'll ever by for one penny, but I'm still saddened, since it means that it's way under-appreciated.
Well, that's the tradeoff with penny books; in some cases, however, it means that it was so popular at one point that now there's a glut.
I'm only saddened that you can't add a fourth "d" to "saddened."
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