Twi-Moms Back Off, Edward Cullen is Ours!

Imagine this: you’re sitting in a movie theatre, watching the latest Twilight movie… suddenly Edward Cullen appears, and all around you hear the eruption of excited cheers coming from pre-teens, teens… and moms? No, you’re not imagining things. This may very well be what your trip to the movie theatres to see New Moon will entail.

They call themselves Twi-Moms, in fact there’s a whole website dedicated to mothers who are just as obsessed with Twilight (if not more) than your next-door 14-year-old neighbour is. Twilight make-up lines, events, contests and forums are just a few of the goodies that this site provides. It brings the concept of fan to a whole new level, if you ask me.

Now, being a 17-year-old girl and a slight Twilight fan myself, I can understand why the saga would appeal to a wide range of audiences. Hey, I mean Harry Potter appealed to adults, so why not Twilight as well? But here’s something that makes me cringe. A few months ago, while New Moon was filming in Vancouver and teen girls in the region were chaotically searching for the cast, instead of participating in the seemingly pointless search, I decided to go on Facebook – and what did I come across? Well, apparently a 37-year-old relative of mine (and a mother of two) had begun a very dedicated search for Edward Cullen along with her other Twi-mom friends. And let me tell you, they were very dedicated! There were daily reports of the status of her journey all across the Lower Mainland, and, after a few weeks of searching, she not only got a picture with the lovely Robert Pattinson (apparently they found him behind a bar at 4 am one night), she also got an article written about her.

Now, I don’t know about you, but personally I think this is a little outrageous. It’s great to like a series of books/movies, but to be an adult (they’re supposed to be busy, or at least that’s what I heard) and a mother and somehow find the time to spend hours a day chasing after a fictitious character is a little beyond me. All I have to say is I really hope all this Edward obsession dies down a bit, otherwise before we know it they’ll start having Twi-Baby daycare centres.