An evolutionary flaw

I understand that people find large eyes cute because cuteness is about the only thing keeping us from abandoning stinky loud babies. However, why does this large eye induced cuteness reaction occur even with other mammals. I remember when I was younger, I saw my cat sitting on the carpet in dim light. Its pupils were dilated and this made the eyes look really big. Of course, I thought the cat looked cute so I went to pet it. Bad decision and I still have the faint scar to prove it. It appears that our evolutionary drive to protect cute things extends to other mammals as well, especially their young. Of course, approaching wild animals especially young animals is a bad idea since their parents also find them cute and will do anything possible to protect this cuteness. I wonder how many stupid people (who feed baby bears or climb over zoo fences) will have too die before humans evolve to a point where they are unengaged by babies of other mammal species? Unfortunately for us, natural selection takes a long time to work.

Twilight = emotional porn

Just a note: the term emotional porn as it relates to the Twilight phenomenon is not of my invention but I think it is a good descriptor of the series. Also, I do not hate Twilight or the people who like Twilight. I have in fact even watched the first movie (although this was mostly due to our free movie channel trial subscription for the month).

You might think that porn is a mighty strong word for this especially since there is no explicit nudity (except for the shirtless guys but that seems to be acceptable in our society, especially if they have a six pack); however, if you consider the definition of porn then it might make a little more sense. In a general sense, porn is the use of media to depict explicit imagery for the purposes of arousal. Oftentimes, an pornographic film involves ridiculous scenarios in which an average male (seeing as how most porn is targeted to the make audience) is seduced by one or several attractive females and proceed to have a ridiculously long period of "love making" with a little bit of plot sprinkled in to make things interesting. If you consider that this arousal does not specifically have be sexual, then Twilight and especially New Moon fit into this definition. Lets see, the plot for New Moon is as follows: An average girl (instead of a guy) is in a ridiculous scenario (where there are vampires and werewolves) and is seduced by two attractive (apparently) men/vampire/werewolf and then proceed to have a ridiculously long period of "who will she choose" with a little bit of plot sprinked in to make things interesting. This comparison is not intended to make Twilight seem dirty or give it a negative connotation but it will be interesting to see how girls who watch these movies multiple times are perceived by the general public. There will probably be some girls who become addicted to watching "emotional porn" just like some men become addicted to sexually explicit pornography. In which case, I wonder if the boysfriends of these girls will become jeolous and confront them about their addiction?