Steven Spielberg's The Lolita Effect

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This is from the book The Lolita Effect. In this section is the main idea of the book talking about how media has made it okay, and sometimes encouraged, to treat women poorly and violently that it is a major issue in today’s society. “There is no profile” This is what the FBI and Secret service reports and recommendations said when they were trying to explain that loners didn’t fit the ‘profile’. They said that student threats were almost completely random and had no grouping more than they are almost entirely all male. This is from Columbine. Dylan and Eric were fantasizing about how this would be made into a movie and were deciding/choosing who would get the ‘honor’ of directing it, “Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino?” This was talking

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