"We learn how to kiss watching movies, we learn how to lie, how to fight, we learn how to break up—all the things we used to learn by observing each other, we now learn by observing a few highly paid stars. We can’t help but compare the lives we lead to the fictional lives we consume. We’re encouraged to live vicariously through the impossibly exciting lives of fictional characters."

Dan Savage. Skipping Towards Gomorrah, p. 62.