The way I explain boy’s (and just males in generals) opposition to Twilight is like this;
Twilight and Edward Cullen in particular are the realization of the worse fears that any male has ever had about all females-that you can be a nice, normal guy, but that the girls will always go for the emotionally distant and abusive douchebags who treat them like crap as long as their pretty, slightly mysterious-ish, and they occasionally say vaguely deep thing that are really BS, which is why the male reaction to Twilight amounts to “GRRRRRR!!! FRIGGIN’ HATE EDWARD! MUST DESTROY THE SPARKLIES!!!1!!1!!”.
Having to deal with Twilight either reminds older males of the rejection of girls in high school, or reaffirms everything boys currently in high school already believe to be true. about girls in high school.If guys really think that, they haven't read the book (of course I can only speak for the first one, I haven't read the others). I fully agree Edward's behavior can be seen as creepy, what with the
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And the whole "I'm nice, therefore I deserve..." Some guy posted on imdb "Why Do Good guys Never get Laid?" (yes, that was the actual title of his post on the message board) and I couldn't resist, I responded "because they whine about it?" Why do so-called Nice Guys have to advertise it? If you really want to be nice--i.e., decent, a mensch, a person who maintains a baseline level of courtesy--why not just do it because it's the nice thing to do? Instead of doing it so you can wave your Nice Guy flag and therefore get laid? Is it a tactic or is it who you really are?
As someone who has been on a receiving end of more than one bitter diatribe from an entitled Nice Guy, I, uh, had a few thoughts on the subject.
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The way I explain boy’s (and just males in generals) opposition to Twilight is like this;
Twilight and Edward Cullen in particular are the realization of the worse fears that any male has ever had about all females-that you can be a nice, normal guy, but that the girls will always go for the emotionally distant and abusive douchebags who treat them like crap as long as their pretty, slightly mysterious-ish, and they occasionally say vaguely deep thing that are really BS, which is why the male reaction to Twilight amounts to “GRRRRRR!!! FRIGGIN’ HATE EDWARD! MUST DESTROY THE SPARKLIES!!!1!!1!!”.
Having to deal with Twilight either reminds older males of the rejection of girls in high school, or reaffirms everything boys currently in high school already believe to be true. about girls in high school.If guys really think that, they haven't read the book (of course I can only speak for the first one, I haven't read the others). I fully agree Edward's behavior can be seen as creepy, what with the ( ... )
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You might be interested in my two entries deconstructing the self-styled Nice Guy:
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Clicky #2
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And the whole "I'm nice, therefore I deserve..." Some guy posted on imdb "Why Do Good guys Never get Laid?" (yes, that was the actual title of his post on the message board) and I couldn't resist, I responded "because they whine about it?" Why do so-called Nice Guys have to advertise it? If you really want to be nice--i.e., decent, a mensch, a person who maintains a baseline level of courtesy--why not just do it because it's the nice thing to do? Instead of doing it so you can wave your Nice Guy flag and therefore get laid? Is it a tactic or is it who you really are?
As someone who has been on a receiving end of more than one bitter diatribe from an entitled Nice Guy, I, uh, had a few thoughts on the subject.
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