Saturday, 24 October 2009
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Breaking News: Even Robert Is Sick of EC!
Poor Robert Pattinson. He did not ask this question himself, but from the looks of his statement, he is wondering (kind of early while his movie sequel is coming out) if you are all done crushing on Edward Cullen.I know I am NOT the type of guy who would write bout this (I care much too little about the whole phenomenon to talk about it any other time), but on the way home from a Subway commute, I read in the Metro newspaper that Edward Cullen is affecting his moment in the dating game...because some of the girls do not want to date Robert per se. They want to date Edward Cullen instead. You know that the dating scene is polluted when even Robert resents the fantasy man, instead of the "real man".
How about that?
If there is any perfect example of first impressions of a man or the acceptance of unreal expectations about a man let me tell you, this is it. More women seem to love the sweet and tantalizing day vampire than someone who has real life mistakes, and possibly enough swagger to snag one of those girls on his own, anyway. It's not even enough that Robert gets a lot of crap for being 15-year-old girls fantasies from men and hard-hearted girls alike, especially from those who hate Twilight so much that they wouldn't bust buttchunks on it. (I know you are there.)
Girls, what is your take upon unreal expectations of a man?
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I don't blame him. This is ridicious.
man.. all my female friends are obsessed (and they're grown adults, haha). sux for the non-blood suckers.
Millions of girls over the world would increase their relationship standards and thus, us men will always remain single.
Aw, poor Robert. How much money is he making off this again?
@gifteddork219@xanga - Hey, if I was single, I wouldn't even have a problem with that. But luckily not only am i not, but she doesn't really care for Twilight.
@MsKittyCatty@xanga - Are you insinuating that he is peddling 12-year-old fantasies for the ducats? Because I could believe that. I have seen and got to know the type of boys those girls like. I'm not surprised that Edward made such a big splash.
It's not just the Edward Cullen persona I think girls go crazy over..it's any man in a movie that goes over-the-top for a woman..doing anything for her..yet you never see the girl do so in return??
even our fairy tales give a similar idea with the knight in shining armor.
we're kind of groomed at a young age that a knight is the ideal man..so as we get older, and see a more watered down version of the "knight" in romantic comedies we feel the need to have that in reality..because we begin to compare fictional characters to our past and present relationships...in actuality no man can be that ideal, and no woman can either. we're perfect in our imperfections.
typically, the idea of a "knight" is just a phase...most girls get out of that stage the older they get, when they understand they can have a guy who doesn't have to fit the mold entertainment has set up for us.
that's why with the edward cullen craze, you are only seeing young teenagers going bananas.....because really, have you seen any woman above the age of 30 really and truly care as much as they do?
I would go on a date him for who he is! I'm not really a fan of EC or twilight myself, but he seems like a really cool guy. :)
As for unreal expectations, yeah it does tend to happen. But think about it this way; the person who chooses you over an "ideal" guy is down to earth. which is always a good thing! It goes both ways.
he has a point.
get over him already.. clearly he has
I think that if your'e talking about the "unreal expectations" like wanting a vampire that sparkles in the sun, you are absolutley right. I think what women are really attracted to about the character is that he's a gentlemen, and he would do anything to keep her safe and prove to her that he loves her. I think men today could take some lessons from Edward..
You dont have to be perfect, but you could grow up a little. If you really love her. Show it! Prove it!
I noticed someone else here mentioned that;
"It's not just the Edward Cullen persona I think girls go crazy over..it's any man in a movie that goes over-the-top for a woman..doing anything for her..yet you never see the girl do so in return?? "
Well, If we are talking about Twilight here.. Did you read the book? She does do anything for him as well.
I think Rob knows exactly what he's doing by saying he can't get a date. He's making all kinds of girls feel sorry for him. I don't. He's getting more play than all of us combined.
Oh dear.
That is, sadly, the part that comes with being famous. You are someone else, whether you try to be or not. I can't stand when my friends fangirl over Edward Cullen. I like Twilight, but because of the storyline. Not the characters. I find it somewhat tedious that they are so engulfed in the idea of dating someone like Edward Cullen.
Perhaps that's just because none of the males in that movie fit my "type," though, and I have no right saying such things as I just did.
But it is quite ridiculous, and I feel sympathy for the Robert Pattinson for having to deal with such a hype.
But, if he keeps up hope, maybe one day he will find that special one that does not look at him as his sparkly romantic counterpart on screen.
Girls have to wake up, in my opinion. As much as I love "crushing" on fantasy guys, I never want to date them. It's IMPOSSIBLE. They're NOT REAL. I see someone admiring their character designs, their roles in a book or movie or video game, etc. But what I don't see is why girls forsake perfect men for fictional gaywads like Edward Cullen. Or they try to look for someone to be their "Edward". Disgusting.
I don't even want to get started on how much I hate Twilight and how that poor excuse for a book series grinds my gears, but honestly-there are REAL men with REAL personalities out there....books and other media give such unrealistic pictures of what a romance is supposed to be like.
I'm much to realistic to let fantasy mess me up, but I can see how easy it would be to have unrealistic expectations. There have been times where I've had to reality check myself. I should have just commented on your site...
I don't think that all of the expectations are ridiculously high. As the above poster said, he's a gentleman. He protects Bella, takes care of her. He loves her. I don't see how that's a problem, really. She's obviously a priority in her life.
However, she is his NUMBER ONE priority all the time. If I had a boyfriend, I wouldn't expect to be his number one, all the time. I would expect him to put God over me all the time. Sometimes, I would expect him to choose his family over me or his friends. In certain situations, I mean.I loved Twilight when I first read it, which was spring of 2008. I got the books as a graduation gift from my best friend. I thought they were fabulous. Then I read the fourth book and was disappointed. Then I saw the movie and was slightly disappointed again.
Then the teeny bopper 14 year olds mauled the ever loving jesus out of the books, and now I'm ashamed to wear my most comfortable, warmest hoodie because it has Twilight on it.
Seriously, these little girls freaking out over "OMGZEDWARD IZ SO HAWT!!$*71?!" and buying all this overdone Twilight crap give REAL fans a bad name. It sucks. I feel so bad for Robert and Taylor (bc I'm sure he gets the same thing now that girls are screaming in movie theatres over him being shirtless), and I wish people could appreciate the series for what it was instead of making it a "hot boy fest" and making it into this ridiculous overdone craze
@gifteddork219@xanga - I definitely hear you on that man
It's kind of creepy how young girls find an abusive stalker like ~Edward~ to be the ideal man. Damn you SMeyer and your glittering "not actually vampires" fairies.
i like how everyone on xanga hates twilight, but twilight still lives on. i mean who else is there to like that book?
It's bad enough that I have giggling girls coming over to tell me that my boyfriend looks like Edward. I liked the series but I'm not fan crazed like the rest of these people seem. Damn.
I found it a little amusing when I heard that Pattinson got hit by a taxi because he was running away from girls that were chasing him. I know I sound horrible, but he barely got grazed, plus I pictured a cartoon strip of the events in my head, and that's funny. But I do feel bad for this guy. Those girls who obsess over him are scary. And dangerous; I've even been threatened by some. o_O
@x__RainOnHerParade@xanga - I completely agree. I read Twilight before all the madness. I got it as a Christmas present from my best friend in 2006. When I saw it, I asked her what it was about. I had never heard of it, and a lot of other people had never heard of it either. She said it was a vampire book she liked and wanted me to read it. I did, and I enjoyed it.
And then of course all the little girls decided that they wanted to get their hands on the books and overrate the hell out of it. Then the movie comes out (it was horrible, in my opinion) and everything gets way out of hand, and they now sell pretty much anything with 'Twilight' or Edward's face stamped on it. That's when I stopped saying that I liked Twilight, because I really do, since it entertained me (wasn't the best novel ever, but it was good enough to get me to keep buying the books), but when you say that you own the Twilight books, you get tossed into the crazy obsessed Edward fangirl category.
What's worse is there are people getting R.P.'s face tattooed on their bodies.
Real relationships aren't anything like fairy tales or Twilight books, and it's setting people up with totally naive concepts of romance, beauty, and perfection.
A friend of mine was a Twilgiht fan pre-craze, and I routinely heard her talk about how she wished she could find guys like Cullen and would talk about specific examples. From a guy's point of view, nothing is more confusing and irritating than trying to figure out how to compete with a fictional character. I think if I walked around saying I wanted a woman that was like Lara Croft or Megan Fox people would flip shit about how unrealistic it is and go on a tirade about the unfairness of men's expectations.
Edward's not even that flawless or amazing. Regular jealous, controlling, manipulative guy... Just paler.
I like Rob, Edward... not so much.
@MsKittyCatty@xanga - LOL love your comment!
Think he should stop bitchin really, he's getting millions plus alot of publicity and fans. He should have realized that a gay ass vampire story would only attract little stupid girls who now think that all men should be like Edward. Wishing that men act and look like Edward is like wishing Hogwarts really excists and in a secret place somewhere people are flying on brooms, yeh right. In both cases it's fantasy and it ain't ever gonna become real, gotta be pretty stupid to believe it will :p
Twilight is one of the most overrated things EVER! It's an OK story at best. It's just a phase and it'll go over in a year or two.
girls are stupid. like, EDWARD CULLEN IS NOT REAL. ew.