Thursday, 17 November 2011
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Why Twilight Moms Make Me Sad
I consider myself to be a pretty nice guy. I love to give women honest free dating advice without degrading them like some other writers on this blog do. However, when it comes to Twilight my fangs and claws come out.
Now I have no problem with teenage girls emulating a franchise that promotes dry-humping, self-involved couples, teenage pregnancy and women changing who they are to please their emotionally-challenged boyfriends, because let’s face it: Teenage girls are retarded when it comes to matters of the heart. Let them have their delusional fantasies of how their love lives should be. They will learn the hard way.
However, I do have an issue with grown ass women that are proud to say they're Twi-hards. If you’re over thirty and/or have children and are anxiously awaiting to see Edward knock up Bella this week on the big screen, then I pity you.
I pity the fact that Twilight is the one thing you can look forward to for a “girl’s night out”. I also pity your dwindling love and sex life if you have to fantasize about boys half your age to truly get off or get worked up enough to give your lazy boyfriend/husband obligatory maintenance sex three nights a week.
I pity the fact that you watch this embarrassing love story and you somehow convince yourself that you wish you took more chances on your love life when you were younger instead of settling on the financially stable bore you have at home.
I pity the fact that you compare your significant other’s beer guts to Edward and Jacob’s laundry-worthy abs and think you deserve better.
But more importantly, I pity your melancholy existence if you let this franchise consume your taste in film and books and your ability to view your love life in a realistic way.
Now I have no problem with women that watch Twilight at home on a lazy Sunday afternoon just to see what the fuss is about. However, if you are one of those women that buy every In Touch magazine with Twilight co-stars on the cover, jill yourself while thinking of Bella’s reject werewolf lover and get misty every time a new TV spot airs on television, then you have my sympathy.
Grow up! Put some age-appropriate MEN in your spank bank and stop living a disillusioned life already.
So what do you think? Do you think I’m being harsh or just brutally honest?
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Comments (85)
Not a Twilight fan, but most of this just sounds like a guy who thinks he's a catch and likely isn't sounding all kinds of bitter.
You're being harsh. Edward is like 100 years old. Older women don't need further judgment from society.
I have to agree...mostly because you just described my aunt. -_-
hahaha this was funny
I pity you for the fact that you're throwing all grown women who enjoy Twilight into the obsessed group. \
My mom loves the series but she doesn't act like the typical Twilight obsessed little girl. She even asked me to go with her to see the premiere. But she's also been really into vampire stories since she was a teen, mostly the scary movies.
"Put some age-appropriate MEN in your spank bank"
'Nuff said.
it just shows they have terrible taste in men. the twilight male actors are ugggggly-_-
I hate Twilight as much as the next person, but let them have their horrible tastes in what they like to call "vampires". I just won't take them seriously.
I think it is unfair to lump all fans of any book/movie/band/etc into one category.
So who cares if an older woman likes the Twilight series?
Whatever happened to "age ain't nothin' but a numba?" (as long as that number is 18 and up).
@LoveeeLikeASunset@xanga - @magswags@xanga - did you even read the article? He said he was speaking about the women who are obsessed with it, not other fans of the series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8
i love twilight. but i'm not obsessed. I understand it just as fiction but it's fun once in a while to read a book and get thrown into another world whetheror not it makes logical sense or not. Same thing goes for the movie.
but hey, if people want to be obsessed about it, why should I care? How is it hurting me?
meh. I feel like if you're a mom and your kids like it's a good way to connect with your daughters and enjoy something. I haven't really encountered any obsessed moms like you described.
Older women are just people, like every other person. All people have their fetishes or weak points, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference who you are or what it is, someone somewhere is going to think you are nuts for getting passionate about whatever it is you are passionate about. No biggie.
You're an expert on their love lives? And who cares about age? How do you know what chances they may or may not have taken in youth? Gimme a break.
twilight is overrated. the moms are just fantasizing about a perfect man, which does not exist. just let them, the movie ppl make money and the moms are happy. win-win. twilight haters can stay out of the way and find something else to obsess about.
For some reason I kept reading, "I pity the fool.."
Either way, I totally agree with this and in many ways this matches my own sentiment towards the franchise. Bravo.
Well Ed is like 150 or something right? Sooo technically he's older than the moms, and that makes it ok. Taylor (forget his characters name) on the other hand...
As far as being obsessed? I think it's their right, whether it makes sense to another person or not. I'm not living their life, so there is nothing there for me to make a call on. In my case, I've not watched a single movie in the series, nor is it something I've wanted to do. That being said, I am very much in to reading books of that nature (Anne Rice being just one of the authors) & have been since I was quite young. I suspect we all have an opinion on what we find acceptable or unacceptable. It is the human way & life would be so very boring if we all thought a like.
I did enjoy the blog.
I don't know, honestly, I don't see a big deal with it.
I've been obsessed over series before (Granted-- not Twilight-- it's a wee bit too cheesy for me!)
and it's just for FUN!
I mean, if some people enjoy obsessing over it; why beat them down about it?
I can't think of any way that it is hurting anyone. o-0
And most fans probably aren't the over-obsessed types, anyways, that's probably a select few.
(I'm sure there's a lot, but it's probably not the majority by far!)
I pity the people that obsess over HATING the Twilight fans.
I mean, SERIOUSLY, where do YOU get off on judging them?
Seems to me like something may be wrong with your own life if that's how you get your kicks!
Twilight is just stupid. Enough said.
other people's choices should not have any bearing on your emotions. I don't see what the big deal is, but then I am sure there are people who don't get my fascination with the endosymbiosis theory. I don't agree with their tastes in books, movie, or film, but I don't pity them.
You make an awful lot of assumptions, sir.
Also, does this apply to all older women who read any kind of romance novels?
Yikes. Judgmental and overwrought no? Twilight is loved for its goofiness and over-dramatization just like some people love telenovelas for the same thing, or just about any other take-your-pick tv series on the air these days. Maybe somewhere out there, there is an over-thirty woman who is making waaaay too much of this franchise. But enjoying the eye candy and laughing at the drama doesn't mean someone has a 'melancholy existence' or that their taste in film and lit is entirely dependent upon their opinion of ONE book series. It just makes them human.
Soooo ya, chill, dude. You never watched a movie because a hot girl was in it?