all the lonely people...

Boys don’t understand Twilight.

Boys don’t understand why girls will throw themselves into a poorly written set of novels and swoon over a man that doesn’t exist. We girls understand that despite the less-than-stellar literature, the books provide us with endless hours of imagining the perfect man going after us.

We understand that this is what we want and somehow, unconsciously even, we realize that it’s pretty much impossible to have the perfection of a relationship like that (on this earth at least)

In my – haste – snobbery – I have often thought, “Well if men were more romantic, we wouldn’t need to dream about Edward Cullen.”

It wasn’t until I said it to a guy friend and he called me out on it that I realized that guys do this too.

Women come up with unrealistic situations of perfectly romantic men who sweep us off our feet and sincerely want nothing more than our happiness.
Men come up with unrealistic expectations of women - perfect women who sincerely want nothing more than the men’s satisfaction.

Twilight = porn.


[disclaimer: the sweeping generalizations have been noted. take my thoughts with a grain of salt. My point is not to say that girls don't watch porn and boys don't read twilight - I'm simply comparing the two]