# My daughters boyfriend needs to turn in his man-card **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297 "2009-11-20T16:24:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/21 "2009-11-20T19:07:27Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > even a film like Titanic - the ultimate chick flick romance - had lots of guys wanting to see it as well :dubious: Just who are these so called “guys”? ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/22 "2009-11-20T19:25:03Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > The other day, my wife mentioned to me a story about people camping out for a day or two to see this movie – rightly, I called them “utter losers”. She pointed out to me that I camped out for the re-release of _Star Wars_. > > Yes…my wife actually compared fricking _New Moon_ to _Star Wars_. We’ve weathered a lot together in 10+ years of marriage, but I’m not sure if our relationship can survive this affront. Well they are both incredibly plot thin, cheesy and over-rated by fanfolk who think there’s some kind of actual quality of story or character in what’s actually a vacuous mess. Maybe that’s what she meant.😃 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/23 "2009-11-20T19:27:25Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > :dubious: > > Just who are these so called “guys”? The kind who think that Leonardo DiCaprio is dreamy. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/24 "2009-11-20T19:33:38Z")
I liked Twilight, dammit! I mean it wasn’t great, but it was atmospheric if nothing else. I like the Pacific Northwest, cept for all the rain. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/25 "2009-11-20T19:53:08Z")
> [@](#): > > The movie started at 12:01 (so technically Friday release)…last night daughter was laying on the floor sleeping…boyfriend was playing Playstation waiting for the time to head out to the movie. Wait, shouldn’t he have just been standing there watching her sleep? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/26 "2009-11-20T20:06:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wait, shouldn’t he have just been standing there watching her sleep? I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/27 "2009-11-20T20:26:28Z")
> [@](#): > > I like the Pacific Northwest, cept for all the rain. Isn’t that kinda like liking the Atlantic, except for all the water? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/28 "2009-11-20T20:28:52Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Isn’t that kinda like liking the Atlantic, except for all the water? No, there’s big-ass trees and vampires and stuff too! ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/29 "2009-11-20T20:44:59Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I like the Pacific Northwest, cept for all the rain. Come to the rain-shadow! Here in Seattle/Tacoma it isn’t nearly as bad as on the Olympic Peninsula. A mere 36 inches of rain a year. Compare that to NYC with something like 45 inches. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/30 "2009-11-20T20:50:18Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > :dubious: > > Just who are these so called “guys”? I think we both know the answer to that. They’re Skrulls. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/31 "2009-11-20T21:03:16Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#): > > Yeah, but it’s a double standard, chicks dig bad boys and tough guys etc. and although they SAY they want the soft, kind, sensitive men, they don’t. Wait, which camp do sparkly vampires fall into? > [@buttonjockey308](#): > > But if a chick pulls up a chair for CoD or rents Drag Me To Hell, she becomes a commodity among the fellas. Just how it (seems to) work. _Drag Me to Hell_ wasn’t a chick flick? It was all about a female protagonist trying to make things work at her job and with her boyfriend and his family. Sure some other stuff happened with a demon or whatever (a _lady_ dmeon, might I add), but the rest was a total ovaryfest. ---
**Author:** ![kombatminipig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@kombatminipig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kombatminipig)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/32 "2009-11-20T21:21:07Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Oh, come on. Y’all survived the sheep incident, aye? You can make it past this. 😃 Speaking if which, he sends his regards. He was able to take his first steps again only the other week. He also mentioned that you could have at least sent a card. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/33 "2009-11-21T00:21:36Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > :dubious: > > Just who are these so called “guys”? Well, _this_ guy (15 at the time of release) was interested in the last hour of the movie and the copious amounts of nudity available in a PG-13 movie. I wasn’t that interested in it at the time until I was informed of the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/34 "2009-11-21T00:38:53Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Wait, which camp do sparkly vampires fall into? They are training bad boys for teenage girls. Before girls can get into someone like Don Draper, who takes control of women by sticking his hand up their vagina, they need to work with sparkly vampires first. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/35 "2009-11-21T01:13:33Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Another possible explanation: > > Twilight and New Moon employ the “two trailers” theory of movie marketing. One trailer with all the gushy romantic stuff and one trailer with the kickass fight scenes. More than likely, he just got snowed by the Hollywood marketing machine. > > Plus, he likely didn’t mention another reason he’s looking foward to it, the movie is filled with hot girls. You mean the theater is filled with hot girls, right? Because the only fledgling hot girl I saw in the trailer is (I hate to say this but she IS growing up)… Dakota Fanning. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/36 "2009-11-21T01:41:59Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > … but even a film like Titanic - the ultimate chick flick romance - had lots of guys wanting to see it as well. It had Kate Winslet’s bosom _ **and half of it was sinking the freaking Titanic in real time!** _ What more does a movie need? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/37 "2009-11-21T01:48:20Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > :dubious: > > Just who are these so called “guys”? They’re the guys having a nice mochaccino latte while trying to decide between the new Michael Buble and Cher CD at Starbucks. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/38 "2009-11-21T01:53:46Z")
> [@Epimetheus](#): > > Come to the rain-shadow! Here in Seattle/Tacoma it isn’t nearly as bad as on the Olympic Peninsula. A mere 36 inches of rain a year. Compare that to NYC with something like 45 inches. Yeah, but NYC get that in erratic downpours. Seattle has 345 days a year of fine mist :). ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/39 "2009-11-21T02:27:33Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Yeah, but NYC get that in erratic downpours. Seattle has 345 days a year of fine mist :). Only 220. And then only of clouds, and not even all day. After all, there is a reason Seattle has the highest sales of Sunglasses. Rain + sudden sun = blinding glare. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297/40 "2009-11-21T02:44:13Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > It had Kate Winslet’s bosom _ **and half of it was sinking the freaking Titanic in real time!** _ What more does a movie need? **Titantic** could have been a great 90-minute guy flick. Unfortunately, it was swamped by 100 minutes of chick flick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-boyfriend-needs-to-turn-in-his-man-card/518297.md?page=3)