# What type of guy likes Twilight? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483 "2010-03-23T15:41:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/81 "2010-03-27T21:58:25Z")
We’ve watched the first half of New Moon with Rifftrax. It’s worse than Twilight was. Second half tonight; if I never post again, you know the pain was too much to bear. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/82 "2010-03-27T23:23:04Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > I think once you argue that killing grizzly bears with your bare hands, and drinking their blood, is lame, you are grasping for it. Really, I think it depends on how you spend your free time. For example, I kill THREE grizzlies every morning before breakfast, using only my right thumb (my left is FAR too powerful), simply as something to do to kill time while the coffee brews. I take it you are one of those folks who watch the morning news instead. _sigh_ > [@](#): > > I dunno. There are now many vampires who don’t murder people. Angel, True Blood, Anne Rice, etc. Btw for a vampire who really is gay, contrast Interview With a Vampire. Actually, Angel has killed LOTS of people, even when Buffy takes place. He got the nickname apparently because he’s just too pretty, not because he was like, nice or angelic or anything. The whole not-killing thing is mostly during the times when he has a soul (he’s lost it again on a couple of occasions) To answer the OP, a friend of mine in the Air Force likes Twilight. He’s a jet mechanic who greatly enjoyed the two years he spent stationed outside of Las Vegas. He claims that he enjoys the movies because the girls are hot, but it’s also possible that he just enjoys them because they’re bad, judging by his DVD collection. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/83 "2010-03-27T23:33:54Z")
I don’t, because I’m not gay. Or Mormon. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/84 "2010-03-27T23:38:55Z")
> [@halfliquid](#): > > I have a coworker who’s 28, a virgin, and still lives with his parents who went to see Twilight and New Moon with his mother. > > He said he really likes the vampire and werewolf. > > **I think he’s a closet homo** , or maybe he just wishes he was more masculine-daring-supernatural? You don’t say! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/85 "2010-03-27T23:42:11Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > You don’t say! :eek: In fairness, my best friend is a 26-year old virgin living with his grandparents. He’s just incredibly lame. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/86 "2010-03-27T23:44:54Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > I have to admit… > > I HATE Twilight HATE HATE HATE HATE. > > Wimpy, sissie stupid ass ‘vampires’. > > Any ‘man’ who admits to liking Twilight will have his man card taken away and have that card completely and utterly destroyed. > > {I posted a thread on this when I found out my daughters ‘boy’-friend likes Twilight.} > > GAH! > > 🙂 Let me guess: he also has floppy, dreamy hair, and owns multiple pairs of skinny jeans, the crotches of which are constantly worn 3-4 inches below where they were meant to be worn. Amirite? ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/87 "2010-03-27T23:57:26Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > I don’t really understand this meme. I think Twilight is a terribly bad story, and so not watchable, except for those people where appealing themes rate higher than quality. > > But I don’t see how the vampires are particularly “gay”, in any sense of the word. Yeah, they sparkle. But other than that? He is a 100+ year old guy, who still goes after young girls, and desire to kill her by drinking her blood. How is that gay? Don’t know about the vampires. But the werewolf? Totally gay. [Contact Taylor Lautner - Address, Agent, Manager & Publicist (RECOMMENDED)](http://www.movieeye.com/celebrity_addresses/upl_images/scans/140274/Taylor_Lautner-r841672.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kathmandu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kathmandu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kathmandu)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/88 "2010-03-27T23:59:52Z")
One of my main problems with Twilight is that Edward has lived for over 100 years, and presumably had a myriad of experiences and met innumerable people, but he’s interested in an insipid, mopey, insufferable sixteen year old? Come on. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/89 "2010-03-28T00:00:57Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > But he is not weak. He is supernaturally strong. And how is he girly? Not to be unkind, truly, but if you can’t see it just by looking at him, I don’t think you’re ever going to be able to see it. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/90 "2010-03-28T00:03:42Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > even if a guy was watching a movie to get in a girl’s pants, deep down inside he doesn’t LIKE the movie itself. i mean, i took a girl to see “fool’s gold” but that doesn’t mean i LIKED the movie. > > i did take a girl to see “the devil wears prada” in hopes of getting into even more panties and ended up liking the movie. that in turn made me start watching Ugly Betty. the latest incarnation of my unhealthy obsession with fashion is me reading: > [Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster: Thomas, Dana: 9781594201295: Amazon.com: Books](http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-How-Luxury-Lost-Luster/dp/1594201293) > > that i picked up from a waldenbooks closing sale for $2. > > the question still stands. WHO LIKES TWILIGHT!? Seconding the love for _The Devil Wears Prada_, and adding _Project Runway_ into the mix. Those entertainments represent the cool kind of gay. _Twilight_, of course, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/91 "2010-03-28T00:04:16Z")
> [@MeDrewNotYou](#): > > I watched the first one a few days ago. It was enjoyable in the same way _Plan 9_ and _Battlefield Earth_ are- Insanely bad acting and story. When the credits rolled, I was surprised to see no “Alan Smithee.” > > \ > > There’s just soooooooo much stupidity, presumably in the book as well. The book is actually even worse. While I was watching the movie with my friend there were several points where we said “They managed to make that slightly less dumb than the book”, such as the scene where Bella goes shopping with her friends and is menaced by a group of young men. In the movie, Bella leaves her friends to go to the bookstore that she’s already looked up online. She gets to the bookstore with no problems, buys the book she wanted, and on her way back encounters the group of stereotypical frat boys she’d seen earlier. In the book, she leaves her friends to go to a bookstore one of them told her about, but when she finds it she doesn’t even go inside. She looks in the window and decides to go find a _better_ bookstore even though she doesn’t know where anything in this town is. She then wanders into the warehouse district for no apparent reason and keeps wandering around until she encounters a random street gang who herd her into a trap. Neither the movie or book scenario is especially brilliant, they’re really just excuses for Bella to be threatened with rape and for Edward to roll up and save the day, but I give the screenwriters credit for making the situation somewhat more plausible and not forcing Bella to behave like she’s brain damaged. > [@](#): > > \*I think, though, that the series will be good for today’s youth, or at least the boys. When _I_ like a girl, I have to think of stuff to say, work up some courage, and introduce myself. Now a boy can just be as creepy as hell and stalk a girl and she’ll think he’s nice and sweet. Kids these days… \*I don’t think I’ve ever screamed “OH GOD NO!” while watching an actual horror film, but I did when Edward suddenly materialized in Bella’s bedroom – and then confessed that he did this on a regular basis because he enjoyed watching her sleep. (I wasn’t expecting this because I didn’t make it that far in the book.) Back in my day that sort of thing was considered bad manners. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/92 "2010-03-28T00:10:33Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > I actually want to see the scene of the movie where they cut the baby out of the annoying main character. > Just to see how they do it and keep the movie PG or PG-13… Oh, agreed. _Breaking Dawn_ may be the only _Twilight_ movie I consider watching. Yeah, but I probably still won’t. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483/93 "2010-03-28T06:50:19Z")
> [@kathmandu](#): > > One of my main problems with Twilight is that Edward has lived for over 100 years, and presumably had a myriad of experiences and met innumerable people, but he’s interested in an insipid, mopey, insufferable sixteen year old? Come on. It’s an interest in the unknown. He cannot read her mind. BTW, you guys are aware of the metaphor, right? Edward is the celibate male who can understand all his male friends, but he suddenly meets this girl who he cannot understand. He’s been taught that sex is wrong, yet he so violently wants it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-guy-likes-twilight/533483.md?page=4)