FOYT | Leave our fairy tale alone
If there's one thing "Twilight" has taught us, it's that vampires make good boyfriends.
They're impossibly good looking. Apparently, they have perfectly tousled hair, they're charming and protective.
But most importantly, they're chivalrous.
Sure, Edward Cullen is dangerous because he can suck your blood, but he's chivalrous because he doesn't.
It's a long dead concept, but Cullen is an undead 17-year-old from another time, and while he has adapted over the last 100 or so years, he still clings tight to these knight-like rules of courtship.
And so without seeming sexist at all, our favorite vampire seems to do everything from opening her car door to completely defending Bella Swan's honor.
Life in a world Post-Third-Wave Feminism, this concept is pretty taboo. If nothing else, it's at least discouraged by the independent, I'll-buy-my-own-drink-and-carry-my-own-groceries-thank-you-very-much women like myself.
Though, if you ask a group of girls if they would mind being swooned by a hot vampire who can fly them around like Superman, you probably wouldn't find too many opposed to the idea.
Lower-budget "Twilight" was a complete surprise success when it hit theaters last November. Still shocking, the sketchy special effects and mediocre acting didn't deter fans from buying more than three million DVDs during its release Saturday.
In Mount Pleasant, an anxious line of 1,000 people snaked its way throughout Wal-Mart in the hours leading up to the midnight release, many afraid that they would have to leave the store empty handed.
Despite the overwhelming popularity of this movie, and vampire fiction in general, girls are still taking on a lot of criticism for liking "Twilight."
Literary and film elitists regard the series to have no value and guys can't seem to restrain themselves from rolling their eyes each time they hear gushing over the fictional character that, females understand, could never exist in real life.
We get it, OK? It's not the greatest book ever written or the greatest movie ever made. But, we clearly like it.
It's not about how realistic it comes across, the special effects or how scary it is.
Sometimes you just want a story. A complete gentleman who happens to have magical powers and will never leave you waiting by the phone (like a mere mortal) makes "Twilight" off limits and therefore really attractive.
So, until you want to step up to the level of some fictional vampire, stop complaining.
Just let it go, let us have our fairy tale.
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