I’ve figured out how Twilight and Football are the same
Girls supporting Football is like guys supporting Twilight: most of them are just doing it to cull favor with the opposite sex by demonstrating acceptance for their coping mechanisms. Genuine enjoyment of the sport/fiction among the opposite gender of the typical audience is rare.
This is because both are usually vapid and bland for uninitiated spectators.
In spite of this, sometimes (albeit rarely) both display elements of sexiness that can be used for the purposes of advertising.
Both are largely used as a social channel to vent hormones and therefore serve an important purpose to society whilst simultaneously declaring their historical value impossible to ascertain from the text/football game alone. Twilight and Football both highlight what’s wrong with New Criticism: context can sometimes be more interesting and relevant than content. If you want to make either Twilight or Football sound their best, make sure to document what they’re doing for illiterate emotionally damaged/stunted people the world over, as well as the economy: especially the halo effect on the book world (See: Harry Potter). Case closed.
P.S. - As an aside for the sensitive I should note that generalizations about both Football and Twilight (and their fans) are not to indicate the illogical pattern–If you like A or B, then you are necessarily C–but rather that most people who like A or B (as in more than half) fit this description. If you are better (as most people think they are) than the stereotypes associated with the object of your interest, then so be it. My point was to draw a comparison: if you feel like your taste is insulted, then bear in mind that we probably shouldn’t talk about books or sports since you can’t accept conflict in your conversation. Seriously, isn’t it okay for us to like different things?
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Comments
I like being loud/obnoxious, i enjoy beer and hot wings, and love highly sociable situations.
I am a Girl.
and I support football.
but you’re not wrong, I do capitalize on the fact that I’m typically the only female enjoying what is on the screen during a game - and can up my femininity by declaring that while I like watching men in spandex, I have a hard time following all of the fouls.
Also, twilight sucks. I don’t need to read or watch the movies to guess that its probably about a step up from the Babysitters Club books (Boxcar Children?) and a step down from Harry Potter (Anne of Green Gables?).
RAR!
Ok so you only forgot one thing sir. Those people who actually enjoy it.
There are some women who actually enjoy football and go to games and stuff (RARE)
as there are guys, such as myself, who enjoyed and got something else out of reading and watching Twilight then just a need to satisfy this girl you like. I read it and wanted to keep reading it because I was intrigued by the story. Not saying that she is a great write considering that fact that I found ENDLESS errors in there and it could have been much better but it was interesting. Then again I like almost everything sooo I have a skewed view.
But yeah good observation.