Is anyone else sick of this whole, "OMG... I love Edward Cullen" fad?

I'd like to raise my hand and proclaim how tired I am of the whole Twilight-mania. Taking things a little further, I guess many people's frustrations with Edward (or Bella, for that matter) can be traced back to the author's writing style -- or lack thereof. Both Edward and Bella have faulty characters by literary standards.

Edward's is too ideal (Hot + Rich + Smart + Sensitive = You know it's fiction), while Bella's is simply too vague to define. The biggest Edward turnoff for a lot of people is probably the fact that a creature supposedly all-powerful and unafraid of death is suddenly simpering and lovestruck over a girl who lacks Vitamin D. And the fact that his pick-up lines are straight out of Animal Planet.

I know Edward's supposed to be (un)dead and all, but it would really have been appreciated if Meyer had given him more character depth than Dora the Explorer. And even if Bella has enough insecurities for the two of them, his having some non-romantic sensibilities would really help his case.

The reason young girls (and sometimes their mothers) get swept up in the whole Edward Cullen hysteria is because of what Edward represents. Stephanie Meyer wrote a book about an everyday girl who is loved my the most extraordinary handsome, rich and debonair man to ever walk the planet. Girls can easily see themselves as Bella and want to believe that their own personal Edward is out there, ready to sweep her off of her feet.

Girls not only want to be told that they are beautiful and irresistible, but they want to be told that someone finds them more irresistible and beautiful than every other woman in the world. While Twilight has some good parts, in reality it is just every plain girl's fantasy and that is why these girls get so hysterical. Don't worry the OMG Edward Cullen is amazing hysteria will die down soon...until next November anyway!

I know! It's overrated, I love the book and how it is written, but come on! I'm not obsess with a guy that's like that.

Some girls just pretends they like this guy because some girls like it. It's just a guy that is a vampire, and the say now that "the pale vampire" look is HOT?!?!

Its nice to dream about stuff that may exsist I luv edward cullen and its great movie.

I must be too old. Let me instead answer what seems like the larger question: "Why do girls like bad boys?" For each of the sexes, there are certain stereotypical features and behaviors that are characteristic.

Women tend to be smaller, less muscular, and more socially and emotionally aware. Men tend to be hairier, stronger, more technically inclined, and more individualistic. These are just tendencies, however, and the variation among men and women in these traits may be larger than the variation between the two sexes.

In other words, the two most different guys may be more different than the average guy and average girl. These differences arise from a physiological difference in our bodies. The higher levels of the hormone testosterone in men is responsible for many of the characteristic features of men, called the primary and secondary sexual characteristics.

Among men, higher levels of testosterone makes the related characteristics more pronounced - more body hair, deeper voice, stronger muscles, and perhaps more individualistic and thrill-seeking behavior. Now, because women and men have developed as a species to be interdependent, and because men were traditionally necessary to protect the women from other warring tribes and to do the hard manual labor necessary to live in prehistoric times, men with more testosterone(and women who sought them out) were more successful in finding a mate and raising large families than those with less.To the extent which this behavior is inheritable, this testosterone-seeking trait was more likely to be passed on to their children, and their children were more likely to pass it on as well. Over time, this created an instinct in women to seek out reckless, individualistic, thrill-seeking men.

In modern days, men are no longer required to protect their tribe from other warring tribes, or if they are, physical strength isn't the determinant of the outcome. However, this change has occurred very recently relative to the time over which physical prowess was a determinant of success, so there just hasn't been enough time for the instinct to fade yet. That's why girls still like bad boys.

They're unconsciously or consciously seeking out those traits which are indicative of high testosterone, greater physical strength, and risk-taking behavior. Exactly what traits are determinants for success in the modern era isn't yet known. Obviously, risk-taking behaviors are still useful, intelligence is becoming more important, but intelligence isn't favored as strongly as you might wish.

Current medical technology and social programs distort which behaviors are more likely to lead to people having more offspring which live to reproductive age. Our society has evolved past the point at which natural selection determines our future, and we can now choose where we'd like to end up. We can now take care of those who are weaker and less fortunate, and this is a good thing.

This is where intelligence and foresight have to become involved to properly direct the next stage of human evolution.

Wow, that was a huge rant, if anyone is obsessed with Edward Cullen I would suggest it was you for asking a question that even continues the discussion. The big question you need to answer is why are YOU so obsessed with understanding why edward cullen attracts young women....perhaps you want to learn these secrets in hopes that you will learn how to attract these women yourself, you may want to try a test run experiment one day and dress and act like edward cullen, amybe do it more subtley than outright vampire look, but try to emulate his aproach see what it is for yourself that is the real attraction for these women. Might be an interesting experiment.It always amazes me what women are attracted to.

Best of luck in your obsession to figure out what edward cullen has that us regular guys don't have.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.