THE JU: Understandable

So I think that by now everyone knows that this is the new face of "sexy".

Robert Pattinson. The man that portrayed the most popular fictional character today, Edward Cullen, in the film rendition of Twilight.

What people may not realize is that for every swooning woman/teenage girl, there is a butthurt guy who hates this face, and what pop culture has made it to stand for. Now I realize that the obession many girls have today is ridiculous, but the attraction is understandable.

Stephanie Meyer created the man that every dad wants their little girl to fall for. Every father tells his daughter to wait for the boy that calls you beautiful instead of hot, who treats you with the respect that men had for women in our grandparents time, who loves you just as much as your dad does.

So is it really so ridiculous for girls to gravitate towards this Edward character? Boys is it that weird that women want to be with someone who loves them so completely? It is so unreasonable that some of us refuse to lower our standards because men today are too lazy to be decent boyfriends?

Now I'm not defending the starstruck preteens that make their obsessions obvious in obnoxious ways. They're just as nauseating to me as the next person. And I'm not telling guys that they'll never get a girls if they aren't flawless vampires, I'm just saying that the attraction to a respectful, artistic, sweet, good looking guy is completely understandable, and natural. It's almost a refreshing change of pace from the codependendt girls I see daily who will settle for any smarmy guy who shows any interest in them.

Boys, if I wrote a book about a girl who looked like Megan Fox, was up for anything in bed, did all the house work with out complaining, and loved you unconditionally wouldn't you have some sort of a facination with her too?

We don't expect you to sparkle in the sunlight, or smell strangely alluring, we just appreciate a man who holds the door open, and offers a jacket when it's cold outside, and we can't help but wish for someone who loves us the way Edward loves Bella, for her details.

Maybe if those qualities weren't so hard to come by today, Edward Cullen wouldn't be such a phenomenon.