Why do a lot of men hate Twilight so passionately?

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Does the same ring true for the Hunger Games?

I read it three years ago, and it was as good a way to pass the time as any other I guess, although I didn't know that much about bad writing back then. My future ex-girlfriend at the time also pressured me a bit, I must say . But I didn't hate it or anything, by then I'd already read Deathly Hallows more than once and I was looking for something else to fill my time.

The reason many guys rage at it, I'd say, is the reason many guys in general hate Justin Beaver and emos in an irrational way. Jealously and envy. What Edward and the other two have in common is, they don't fall under the definition of masculinity many guys are comfortable with, but many girls swoon over them anyway (there were A LOT of female emos around here, and they dated mostly male emos), and it makes their masculinity feel threatened, and the only way they can let that out is by bashing them. That's not the case with everybody, but I'd say it's like this for many.

My personal reason to not be that thrilled about twilight now is, it gives those who read it unreasonable expectations about men. I mean, look at what happened. Bella is a completely unremarkable girl, she says that herself. And then there comes this guy, who has a totally perfect body (but oh no she doesn't care about that), is stupidly rich (but noooo she doesn't like attention and gifts and she doesn't care he's rich, that would be so shallow!), and who absolutely desires her, just her, because he sees something special that nobody else sees in her unremarkable self. And yep, he had the opportunity to be with another beautiful, perfect vampire, but he chooses to be with her. He's also super strong, super athletic, reads the minds of everyone (except her) and can't live without her, It gave me the impression that Stephenie Meyer wrote herself as Bella, and her perfect lover as Edward, and then paired them together in her fantasy world.

I've got more analysis where that came from, but that should more or less make my point.

The twilight series is so poorly written it is laughable, also vampires do not sparkle.

Thank you, my friend.

Reasons I don't like Twilight, having read much of it out of morbid curiosity:

The writing is horrible. (It's like a dictionary had earth-shattering indigestion and shat all over the pages to an empty book.)
The characters do creepy stuff. (Greasing up windows so you can sneak into some chick's room at night without getting caught?)
The plot can be very very disturbing. (I'm never going to get the imagery of some bloody vampire baby snapping her mommy's spine out of my head.)
What the hell is with the sparkling pretty boy vampires? (By the Gods, if you're gonna be a vampire prettyboy at least try to be more like Damon or Stephan from Vampire Diaries.)

All in all, the whole lot of books are rubbish.

I like vampires a lot but I don't like Twilight. I'm not going to judge people that like it or say it shouldn't exist. Some people don't like the kinds of vampires I like.

Some of my reasons are different than other people's reasons.

1. No sexy biting. A large part of the reason I like vampires is because I find the idea of someone biting me and drinking my blood to be erotic. No such scenes can happen in Twilight because the Twilight vampires are venomous and have poor self control. If they bite you you will surely either be turned or dead.

2. It's basically a boring chick flick where one of the characters happens to be a vampire.

3. I've had enough of whiny vampires that hate what they are and don't want to bite people or drink human blood. I can only take so much of that.

I have never read twilight.

The hardcore fans confuse me. As in the ones that go crazy whenever people like Robert Pattinson show up. I would understand getting excited about a favourite celebrity showing up, but these people get completely hysterical.

Worst thing is that the author never visited Forks until after the first book. Forks had to totally change because of the stupid book.

I'm a girl and I'm not into Twilight. To be honest, I've never really been into the whole vampire thing.

Isn't Ginger Snaps a werewolf flick?

My personal hatred comes from hype not the content itself. So many women made the films out to be an amazing romance instead of a sexy chick flick. There's nothing wrong with sexy chick flicks but denying the true nature of the film was annoying. Yes yes of course you can enjoy your version of porn but don't criticise men when they enjoy theirs