Fifty Shades Darker--Chapter 7 (Part II)In which Christian Grey acts tense and guilty and Ana doesn't notice; Ana has a conversation with the woman who molested and sexually enslaved Grey when he was a teenager; Ana forgets that an escapee from a mental institution wants to kill her and/or Grey; stalking is stated IN THE TEXT to be an act of love;
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Fifty Shades Darker--Chapter Six (Part I)In which Ana deludes herself into thinking that having sex means that the relationship is perfectly okay; a white male adult refers to a non-white male adult as a "boy"; Ana is shocked by the idea of sex in the afternoon; Grey's supposed phobia about being touched becomes ever more inconsistent; Grey admits
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Fifty Shades--Chapter 20Trigger warnings for sex as punishment (i.e. rape), sex as punishment for a woman who doesn't understand why the guy wants to punish her, a woman begging a man not to hit her, a man getting angry and entitled because a woman said no, sex as a medium of exchange, vilification of sex workers, sex toys and anal kink
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In which Ana's lack of underwear becomes a plot point, James disregards Ana's clumsiness in favor of making Grey dance beautifully, the chapter produces a couple of stealth references to Frank Sinatra songs, Ana has an emotional meltdown is introspective, and Grey's alleged preference for BDSM is blamed on a female child
Fifty Shades--Chapter 17 (Part I) In which Ana has a Symbolic Dream, compares herself to Icarus yet again, gets lectured and victim-blamed by email, is afflicted with yet another inappropriately expensive present that she neither needs nor wants, has her car confiscated, and completely forgets that she had sex with Hellspawn, both consensual and
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In which Hellspawn bullies Ana in emails and threatens and victim-blames her in person; Ana tells Hellspawn that she didn't like being beaten and that she doesn't want him to do it again, and he tells her he could tell she was physically aroused, because of course involuntary physical reaction and the emotional
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I have a cell phone through TracFone's free phone program. Don't get indignant; you have to be below the poverty line to get this. I would be much happier to be well above the poverty line and able to afford my own phone. Because SafeLink is a Romneyesque company: it is constantly threatening to cancel my account
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50 Shades--Chapter 14 (Part II)Christian Grey manages to be an asshole while handing Ana her diploma, Ana’s stepfather meets Grey, Kate outs Grey (though not in the way that you're thinking), there's a chilling moment straight out of a horror movie, Grey manipulates Ana into giving him everything that he's asking for, and Ana misquotes Thomas Hardy
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