50 Shades of Parasitism
Me: 50 Shades slut-shames women who dare to be kinkier than the heroine and treats BDSM as something resulting from mental illness.
Public: OMG DONT TELL WOMEN WUT 2 DO STOP SHAMING WOMEN 4 LIKING 50 SHADEZ U MISOGYTNISTIC OPRESSOR!!11!1
Me: But I never said anything about the audience--
Public: DUNT B A PRUDE!!11
Nice to know that pointing out a book romanticizes abuse means I'm kink-shaming someone for their fantasies, even though the series makes it explicitly clear a sexually-confident woman is to be regarded as complete scum of the universe under Ana's feet.
It won't matter if I explain and defend myself until I'm blue in the face. No one will listen.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised the movie's making money, no matter how much I cross my fingers and pray that it'll bomb. But now it means the next two movies (or THREE, if they decide to go with the "split-the-last-book-into-two-movies" fad) are going to follow me for the next few years like a parasite that won't fucking detach.
I don't care if I'm overreacting. I don't care if it's "just a book/movie." I don't care if there are worse things out there, like The Turner Diaries or whatever the hell people are saying about American Sniper. I'm allowed to be upset about more than one thing, even if it isn't as "lethal." I'm just sick and tired of people writing off kink such as BDSM as something only "damaged monsters" are into while abusive-but-rich-and-hot-and-heteronormative and double standards are glorified. I'm tired of E.L. James' smug grin as she rolls in the pile of money she doesn't deserve. I'm tired of being shut down just because I'm a "kink-shaming prude feminist who doesn't like fun."
This miserable series just won't go away.
This post has been crossposted with Dreamwidth at http://shamanicshaymin.dreamwidth.org/110564.html. Pick your poison. Mwoiiiiiiiing~!
Public: OMG DONT TELL WOMEN WUT 2 DO STOP SHAMING WOMEN 4 LIKING 50 SHADEZ U MISOGYTNISTIC OPRESSOR!!11!1
Me: But I never said anything about the audience--
Public: DUNT B A PRUDE!!11
Nice to know that pointing out a book romanticizes abuse means I'm kink-shaming someone for their fantasies, even though the series makes it explicitly clear a sexually-confident woman is to be regarded as complete scum of the universe under Ana's feet.
It won't matter if I explain and defend myself until I'm blue in the face. No one will listen.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised the movie's making money, no matter how much I cross my fingers and pray that it'll bomb. But now it means the next two movies (or THREE, if they decide to go with the "split-the-last-book-into-two-movies" fad) are going to follow me for the next few years like a parasite that won't fucking detach.
I don't care if I'm overreacting. I don't care if it's "just a book/movie." I don't care if there are worse things out there, like The Turner Diaries or whatever the hell people are saying about American Sniper. I'm allowed to be upset about more than one thing, even if it isn't as "lethal." I'm just sick and tired of people writing off kink such as BDSM as something only "damaged monsters" are into while abusive-but-rich-and-hot-and-heteronormative and double standards are glorified. I'm tired of E.L. James' smug grin as she rolls in the pile of money she doesn't deserve. I'm tired of being shut down just because I'm a "kink-shaming prude feminist who doesn't like fun."
This miserable series just won't go away.
This post has been crossposted with Dreamwidth at http://shamanicshaymin.dreamwidth.org/110564.html. Pick your poison. Mwoiiiiiiiing~!