Eat your peas, women! (50 Shades of Grey)

[kadymae]

The OTW newsfeed has a pretty interesting roundup of links about this book over here.

For those of you in my F'List who don't know, 50 Shades started life as a BDSM Edward/Bella Twilight fanfic, Master of the Universe. The author ended up "filing off the serial numbers", revised and expanded, and published ... gee, women like to read spicy (and

Comments

[devohoneybee]

As I said to you once before, and you *cough* repeated widely, "my pussy is not ideological." I read the 50 shades trilogy, and while there was MUCH to snicker at (that a good beta should have flogged out of the manuscript), it was also a romping good tale, with some lovely, hot scenes, with actual character development, and definitely an "alternative to the Red Room of Pain." The female character, far from resigning herself to a submissive role, completely changes the rules of the game, so that BOTH characters learn and grow.

[hippediva]

Bennett is a right wing stooge and a fool. Why in hell would any sane person of any gender bother with his 'edicts from the porcelain throne'?

[jasonfranks]

"If women really want to be liberated they should stop choosing the books that they like and instead read the books that I, a better-educated and intellectually-superior male, say they should."

Brilliant stuff.