Fifty Shades of Grey 'aka' Fifty Shades of What the hell is this?

[riath]

I'd like to start this review out on a serious note. I confess that I am quite disturbed that this book/series is being promoted as "romance". Nothing could be further from the truth. The character of Christian Grey is abusive, manipulative and above all controlling. This is what most people would classify as prima facie domestic abuse. I'm not

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[raeyn]

I'm not really hip to the gif/image posting, but hells, has to be done:

[riath]

Heh, this was the best way I could think to put it that would be understood.

And yay, bunnies!

[riath]

This is my point exactly! I've heard about women saying they are going to go find their own Christian Grey. And I'm like "Why? Why would you subject yourself to such abuse?!" It makes me want to weep.

Post is now public, so link away.

Re Arthur: I thought you might like that. =D His expression is perfect in the circumstances.

[lusimeles]

so much applause for this entire post, seriously.

[riath]

Thanks! Sometimes I find that gifs say it so much better than I could with words.

[lusimeles]

honestly 50 shades does not even deserve words :(

[adrian_and_sela]

I haven't read the book but cracked up when you mentioned how she described her vagina as "down there". Was this actually written by a woman? And whipping her pregnant stomach...no. Just no. Not. Sexy. Not in any universe.

Boy, I wonder what the film will be like. Or maybe I'd rather not wonder.

[riath]

It's actually a woman. A middle-aged woman with two teenaged sons apparently, at least according to Wikipedia. First time I've ever heard a grown woman, character or author, refer to their privates as "down there". Good grief. *rolls eyes*

I predict the film will be a train-wreck with an avalanche piled on it. I certainly have no interest in seeing it given how bad the books are.

[thegrownupthing]

I wish I could pass this around at work as well, but I'm not sure if it's public, and I don't really want my work to find my LJ through comments, haha. But I just stopped my right hand person from buying it (because she'd heard that "apparently it was good" from her sister, who is one of the dumbest humans alive) and actually I seem to have started a trend of hatred for this book within the workplace.

However, some woman was reading it on a bench in the shopping centre when I arrived the other morning. First, I'd be ashamed to be reading it in public. Second, I sometimes enjoy reading smut but NOT before 8.30 in the morning, what the fuck.

Anyway any anti-50 Shades post is automatically in my Top 10 Best LJ Posts of All Time. :)

oh, I forget actually, about the film. I am disturbed at the thought that so many women who claim to be otherwise "disgusted" by porn, and I mean visual porn, will be queuing to watch it. It's an awful double standard.

[riath]

It is public, this entry so if you wanted to link anyone to it in private, you can.

C's office is divided, all the women are swooning over it and the guys all hate it. They asked him about my opinion on it and it seems to amuse them that I loathe it.

I'm currently reading a dystopia/male to male erotica at the moment, but I certainly don't read it at 8.30 in the morning. And compared to 50 shades, it's practically Shakespeare. Ok, maybe not quite that but I'm sure you get the idea! =P

I keep wondering how in the hell they're going to get 50 shades past the MPAA ratings board considering it's pretty much sex and not a whole lot else. And I agree, it is a pretty ridiculous double standard.

[thegrownupthing]

I would, but I can't because they'd identify me from my comment and I can't have that :P

I think the guys at C's office must be jealous that C gets the one superior thinking woman ;)

Haha good thing we're on the same page on that. You know, some people are at their horniest in the morning. I'm also sure that that woman must have felt so liberated reading it on a bench in the middle of people, and it makes it even sadder how some women think that reading this drivel = sexual liberation. Oh god I wish I could brainwash them all into sanity.

I've discussed that with someone and he seems to think it'll have an 18 rating, but I disagree. If they want to make big money they will need to water it down to a 15 rating.

[riath]

Maybe they are jealous, lol. I know I'm not really like any other woman they've met.

The thing about this book and sexual liberation is that it's really not. I think it may be doing damage to feminism in encouraging women to find and submit to controlling abusive men because they read it in some piece of "literature". Women spent decades struggling for respect and equality and along comes this book and gets millions of women to think that abuse is actually romance.

If they strip out stuff to make it a 15, they're not going to have much left. Someone else's review said these books are about 90% sex and the rest drivel. The film Boys Don't Cry got slapped with a NC-17 over sex scenes but the ratings board didn't have any problems with the graphic murder scene. Not sure how they're going to deal with this, I predict a fight between them and the studio.