The furor around 50 Shades of Grey isn't about what happens in private bedrooms

[freshwest]

14. I see it as conditioning and desensitizing. Like the Handmaiden's Tale.

Like Cheney, Rush and Fox saying waterboarding isn't torture. Like the media calling civilian dead collateral damage. Like television shows showing the human body being tortured, mutated, twisted into things to be used by...

Who, and to what end, it is never asked. But it's like a train wreck that people can't get their eyes off of.

There is a lot of media that has always painted an image of women as things to be used, to vent anger on, to ethnically cleanse, for profit, whatever. The same media portrays men as sadists, killers and tools of war to be discarded when broken. Not human.

It's part of the coarsening and tone deafness to each other being presented to the youth and others in the nation to titillate and take their eyes off the powerful.

To make less meaningful the fact that the powerful are torturing workers, animals, the planet and humans for profit and as sport. Yes, it's sport to do this and it's treated as entertainment. They are teaching us their values.

And refusing to face the facts of what to some are obviously lesser people's lives, fears and pain is our loss. We ask the same questions over and over again about why they gravitate toward religion in the face of those who dismiss their pain for sterile arguments about rights and freedoms.

It's about feelings. It's about respect. It's not about critiques of style or art but real lives that see the daily desensitization of pain and disregarding the poor, the unpopular and the vulnerable since they are not attractive enough to have a market value according to media.

There really can't be a DU discussion about this that does not end in mockery. So I seldom ever join into threads about the rights of the vulnerable at DU. And I have just stated my ideas and what is deeper than a movie or book. No one will agree with me, okay.

And my not indulging the mockers at their demand I answer them, is my right, too. People can ignore those who feel differently, but IRL I know many who have shifted to the right as their refuge on such. By disrespecting them, they will leave us, because we are refusing to allow them to talk. BTW, I'm not going anywhere. EOM.