Fifty Shades of Grey depicts RAPE and has been criticized by BDSM advocates

[nadinbrzezinski]

297. You got it

I will take it a step further. They have yet to ask why women are interested in reading romance novels (talk about feminist research not starting at the obvious place since gasp, it is very popular and sells well among a certain subgroup of women. Harlequin knows this and makes millions over this. This is a sub-sub genre of it)

In their outrage they also gave incredible marketing to a piece of self published, later picked up commercial piece of so horrific writing...that should have remained in the ooze. They gave this what in the publishing industry is called heat.

I am in the process of actually gasp, I know, doing due diligence and reading this terrible book, trust me, I feel IQ points dropping.

The community that practices that kind of sex is outraged over the description of the practice. The description of journalistic practice is that bad as well, I don't think any professional journalism organization will waste their time with it. (Something about free publicity)

What the feminists here are not telling you is that this trope has actually empowered women, reportedly, in the bedroom.

Of course, the feminism I see here is nowhere close to what I remember, why I no longer call myself one. I broke real glass ceilings, but cannot even start to get even a smidgen outraged over this crappy book. Ok, I do...not over the book, the fact that this really abhorrent writing became a commercial success.

Maybe I should get going on the next outrage d'jour, and make sure they get pissed and start writing articles in journals...and generate that heat. Then, like this authors who has made millions, I can laugh all the way to the bank...suckers!!!

Oh and when their role in the marketing process is pointed out, they get angry.

By the way, this is so badly written, with bbbaaaadddd descriptions, terrible dialogue (crap, crap, holy crap every few paragraphs) and paper thin characters that I really don't give a damn what happens to the characters.

Oh and they worry about copy cats. There is plenty more, better written, of this in fanfic. Most of the folks who write this are perfectly adjusted people writing down their fantasies. This has been a very active field for decades, just not commercially. One of our pals in a writing group in Oahu used to do this kind of writing, she brought far better written pieces for the group before they went in to a usenet group dedicated to the genre. If you look into who writes this, they tend to be very well adjusted people, with a certain level of real power in the real world, and gasp, they tend to be women. A male friend shared his. He was one of the few men who writes this. He was published in something else, but used this to prime himself. Oh those were truly abusive pieces of crap. Maybe should contact him and tell him to publish under a pen name and we can get that heat going, for a split of the proceeds...

I was told by a few here that this novel is not the way to jump into the genre. I had forgotten we did help this other writer rewrite scenes for character for her usenet group. We never, ever, went into how realistic the sex scenes were. But I agree with the posters here, this book is not a good one to jump into it if you ever want to read it seriously. Hell, not a good one if you like escape literature.

But hell, watch the free marketing. They even got me. I had somehow managed to ignore the small brush fires for two years. This major conflagration got me real curious. The movie...will be a firestorm and they will give it all that free marketing. The publishers, and the studio...will laugh all the way to the bank.