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Thread: Shades of Grey
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09-17-2012 #21
Re: Shades of Grey
Originally Posted by Wendy Summers
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09-17-2012 #22
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09-17-2012 #23
Re: Shades of Grey
Originally Posted by Wendy Summers
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09-17-2012 #24
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Re: Shades of Grey
typical example of how packaging can make an otherwise unremarkable book into a best seller
before clit lit became popular there was a trend in chick lit a few years ago where if the cover in certain style it was guaranteed to be a best seller.
I swear if they had repackaged Das Kapital with a stick woman with a handbag on the cover and the title in quirky letters it would have sold by the bucket load
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09-17-2012 #25
Re: Shades of Grey
Thought this might be a Sasha Grey thread. Dang.
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09-17-2012 #26
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09-17-2012 #27
Re: Shades of Grey
I agree with Prospero. It's a poorly written porn novel. I'm just a little surprised at the number of women I've seen reading it or discussing the book publicly. I'm all for sexual liberation, but screw this double-standard. If men are often chastised and disciplined as deviants for browsing through porn in public, then why should women be allowed to wet down bus seats and park benches doing the same shit?
I'd understand if there were some kind of intelligible merit to reading 50 Shades of Grey, but E.L. James has the writing prowess of a 14-year-old. There's simply nothing enriching about a story in which a millionaire fucks his sex slave over and over. In fact, the message the book seems to put across actively conflicts with the views most feminists and women's liberation activists have been fighting against for generations.
There's nothing wrong with smut, but if I can't walk out in public with a porn magazine in-hand without causing some kind of social taboo, 50 Shades fans can keep that shit in the bedroom where it belongs.
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09-17-2012 #28
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09-17-2012 #29
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09-17-2012 #30
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