[ SECRET POST #2967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #424.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets (also too big anyway) ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: OP here!

[(Anonymous)]

i liked your secret OP, and I agree with it. I feel like a lot of people think women are stupid and soft and maleable and can't tell teh difference between fiction and reality, which is upsetting.
i like messed up horror, but i don't want it to happen irl. the consent in this scenerio is with the reader and the book. not the fictional characters within.

Re: OP here!

[(Anonymous)]

i like messed up horror, but i don't want it to happen irl. the consent in this scenerio is with the reader and the book. not the fictional characters within.

Yes yes yes. This is so much more succinct and what I wanted to put across. I totally understand that it has problematic elements, but it's just so weird, you know? You come across people in fandom being all 'it's okay, YKINMK' and supporting people liking or being into different things and writing incestuous child porn one minute and the next 'oh anyone who reads 50 Shades is a terrible person and absolutely must believe and support its views'. Like, excuse me? No? It doesn't work that way?

I agree that there are some really problematic elements in the marketing of the book and how it's portrayed sometimes, but I think that making general sweeping statements about everyone who enjoys it and just assuming they automatically CAN'T know what they are talking about is really silly. Do some stupid or less well-read people enjoy it? Sure, I don't doubt that. Does that mean everyone who enjoys it HAS to be stupid or less well-read? That's what a lot of people think, and starting a discussion about a piece of work with 'well first I'm going to presume that you're dumb' is basically a horrible way to get anyone on your side, ever.

Re: OP here!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, come on, the comparison doesn't work. Fifty Shades being marketed as a romance novel is the same as marketing The Hunger Games as an education manual.