[ SECRET POST #2967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect I'd have similar feelings if I read FSOG.

I do think much of the criticism is likely valid but lacking in nuance. For example, I see a lot of people say it may affect young people and push them toward abusive relationships, which I can buy as being true (the things we read rarely ever have zero effect on us), but it also tends to gloss over how the majority of the readers are older women in healthy relationships and readers who recognize the standard ravishment romance tropes when they see them. They also don't mention that many people hate-read the books and there is a very large group of people in agreement that FSOG portrays an abusive relationship. While yeah, we should talk about the effect on readers who can't tell abusive from romantic, we should also look around and recognize that there are way more types of people and reactions than people being like, "Christian and Ana are so romantic!"

The type of criticism I hate and think is utterly invalid, though, is the outright kink-shaming/sexuality-policing kind, which claims that without media like this and the patriarchy, women would not have rape fantasies. :/ Criticizing FSOG from the angle that its popularity will make men assume that all women secretly want to be raped or at the very least that all women are turned on by sub roles is actually legit (as I've seen a bunch of men basically say exactly that -- UGH). That I get. What I don't get is why people need to make women who do enjoy rape/ravishment fantasies ashamed for enjoying the things they enjoy in a way that's self-aware and doesn't hurt anyone. Luckily, that kind of criticism has been pretty rare. (These people never mention or explain why men have rape fantasies either.)