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⌈ Secret Post #2387 ⌋

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I'm not sure what you'd think of this situation, OP, but for me, I didn't read or listen to any of the sex parts and have only read the descriptions of the "worst" parts (the tampon scene, the "I think our unborn baby likes sex already" scene) but I severely dislike the feelings I get from that book. On its own, it would just be another poorly written airport novel, nothing special about it. But it's gone from "ha-ha, ok" funny to "Ok, though, seriously? Knock it off" obnoxious, and that's why, for me, I'd get vocal about it.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong (I beg you, seriously) but it doesn't seem like the public is treating it the way it did Twilight, where it's universally understood that "this is not how you vampire/let's mock the fans/this book is just bad and dumb". I get the feeling that there's more respect in the mocking. Like it's being treated... I don't know, like people aren't laughing at the sex with the same "hahaha no" that would be given to a thirteen year old's work on Fanfiction.net, but like "Hahaha, I can't believe she went there!" kind of mocking. And there's definitely a difference.

Let me try one more time to explain... are you familiar with Chick Tracts? To me, Fifty Shades is to BDSM what Jack Chick's depiction of gay is to actual gay men- an entirely wrong, offensive parody written by an ignorant fool's imagination based on what they gathered after ten minutes of observing the subject in question through a funhouse mirror. That's my level of annoyance about 50SoG. On the bright side, it's such an unpleasant feeling that I can't even get close enough to mock it, so after a little raging, I have to find a distraction so I can go back to forgetting that book exists.

(*For a less infuriating look at Chick, please enjoy this guy's hilarious page by page mockery.)

To me, Fifty Shades is to BDSM what Jack Chick's depiction of gay is to actual gay men- an entirely wrong, offensive parody written by an ignorant fool's imagination based on what they gathered after ten minutes of observing the subject in question through a funhouse mirror.

Exactly. I've always likened it to an alternate world where Christianity was a small, little-known subculture and EL James was actually legitimately convincing people that the Christian god was three-headed and demanded the sacrifice of a human infant every Good Friday (since babies are innocent, doncha know).

*I'm aware that BDSM is not a religion. However, I am very much a sub, and it is just as integral a part of me as, presumably, a belief in God would be to a Christian.

I'm so glad someone else sees it that way!

Right! It's not just being misrepresented ("Oh, you're a Poker fan? I know what you get up to- I read Fifty Spades of Gray, I know how you cheat at cards all the time and kick your opponents under the table. Oh well, to each their own") but also because we've got people thinking it's the norm of the subculture ("Hey, my poker dealer is hiding cards in his sleeve, but according to Fifty Spades, it's fine, it's how it works in poker.") and most annoyingly of all, preachy asshat one-book-experts who think they're oh so subversive ("I wish people would stop criticizing me for loving Fifty Spades. They do it because they're just fun police and are boring. They know they secretly want to play cards.*")

*That one came from an actual fan of the book. There isn't enough Sit the Eff down and Shut the Eff Up in the world for that link.

You make a good point.

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