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50 Shades of Cultural Poison
Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2015 | Mark Davis

Posted on 02/13/2015 6:58:23 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Impy

GREAT move by Jax; he’s no fool.


21 posted on 02/13/2015 7:54:26 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Kaslin

“Women should tolerate such sexual violence, even find a way to develop a taste for it. After all, maybe you can change him.”

Planned Parenthood was caught giving this advice to young (high school minors) women who were ‘bored’ by the old in-out. ‘Try BDSM, try choking, lean about safewords because ‘no’ doesn’t always mean ‘NO’). Lean to tolerate it. Learn to say no to lead him on. Lean all sorts of rotten behavior.


22 posted on 02/13/2015 8:00:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
and then drop revenue wise and viewer wise into the toilet of obscurity forever!!!

Yeah, because that's what happened with the fourth and crappiest of the Batman movies. It's not like it ran again and again and again on cable around the clock...

23 posted on 02/13/2015 8:04:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

Believe me, the bdsm or whatever someone wishes to call it, has been available to those that are looking for it for a long time. It just wasn’t, I guess you could say, “mainstream”, like it is now. Pretty sad state of affairs. I lived in London in the early 60’s and heard tales of some of the things that could be “had” if you were so inclined. I wasn’t. I’m hopin’ the movie is a financial failure. I know it isn’t getting any of our money.


24 posted on 02/13/2015 8:08:15 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: Kaslin
Back and forth . .

back and forth . . . .

In and out . . . in and out . . .

A little to the right . . . a little to the left . .

She could feel the sweat on her forehead . . . .

Between her breasts . . . and, trickling down the small of her back. . .

She was getting near to the end . . .

He was in ecstasy . . . with a huge smile on his face as his wife moved . . .

Forwards then backwards . . . .

Forward then backward . . .

Again . . . and, again . . .

Her heart was pounding now. . .

Her face was flushed. . .

She moaned. . . softly at first, then began to groan louder and louder.

Finally . . . totally exhausted . . . she let out a piercing scream . . .

She shouted:

"OK, OK, you smug bastard, I can't parallel park . . . You do it

25 posted on 02/13/2015 8:08:32 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Darksheare

What is “Twilight fanfic” & why are we supposed to be so well-verse in it as those whining about another typical Hollywood-culture film?


26 posted on 02/13/2015 8:10:07 AM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: Puppage

That’s adorable :D


27 posted on 02/13/2015 8:28:35 AM PST by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spots on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: Puppage

:)


28 posted on 02/13/2015 8:32:38 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Kaslin

“damaged society”
Turn on daytime TV for more evidence.


29 posted on 02/13/2015 8:34:57 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Kaslin

Gosh, another movie review by someone who didn’t see the movie (and probably didn’t read the book either), so they actually have little idea about what they are talking about. You know, like all of those “American Sniper” movie reviewers that were attacked here who didn’t see the movie either.

I read the book. Not terribly offensive, just rally stupid, really ridiculous and REALLY badly written. Critics who HAVE seen the movie, claim its better made than the book, which wouldn’t be difficult to do, and which pretty much probably makes the movie a chick flick, soft-porn version of the age old Cinderella-story.

The probably not-very-good movie will indeed probably make beaucoup bucks as legions of female book fans flock to it in droves, but so what?


30 posted on 02/13/2015 8:41:05 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Kaslin
I really don't believe some of you. Frothing at something you have never seen. Even if you read the book (I haven't) Hollywood has a long and "distinguished" history of "getting it wrong" when adapting a book to the screen. (I'm looking at YOU, Dune. I'm looking at YOU, Ender's Game.)

Have you seen the reviews? Drudge featured a link to "the best of the worst", and it was an insightful read into the dumbing down of a book by Hollywood to appease the Masters of the Movie Rating System. Indeed, I remember seeing a piece describing that the French are saying "ho-hum".

If y'all really need to get your exercise by jumping to conclusions, I won't stop you. I won't go see Fifty Shades of Grey because by all indications it's not a good movie. Period.

31 posted on 02/13/2015 8:48:31 AM PST by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

Actually there’s a fairly extensive BDSM subculture already in America. Has been since before the revolution. They’ve got clubs, for hire, even conventions. And they HATE 50 Shades. It doesn’t follow the rules of mutual consent that are very important in “the life”, it’s an abusive relationship. They’ve been pushing for a boycott of it for a long time, currently they’re on a drive requesting people donate a “date night” amount to a women’s shelter instead.


32 posted on 02/13/2015 8:49:17 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: Insigne123

Fanfic = fiction written in an established “world” by fans of said world. Usually found on the internet these days, usually terrible.

Twilight fanfic = fanfic in the Twilight world.

50 Shades started as fanfic put on Twilight fan sites. It got really popular, extremely popular. Popular enough that publishers approached the author about actually publishing it. So she “scraped off the serial numbers” (changed character names, removed references to the larger copy-written Twilight world) and walla, an incredibly poorly written financial juggernaut was born.

And you should know about it only if you want to actually know what you’re talking about when slamming 50 Shades. If you’re comfortable only knowing it’s awful then that OK too.


33 posted on 02/13/2015 8:56:55 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: discostu

They do look at that sort of thing, I was getting chased around by some Canadian publisher but I didn’t have the time or inclination.


34 posted on 02/13/2015 9:05:08 AM PST by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spots on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: BlackAdderess

If the offer came I would totally say yes. It won’t because I don’t do any fanfic or really anything creative, but free money is free money. Pseudonym though, no way I’d publish stuff I know is tripe under my own name. And cash upfront, because any publisher that dumb might not be in business long.


35 posted on 02/13/2015 9:13:03 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: BlackAdderess

Also I thought my writing was nowhere near ready for primetime.


36 posted on 02/13/2015 9:17:00 AM PST by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spots on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: discostu

Well, I’ve now got a few friends now, so I’ll take some courses and try to do the thing right.


37 posted on 02/13/2015 9:19:18 AM PST by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spots on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: Insigne123

Some idiot was a fan of the emo whiner series “Twilight”, so they wrote a horrible fan fiction for it titled “Master of the Universe”.
It was initially “published” online.
Why should we care?
Because, it means that any sap with a poorly written fan fiction can con enough idiots into thinking it is ‘great work’ to the point that an idiotic movie is made about it.


38 posted on 02/13/2015 9:58:12 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Kaslin
What irritates me most about this whole "Fifty Shades of Grey" cultural phenomenon is the pretentiousness of it. From what I can tell, it's cheap pornography for bored housewives, the female consumer equivalent of Larry Flynt's publications.

Yet "Fifty Shades of Grey" masquerades as having some kind of literary value, as though it were high art. I'm not saying either it or Larry Flynt's magazines should be illegal, I am saying is that "Fifty Shades of Grey" shouldn't pretend to be anything more than what it is.

39 posted on 02/13/2015 10:39:33 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: YouGoTexasGirl; All
I was just commenting to a college girlfriend that pre-free love days women saved themselves for marriage

I wasn't around then. But I feel that maybe saving one's self was preached and claimed to be adhered to. But that there were lots of things considered to be immoral going on in secret.

True, many women saved themselves for marriage back them. I'd assume a lot less do now.

For sure, post free-love, these things are more out in the open and considered less taboo. But is premarital sex, marital infidelity, kink, etc really new to just our current generations?

Were there not brothels, cheating, womanizing, lying, homosexuality, and abuse before the 1960's? Wasn't prostitution legal for a long portion of our national history? Society accepts way more out in the open today to be sure. I can accept that society even encourages these behaviors post free-love. But I really don't think that basic human behavior has really changed that radically.
40 posted on 02/13/2015 10:40:52 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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