Posted on 07/24/2014 3:16:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Parents Television Council is slamming NBC's Today for airing the first trailer for the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey during its 8 a.m. hour. ...
"We're talking about basically the equivalent of a dime-store trashy romance novel [in the Fifty Shades of Grey book]. Essentially, what Today's doing is they're promoting what people refer to as mommy porn. That's what it boils down to. Today is helping to promote mommy porn. That's a pretty poor judgment on their part in terms of their attitude towards their audience."
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The Parents Television Council is not the only organization that's slamming the Fifty Shades trailer. Anti-porn education group Morality in Media released a statement condemning the clip for how it "romanticizes and normalizes sexual violence."
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"The implications of such a relationship — abuse of power, female inequality, coercion, and sexual violence — glamorizes and legitimatizes violence against women," the organization's executive director, Dawn Hawkins, said in a statement. "The popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey among women sends a message to men that this is what women really want. Even more dangerous, it also sends the message to women that they can 'fix' violent, controlling men by being obedient and loving. A warning to the women lining up to see this film: There is nothing empowering about whips and chains or humiliation and torture. Women as a group will not gain power by collaborating with violent men. Women would be serving only as an agent to further their own sexual degradation, handing themselves on a silver platter to exactly the sort of men who want to use and abuse them, and take away their power…"
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
Sigh. I really don't get why some women are into that. Hopefully, the series won't dwell on it over much...who am I kidding? This is the station that aired the Spartacus series!
That’s is too bad. I liked the Sci-Fi movie by the same name.
I must have read a different book!
The main theme was bondage - it was a pathetic and juvenile style of writing. It induced my ‘haterade’ - R.James, or whatever her fake name is, hasn’t a lick of original thought.
“Obama voters.”
How right you are my friend.
The only female parts of the electorate that Obama locked up in 2012 was not women overall but just black women, of course, and white single women under the age of 50. These are otherwise known as the “Sex and the City” vote, the “Sandra Fluke” vote, or the slut vote.
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