"It’s about power and control. It’s about playing on old stereotypes and turning them into questionable romance. It’s about entering the mindset of an abuser and rapist and selling it as ‘erotica’. There’s something really sad about our culture when this is held up as the epitome of ‘sexiness’. And it says a lot about our culture well beyond the intimate confines of the bedroom."
my article on Fifty Shades of Grey: Fifty Shades of Sexism by Hila Shachar.
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I am going to print this out and hand it to everyone who wants me to buy fifty shades for the library. A thousand times...
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