FIFTY

Came across an article that made me go...

Apparently there is a anti-pornography organisation in Washington that is attacking the upcoming movie, Fifty Shades of Grey (in case you have been living under a rock, it is a popular erotic novel centered around BDSM).

This is a little quote from them:

 "With the popularity of this book, mainstream opinion-makers (like Oprah, the Today Show and Broadway) are telling the public (especially youth) that humiliation, degradation and torture in sex is normal and to just give it a try."

....what? 

First off, who defines the normality of sex anyway? What people choose to do in the privacy (or not, if you are into that) of their bedrooms is none of your business. They do not need to adhere to your standards of appropriateness, nor is there a need for one. The only thing that is absolutely necessary when it comes to anything remotely sexual, is mutual consent, meeting of the legal age requirement, and using proper protection against sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. What's it to you if someone is into the concept of dominance and subservience? This is a book-based movie acted out by good looking people about BDSM, not some donkey fucking tradition. So sit your asses (lolol) down and chill the fuck out.

Secondly, I'm pretty sure no one in the mainstream media, especially Oprah, is actually explicitly telling the youth of the world to give BDSM a try. Doing a promotional media stint is not equivalent to sending everyone home with a care package filled with latex and whips while screaming "You get a BDSM package! You get a BDSM package! And you get a BDSM package!".

Thirdly, if they truly want to attack the movie, it should be because it is based off a shitty book and shitty books should not be made into movies (*cough* twilight *cough*). Side tracking a little, I have tried (and failed) on multiple occasions to sit through an entire Twilight movie. I just can't. The bland dialogue, the even blander acting, and the fact that it is based on an extremely stupid premise that feeds off young girls' puberty struggles and low self-esteem by creating an extremely vague and average, a one-size fits all character for 15 year old girls to live vicariously through. Add in a 17 year old looking centenarian whose sole purpose in life seems to be to protect and feed as much attention as possible to the girl...and a worldwide phenomenon is created. Fifty Shades of Grey is just the adult version of Twilight. It plays into the bedroom struggles of adults while providing a literary escape for the those who wouldn't mind a handsome, wealthy businessman with a bad boy edge to sweep them off their feet and satisfy their libido. This is what both the Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey books are: Unchallenging, uninspiring, contains little to no educational value piece of sorry ass literature that somehow, manages to get published and made into movies.

So don't protest against sexually explicit movies. Protest against shitty stories that are written into multiple books, which will then be made into multiple movies, which will then haunt the cinema screens worldwide for years to come.