If you walk long enough to the left, you will find yourself on the right:
The news organization LifeSiteNews*, joined by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation**, the Family Research Council***, and the website Counter Cultured****, released the following statement on Monday about the controversial movie.
“Feminists and social conservatives agree: “Fifty Shades of Grey” promotes misogyny, abuse, and manipulation, not relationships based upon mutual love and respect,” said the coalition. “This film normalizes and glamorizes behaviors such as stalking, threats and physical violence. Its portrayal of relationships and sex is offensive to real life victims of domestic abuse. The film sets a particularly dangerous example for younger viewers, who may not understand that attractive, charismatic young billionaire Christian Grey is also an abusive sociopath, especially since victim/narrator Anastasia Steele continually describes and portrays him as a god.”
“Valentine’s Day is supposed to be a celebration of love; however, the relationship between the two main characters in “Fifty Shades of Grey” is anything but caring or loving.
As we can see, sexual dysfunction doesn’t care about political allegiances. It is completely bipartisan.
* Founded in 1997, LifeSiteNews is the world’s largest pro-life, pro-family news organizations. With reporters and contributors in10 countries on six continents, it is a vital resource for the promotion of traditional values around the globe.
** Founded in 1962, National Center on Sexual Exploitation is the leading national organization dedicated to opposing pornography by highlighting the links to sex trafficking, violence against women, child abuse, and addiction.
*** The Family Research Council is a D.C.-based policy organization that stresses the importance of traditional values related to abortion, marriage, religious liberty, and other pressing public policy issues.
**** Counter Cultured was founded in September 2012 by conservative sisters Anna Maria Hoffman and Gabriella Hoffman. It advocates for culturally conservative issues, using small government, non-theological arguments
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Wow, younger viewers whose view about relationships might be damaged by 50 shades of grey, the movie? Isn’t this R-rated? Or do there still exist on this planet people who think people form their views about love and abuse from the movies they watch, while in their late teens and older?
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I agree with the people who say that 50shades is a horrible story that depicts an unhealthy sexual/romantic relationship.
But it’s just (bad) masturbatory material, nothing more, nothing less.
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Exactly, it’s masturbatory material. But it’s only bad for those who don’t manage to reach the purpose of masturbation while using it. 🙂 For everybody else, it’s very good. And judging by the number of readers, it does seem to work for many.
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screams from the top of the hill
PORN DOES NOT EXIST IN A SOCIAL VACUUM
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Porn works with physiology, not sociology.
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The influx of newcomers to kink communities with fantasies larger than their tolerance for pain after 5SOG came out is incredible. And I know for a fact there are plenty of abusive people with BDSM culture who more than willing to take advantage of that. Given 5SOG is at the forefront of popular portrayals of BDSM it is really not a good thing that it’s about abuse. You can talk endlessly about how it’s not an instruction manuel but when it’s going to be so many people’s first exposure to BDSM (and stores are preparing for an influx of rope sales after the film’s release) you really can’t say it’s not having an effect on people. I know for a fact it is and if you’re not in the kink community then you really have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.
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And now a COMMUNITY has made an appearance. 🙂 🙂 I knew this would all devolve into fussing about the horrible damage suffered by some COMMUNITY. Yes, let’s all stop having sexual fantasies and masturbating right now lest a COMMUNITY gets upset.
The road from this line of reasoning to “the book hurts traditional values” is extremely short. Which the linked article has demonstrated.
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It’s not about the feelings of the BDSM community. As a kinkster 5SOG has done nothing to offend me. But as an abuse victim it has enabled the kind of people who hurt me to hurt others. If you care more about your sexual appetite than that then by all means keep supporting people who fetishise abuse. But I’m still going to keep calling them out as the callous insects they are.
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“It’s not about the feelings of the BDSM community.”
“But as an abuse victim it has enabled the kind of people who hurt me to hurt others.”
“If you care more about your sexual appetite than that”
“by all means keep supporting people who fetishise abuse. But I’m still going to keep calling them out as the callous insects they are.”
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I don’t doubt things like rape existed long before Daniel Tosh arrived on the scene, and I don’t doubt it’s futility to get people like him to stop joking about rape. But it doesn’t make him less of a rape enabler. I would be hurt if people found what happened to me funny and I’m just as hurt when people find it sexy.
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The book is not about you. Nobody knows your story if you don’t choose to publicize it.
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@Benoni: You see, I don’t think that you can place the blame on 50shades (or histoire d’o or the marquis de sade) if some people jump straight into bdsm without getting some real information about it beforehand. As it won’t be the cause of them getting into an abusive relationship.
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You can never account for how impressionable people can be, and if you ask me subjects like abuse aren’t really things to be treated lightly by any morally responsible person who should be aware what damage they’re capable of causing.
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“You can never account for how impressionable people can be”
“subjects like abuse aren’t really things to be treated lightly by any morally responsible person who should be aware what damage they’re capable of causing”
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Is it really so ridiculous to suggest that of all the subjects that shouldn’t be made light of, sexual abuse is one of them?
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Who is “making light of sexual abuse”? Let’s try to stay on topic.
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Defending the fetishization of abuse and then telling abuse victims they don’t have a right to be upset about it rather trivialises the issue don’t you think?
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And who told victims of abuse they don’t have a right to be upset??
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You’ve mostly been telling me the reason I’m upset is a sign of sexual dysfunction and unfair to people who enjoy scenes of abuse sexually. Then you said the issue isn’t about me, and if the matter of sexual abuse isn’t about the victims then I don’t know who its about.
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I’m sorry you experienced abuse. Here, however, we are not discussing you or your experiences. We are not discussing abuse either. The matter under discussion is a pornographic book that served as a basis to a non-pornographic movie. Neither the book nor the movie are about you. Or about abuse.
If the book upsets you, don’t read it. But don’t expel others to adjust their reading choices because you are upset by the book. If we follow your logic, we should stop reading War and Peace because war is surely an upsetting subject for many.
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For those who are following the thread: this is precisely why I’m sanitizing the reading list in my courses to an extreme degree. Every work of literature in existence contains something that some young person freaks out over as massively triggering. I’ve been trying to find works of literature where nothing at all happens but to no avail. The impressionable keep getting traumatized by depictions of death, divorce, separation, sexual desire, breakdown of friendships, illness, poverty, violence, disagreement, contraception, homosexuality, and pretty much everything else.
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I highly recommend this heartening book:
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I don’t know, it sounds like there might be a lot there to traumatize people. 🙂
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Oh yes it is very traumatising. I advise you buy it. And even for a normal person, it is traumatising
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This sounds like you are saying I’m not normal. I take that as a compliment. 🙂
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Oh, I would advise my friends and enemies alike to buy it. 😉 But seriously, it ought to be very traumatising, I think. I’m not sure, though, maybe not to everyone. It;s a psychodrama.
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