So I was having a fine day, everything was nice and dandy until I came home to find this wonderful piece of bullcrap in my mailbox.
Here’s an online link if you want to ragequit as well:
If you can’t tell that is the combo of my “Da fauq’ face and ‘judging you face”
Don’t get me wrong, let me state a few things up front.
a. Not a fan of all that submission stuff, but whatever if it floats your boat.
b. That is not why I am pissed.
Okay, dude, let me just make a rough list of things wrong here.
1. The cover- okay, wow, that isn’t a grab for horny men to pick up your magazine. Clearly.
2. The content.
Okay, keeping in mind that I’m a seventeen year old high school student who had to struggle to filter any of this language into plain old language (I have never seen so many colloquialisms in my life) I managed to filter it down into this (which is a little off I’m sure).
-Women, as a result of free will and power wish to be submissive to men in the bedroom.
Now here are the problems with that thesis.
1. For one, this comes off as an absolute. Uh man, some women may like that in the bedroom, but that’s some. Not all. There is a difference. For those who like it, okay, do what you want. But don’t put that label on EVERYONE.
2. That suggests women can’t handle power, which is a load of crap.
3. The fact it doesn’t mention men who want to be submissive as well. I may not be into BMSD, but I do use the internet. You stumble on these kinds of things. I call your bullshit and point you in the direction of a quick google search. (I shall not google this myself, but considering there is such a thing as bible fanfiction (another thing I stumbled onto) I doubt it’s hard to find.
4. I see no interviews and very little evidence to back this up. Also by calling it a fantasy life you make it seem like these kinds of women want it all the time (which is also a load of bull proven by a quick google search). Yeah, that’s going to help get rid of rape culture.
In short, even my tiny mind can smell the ‘hell no’ here. I’m sure others could do it much better.
Shame on you Newsweek. If you’re going to write a story on the sudden obsession with 50 shades of Gray (I shall never pick that thing up), would it kill you to at least fact check as half as much as I do for my high school newspaper.
(I know I have mistakes in reasoning here so feel free to point them out.)
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