"I'm Cherokee Christian!"
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
run a night train to mundo fine
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/05/25/490132/fifty-shades-of-whatever-the-missed-opportunities-of-fifty-shades-of-grey/
For all its naughtiness, the book would faint dead away at anything so racy as an actual challenge to gender roles and sexual politics. Fifty Shades of Grey is the literary equivalent of telling a woman to meet her husband at the door dressed in saran wrap.
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
singing "mr. benson" in my head to the tune of "mr wendal"
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://m.gawker.com/5913971/florida-gives-in-to-horny-moms-lifts-the-ban-on-50-shades-of-grey
That was fast. Just a month after minivan-mom erotica 50 Shades of Grey was banned, Brevard County Florida has reneged on the ban and will return all 19 copies of the book to its' libraries
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
florida-gives-in-to-horny-moms
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, May 25, 2012 12:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
IDK, if anything I find this kind of opinion sort of retrograde
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
is saran wrap some kind of old school patriarch fetish
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know that soccer moms are really looking for porn that challenges gender roles and sexual politics; that seems less like "porn" and more like "someone's senior thesis"
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
hurting, i certainly don't want to proscribe what is or isn't okay in the bedroom or erotic fiction. not my place, two consenting adults, etc. but that linked article (which isn't terribly well written, i'll admit) says something which i agree with 100% -- that it's an largely incorrect & simplistic depiction of sexual power dynamics & bdsm
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
I think we can all agree with that, but I think the larger point is that people are not reading to see if the depiction of sexual power is accurate; people are reading so they can fantasize about a rich man playing with their butt plug
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha, otm
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
A very large number of women apparently find this particular "incorrect" and "simplistic" depcition of BDSM power dynamics hot.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
And blogging that trash fan-fic turned bestseller porn represents a "missed opportunity" to challenge sexual politics and gender roles is just, wow, BORING.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
also fwiw a commenter on that blog says that the sequels do address some of the very issues mentioned in the blog so w/e.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
xp it's a lot less boring than the book tbh
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure the book is completely terrible and I will continue to enjoy its mockery
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
as long as we're all on the same page there.
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
i just think the success of this book, judged against its actual content, has a lot of ppl scratching their heads because it's boring, not-sexy, and not anywhere near as thrillingly transgressive as the fans would have you believe, i mean "controlling bastard spanks college co-ed" is not exactly breaking new ground
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Fiction book found to be largely incorrect & simplistic, film at 11
― mh, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Guys, I am gonna have to not go on occasional dates with a girl anymore because she bought this :(
depends on what you're into really
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeah if anything I think the curiosity is "why THIS book about a controlling guy spanking a co-ed"
I mean I assume there are a lot of *romance* novels about rich dominating guys, no?
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
boring fiction deserves buttplugs too
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
the lana del rey of books
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
lana del grey
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
― mh, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
don't not go on occasional dates because of this
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
on the plus side, soon she'll be hesitantly asking you to put a dollop of ice cream in her navel
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Unless your occasional date is reading it for some kind of other purpose or can at least admit that it's loathsome, do the right thing and dump her. Do you want to date someone who thinks this is titillating?
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
lactose intolerance
― mh, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
as he ponders this mh's eyes gleam like an inner tube.
― estela, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
my wife reads some really really dumb romance novels. she knows they're dumb, and has good taste in actual literature (and has avoided 50 Shades specifically because of the Twilight connection), but she enjoys them, and i sometimes get laid as a direct result of that, so the idea of saying to her or someone like her "oh you find that titillating, how BORING" and dumping them or just being condescending because of that is pretty ridic to me.
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
likewise if they don't waka flocka
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
Well then clearly your answer to my question would be "yes." I mean I don't know, maybe mh DOES want to date someone who finds whatever this is titillating.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
I don't have any desire to read 50 Shades of Grey, and I'm not thrilled with it as a book but I'm seriously not going to stop associating with people just for reading it.
I really hope this isn't a serious line of conversation because wow.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
some dude and vg otm
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
soccer moms are the worst
― Euler, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's boring, not-sexy, and not anywhere near as thrillingly transgressive as the fans would have you believe, i mean "controlling bastard spanks college co-ed" is not exactly breaking new ground
What makes me reflexively hate this tril just like I hated its progenitor series is that people who read other typical shitty romance novels DON'T think they're being transgressive, where as people who have made Fifty Shades famous are all "Ooooh this is so DARK, it's even more exciting because it's NASTY and transgressive, that's so hot, just look at all these things I would scorn and/or be disgusted by if a real-life practitioner brought them up to me."
You don't understand this whole other world now that you've read this, you just brought it into YOUR world that's safe and all cleaned up for you and made it safe and clean, too.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
It gives me Outsider Rage somehow.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
I mean have these people never heard of that Anne Rice pseudonymously-written shizz or what
― mh, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
so what you're saying is you don't like the kinky fuckery
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
It's like that band Fuck Buttons, man! They act like they're all avant-noise, but they're really tuneful!
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
when you download this book it should first automatically play the cream of wheat vid imo
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
as an intro to the real world
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Or like, alt.sex.stories.text
― mh, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Hurting, don't you diss Fuck Buttons. ;(
― mh, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
so many verbs in that post
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
kink buttons
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
― mh, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha i tried to make this joke/point a couple different ways
there is some kind of tipping point here going on re: the internet's reach into certain subcultures (slash fic, bdsm itself) and being a bridge into wider square culture. james is internet-literate, started as a slash fic writer, "researched" her subject therein, but the masses of purchasers of this stuff must be very un-savvy about either, or they wouldn't be buying it
― goole, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link