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Am I the only person who is disgusted by the 50 Shades of Grey franchise? Take away the “rich” aspect and it becomes an episode of Criminal Minds. Why are we teaching our girls and women that this type of controlling and manipulative behavior is all right?
It’s risky.
Any time you try to present common sense, you will run across a contingency who do not view themselves as “common,” and also think “sense” doesn’t seem as much fun.
You will be accused of being provincial, puritanical, Victorian or even bigoted.
Yet…
Sado-masochism is anti-woman. If projected against a male, it is also anti-man.
Even if the participants are willing, they are functioning from a wounded place–perhaps previous abuse–which now spurs their lust.
It is grounded in violence.
It is a reenactment. or at least a shadow, of rape and torture.
It is the removal of the tenderness of intimacy.
There is no excuse for it; there is no place for it.
We don’t condone a young girl who takes a knife and cuts her arm, as merely expressing her personal preference in pleasure. We realize that this self-mutilation is warning us of an inner turmoil.
In human sexuality there is no room for violence, pain, intimidation, control or domination. Human sexuality is actually the opposite. It is a humble and gentle opening of oneself to another human being, looking for confirmation instead of denigration.
In the pursuit of giving rights to all races, all religions and all sexual orientations, we must be careful not to include a general freedom for human behavior which is destructive.
Fifty Shades of Grey and Fifty Shades Darker are antiquated attempts by manipulative individuals to take the cause of human equality back centuries, when women were considered seductive because they were thrown down on the bed, averting their eyes in humiliation.
As I said, there is no excuse for it; there is no place for it.
There is no reasonable way to give it respect in our social order and still maintain the progress that men and women are pursuing to become human.
Simply stated, dehumanizing people destroys the human race.
The worst part of this treachery is that young girls are being taught, in a medieval way, that they are the “pleasuring holes” for domineering men, and that the painful process might just include increased pleasure.
It is foolish, it is selfish and it is damning.
I will say without any hesitation that anyone who laughs at a woman putting on a pair of handcuffs as a symbol of foreplay is encouraging this fallacy, taking one-half of our race and stripping them of their God-given power.
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