Okay, I'm all for reading. I love reading. I love picking up a book or even downloading something onto my Kindle and sitting for as long as possible to enjoy some literature/entertainment. I love how books give you the opportunity to use your imagination to put the words to action in your mind.
A while back....months ago...everyone started talking about "50 Shades" and even my bookclub got caught up in it. Should we read it? Is it dirty? Oooh, let's go for it. I made it through just about two chapters and only because it was a free download on my Kindle.
My first thought on the book - poorly written. I can get past that. I'm no scholar so who am I to judge. So many people were loving it so I continued...and then I finished chapter 1. How many times does this main character roll her eyes? How many times does she bite her lip?
Soon after reading those pages I told my book club that I was out - I couldn't get past the free download and there was no way I'd get through the entire book nevermind I didn't want to pay for it.
In fear of this becoming a full-fledged review I'm stopping my analysis on the book but rather going into what really 'got' me about it. Hypocritical females.
Women all over are all giggly about reading this book. They think they're being 'bad'. They're going to slumber parties to buy 'toys' because the book gives them the courage to do things they never would otherwise dare...or never had the imagination to come up with. Honestly, the same stories are featured in a monthly magazine that's considered dirty and these same women won't allow their husbands to get a subscription. They're actually better written in the magazine and vary without using the same phrases about turning shades of red or cocking their heads to the right every 5 minutes.
What's got me even more bothered is that around the same time as this hub-bub was a certain movie in theaters...Magic Mike. These same women all went to the movies giggling and cheering but if their hubbies wanted to watch Striptease or even go to a club - HECK NO! Really? So you're allowed to read porn and look at male dancers (and never mind how women behave at these places) but your hubby can't have a subscription to a magazine because it's dirty?
In America we're so far behind when it comes to certain things and sex is one of them. In other countries they have topless beaches and whatnot but here...oh good lord that woman is breastfeeding in public! Cover her up!
As for me - I didn't read 'the book' and I didn't see 'the movie'. For my bachelorette party we went to a bar and my friends made me a shirt with candy stuck on it. You know where that leads. I also had cards with silly things I had to do/say. My hubby never got a bachelor's party because the wife of his bestman didn't ALLOW her hubby to go to such places. Did I need a book like that to even know some of the things mentioned...um no. Do I actually read 'those magazines with those stories'? Yes, and sometimes I even open them before my hubby.
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