It's not a book I'd appreciate because (what I've seen of) the writing is a bit sub-standard. And it's slightly laughable that it is (or was) Twilight fan-fiction before it was adapted. However, my thought processes run differently to most people, I think.
I see some people's thought process may be: I don't like the book, therefore the book is bad, therefore the people who like it aren't very good either.
I could challenge every element of that, but I'll leave it for another post because it's not my point here. My thought process was:
It's not my taste but my taste is only my taste; it's neither right nor wrong. Perhaps people are reading it for the content as opposed to the style. If so, why are so many women expressing an interest in a more submissive type of sex (in the book portrayed with the master as a massively successful young tyro; the kind that feminism wants women to have the same opportunity as, not to lose their virginity to and then be the slave of). You usually find that fetishes move against the line of popular culture (bring in a smoking ban, people will fetishise smoking). Is the success of Fifty Shades of Grey, therefore, an indicator that the feminist movement is now seen as an established authority?
I'm not suggesting your thought process is wrong. Just that mine is different.
IIN that I think this way about people who like "50 Shades of Grey"?
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It's not a book I'd appreciate because (what I've seen of) the writing is a bit sub-standard. And it's slightly laughable that it is (or was) Twilight fan-fiction before it was adapted. However, my thought processes run differently to most people, I think.
I see some people's thought process may be: I don't like the book, therefore the book is bad, therefore the people who like it aren't very good either.
I could challenge every element of that, but I'll leave it for another post because it's not my point here. My thought process was:
It's not my taste but my taste is only my taste; it's neither right nor wrong. Perhaps people are reading it for the content as opposed to the style. If so, why are so many women expressing an interest in a more submissive type of sex (in the book portrayed with the master as a massively successful young tyro; the kind that feminism wants women to have the same opportunity as, not to lose their virginity to and then be the slave of). You usually find that fetishes move against the line of popular culture (bring in a smoking ban, people will fetishise smoking). Is the success of Fifty Shades of Grey, therefore, an indicator that the feminist movement is now seen as an established authority?
I'm not suggesting your thought process is wrong. Just that mine is different.