Call for Fifty Shades boycott

[NudieDaniel]

Christian lobby group Family First is calling for a boycott of the upcoming film Fifty Shades of Grey.

The film, which features acts of sadomasochism, is being released on Thursday.

Family First wants families to boycott the film and instead donate money to a local women's refuge.

The group's director Bob McCoskrie said the film was based on the humiliation, abuse and control of a woman by a possessive, violent and jealous man.

He said it portrayed foul and dangerous lies about love.

Mr McCoskrie said anyone concerned about sexual violence should not attend the film, and should instead use the opportunity to discuss these issues with their children.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/265541/call-for-fifty-shades-boycott

[H3R0]

Definitely don't support the book or the movie, its garbage and domestic abuse should not be mistaken for love. 

[Dan]

There's not much point to a boycott. Those of us who think it's an apology of domestic abuse as @H3R0 pointed and all around despicable for reasons unrelated to sex being in there were not going to see it anyway.

I'd love to be able to do something so they make less money with this crap but there's not much I can do.

[natureboy1776]

I have not read the book or seen the movie but I have read a few reviews and summaries. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but I get the impression that in this story both parties are able to live out some fantasies, however unconventional or twisted they may be, in a fairly safe environment. Kind of like violent video games. While the actions depicted are abusive in nature, they are consensual. While resembling domestic abuse, the only real harm done by the film is if some unthinking, ill-informed person out there thinks this gives him (generic him) the right to repeat any act without consent. I am not interested in these sort of fantasies myself but I do know some couples that are, and I won't hold that against them. Interestingly enough those same people think social nudism is "messed up", as in they can not understand why a group of naked people would not be OK with open sex.

I do have something against the group calling for the boycott. The so called "Family First" is a very repressive group that is wildly opposed to many things including nudism, topfreedom, gay rights, etc.

I will agree though that this is a good opportunity to discuss many issues with our families and friends, including domestic abuse, the importance or consent, and alternative lifestyles.

[Dan]

It started as Twilight fan fiction. Some changes were made to be able to publish but 90% of the original fan fiction stayed.

It's the same abusive dysfunctional relationship as the other series execept add BDSM from the point of view of someone that couldn't even be bothered to read the Wikipedia page on it.

[The_Xenologer]

They'd have to pay me to see this film. They'd have to pay me A LOT.

[eagleday]

While I am against any censorship or boycott of any kind of art expression, and NOT against erotica or porn to a certain limit (that is, pedophiles, animals, BDSM; well, you got the picture) I cannot say that 50 Shades, just like Twilight, worth a critical acclaim whatsoever. So far it's just an overrated, glorified hype, mostly (or I should say sadly?) among women.

A friend of mine, a young one, suggested her newlywed friend to "practice the 50 Shades way" in her honeymoon. She repeated it again in twitter. Another one did actually admit in twitter that she masturbated while reading the book, and she practiced the 50 Shades BDSM with her husband, albeit "softer" (and ended up with ridiculous, but not fatal, disaster). A general manager in my company, rich single woman in her 30s, did boast that she had finished all 4 Twilights and 3 50 Shades. These are "decent" middle-upper class women with "respectable" standing, career and reputation. Some are church-goers, have proper family etc. Oh, speaking about church, a hotel in England planned to replace Gideon Bibles in their rooms with 50 Shades, simply for its best-selling sensation. (I don't mind having Bible missing from hotels, you can download it for free; but isn't there any better books to put in?)

Mind you, this is not the first erotica written by a woman and/or marketed mainly to women. There are many of those in the past, some even made a prominence. (My dad had some erotic novels in his shelf, one of them was written by a woman I couldn't recall the name.) Many women are no more "victimized" in porn or sex industry in any scale, if you still think of them as mere objects of lust in it; in fact they actively play the big money there.

But...

Is the first time an erotica, well, let's say "porn" then, is elevated to a "respectable" standing? Simply because it is written as a Twilight fan fiction, and read by Twi-moms and Twi-girls of middle-upper classes, who have previously worshiped the series which had become its basis? Correct me if I'm wrong, but do they, or you, think that 50 Shades of Grey can officially distance itself from "ordinary, men-oriented, decadent, immoral, pervasive and degraded pulp-fiction porn" and rise into "literate", "civilized" society simply because it is written "by woman for women"?

My girlfriend doesn't like it. Sorry, but we don't use any S.O.P. for sex. And Twilight? I must restrain her from burning them right there in the bookstore.

Sorry, maybe I'm just ranting.

[Dan]

Firefighters are planning for the extra calls due to BDSM "mishaps" from viewers of the movie.

[NudieDaniel]

And now Megan Whelan telling us what we already think of Fifty Shades

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/review-fifty-shades-of-grey

[Delta]

http://edwardspoonhands.com/post/110877423595

[raud]

Definitely don't support the book or the movie, its garbage

Definetely agree! :D
I haven't seen either, but for what i've found on internet, i rather prefer to stay that way

[Dan]

Definetely agree! :D
I haven't seen either, but for what i've found on internet, i rather prefer to stay that way

I read the blog of a girl who was reading it and summarizing / ranting about every chapter. It was quite hilarious. Then for book two she read it with a friend because she had trouble bearing that alone and then she quit.

I can't find the blog now but it was funny.

[Dan]

Some choice quotes illustrated : http://imgur.com/gallery/rNx3z

[Mettis]

I will not be seeing this crap.

[eagleday]

I will not be seeing this crap.

What I heard from the women who likes both the book and the movie, they don't think about sexual violence or female inequality. It's their ultimate dream of 'transactional relationship': I give you my body to do anything you want, and you give me orgasm, penthouse, jewelries, and all sorts of heavier-than-air aircraft. It's a pseudo-feminist view: men are all dicks but they can make a lot of money.