"Fifty Shades of Grey" OMG.

[concertigrossi]

IT'S A BAD TWILIGHT BDSM PORN FIC WITH THE SERIAL NUMBERS FILED OFF. IT DOES NOT BELONG ON THE NYT BESTSELLER LIST. IT DOES NOT BELONG IN THE PAGES OF TIME OR NEWSWEEK. THIS WHOLE BUSINESS NEEDS TO STOP RIGHT NOW.

I weep for civilization.

Comments

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

It's round 985238492 of "omg women like weird sex!" (or really, "omg women like sex!") If the culture could just get over itself and not titter incessantly behind its hand every time there's some public acknowledgement that women are into (weird) sex, nobody would look twice at that book. If someone was into BDSM porn, they might pick it up, realize it was bad and go read some better BDSM porn.

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

The reason it's on the bestseller list is that there are a lot of women who are in the right age group to like fan fiction but somehow aren't cool enough with the search engines and so on to actually read fan fiction. Bad fan fic fills a need for them.

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! I like this explanation. Someone just needs to show these folks where the good stuff is!

[concertigrossi.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[cassiopaya.livejournal.com]

*sadface*

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

I weep for civilization
Why? Civilization isn't bothered - it moved to somewhere in the Pacific years ago and is mostly doing a lot of surfing these days ;-)

[concertigrossi.livejournal.com]

That explains an awful lot. :)