Does the success of '50 Shades Of Grey' prove that every woman loves a bastard?

IvaBigWun · 13-07-2012 09:01PM #1

Because I'm struggling to explain the popularity of the humourless, controlling, manipulative, stalky, psycho

Gummy Panda · 13-07-2012 09:03PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Because I'm struggling to explain the popularity of the humourless, controlling, manipulative, stalky, psycho

It makes women want to flick their bean therefore is popular

chin_grin · 13-07-2012 09:04PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOwTF_i6zOc

PK2008 · 13-07-2012 09:04PM

No, just rich b@stards

Tayla · 13-07-2012 09:05PM

I thought the books were crap, he's not what I would consider to be a bastard either, he's very needy and clingy.

Pantsface · 13-07-2012 09:06PM

No woman wants a wet wimp

Tin Foil Hat · 13-07-2012 09:06PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Because I'm struggling to explain the popularity of the humourless, controlling, manipulative, stalky, psycho

Nope. It just means that junk sells in huge numbers - be it food, movies, TV, music or books.

Banjaxed82 · 13-07-2012 09:09PM

It proves that the publisher's marketing department is a bastard.

Pacing Mule · 13-07-2012 09:10PM

He's got some serious issues after events in his childhood. She's not that comfortable with it but sees through his issues and helps him overcome them. Compromise is reached and she enjoys a bit of his world. Anyone saying the books are just sex / porn and unreal fantasy etc are frankly jumping on an ill informed band wagon.

Blondini · 13-07-2012 09:10PM

Women are dirty

Curly Judge · 13-07-2012 09:11PM

Treat them mean and keep them coming, eh?

Ficheall · 13-07-2012 09:11PM

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

He's got some serious issues after events in his childhood. She's not that comfortable with it but sees through his issues and helps him overcome them. Compromise is reached and she enjoys a bit of his world. Anyone saying the books are just sex / porn and unreal fantasy etc are frankly jumping on an ill informed band wagon.

What's the word on the informed band wagon then?

13-07-2012 09:12PM

If it gets more women into fisting then it's all good as far as I'm concerned.

Pantsface · 13-07-2012 09:15PM

meh, its cool to say you've read it / enjoyed it "oh look at me i'm a bit risky"

Pacing Mule · 13-07-2012 09:20PM

Ficheall wrote: »

What's the word on the informed band wagon then?

Read them and see

It's a lot deeper than a bit of porn with a story around it (yes I said deeper before anyone gets excited

) For the most part the sex stuff whilst graphic enough is graphic because it needs to be to give an insight into the mind of Grey, why he is the way he is and how it impacts on those he is involved with. Granted by the end of book 2 and into book 3 it does get a bit gratuitous but you'd find a lot worse / more graphic erotic stories online easily enough.

That's my 2 cents anyway - don't want to give any spoilers.

biko · 13-07-2012 09:22PM

I heard the butler did it.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 13-07-2012 09:26PM

It just reinforces the "treat her mean, keep her keen" stereotype at least that's my excuse...

g'em · 13-07-2012 09:29PM

It proves that for some women a bad boy is an exciting fantasy.

Does regular porn prove that men only love fake boobed wimmin who fake orgasms every time they take it up the mum? Course not, doesn't mean it doesn't appeal.

Varied · 13-07-2012 09:31PM

g'em wrote: »

Does regular porn prove that men only love fake boobed wimmin who fake orgasms every time they take it up the mum? Course not, doesn't mean it doesn't appeal.

Plenty of women love the bad boys of porn too. :pac:

admiralofthefleet · 13-07-2012 09:33PM

whats all this fifty shades of grey shit? ive been hearing nothing else for the last week and i still have no idea what it is

4zn76tysfajdxp · 13-07-2012 09:37PM

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Read them and see

It's a lot deeper than a bit of porn with a story around it (yes I said deeper before anyone gets excited ) For the most part the sex stuff whilst graphic enough is graphic because it needs to be to give an insight into the mind of Grey, why he is the way he is and how it impacts on those he is involved with. Granted by the end of book 2 and into book 3 it does get a bit gratuitous but you'd find a lot worse / more graphic erotic stories online easily enough.

That's my 2 cents anyway - don't want to give any spoilers.

Please don't analyse that "book" like it's real literature. It cheapens the whole medium. Possibly all media.

mickydoomsux · 13-07-2012 09:39PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

whats all this fifty shades of grey shit? ive been hearing nothing else for the last week and i still have no idea what it is

A series of books that would be porn if guys read them but they are considered "erotica" because they are aimed at women.

castletownman · 13-07-2012 09:48PM

I'm not bitching about women's tastes in popular culture or anything but I take no interest in books that become universally popular amongst women. They are after all generally the same demographic that made Big Brother, X Factor, Sex and the City and Twilight pollute our airwaves/cinema/bookshelves. And they wouldn't exactly be the epitome of entertainment!

At least us men have sport!

cristoir · 13-07-2012 09:49PM

It's now only that book that shows it. Look at the twilight saga, it is adored by teenage girls even though the relationship shown is extremely abusive.

krudler · 13-07-2012 09:50PM

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Read them and see

It's a lot deeper than a bit of porn with a story around it (yes I said deeper before anyone gets excited ) For the most part the sex stuff whilst graphic enough is graphic because it needs to be to give an insight into the mind of Grey, why he is the way he is and how it impacts on those he is involved with. Granted by the end of book 2 and into book 3 it does get a bit gratuitous but you'd find a lot worse / more graphic erotic stories online easily enough.

That's my 2 cents anyway - don't want to give any spoilers.

or they're badly written Twilight fanfiction spinoffs

g'em · 13-07-2012 09:51PM

g'em wrote: »

Does regular porn prove that men only love fake boobed wimmin who fake orgasms every time they take it up the mum? Course not, doesn't mean it doesn't appeal.

Heh, I just noticed my typo. Freud would jizz himself

CodyJarrett · 13-07-2012 09:51PM

Johnny Cash gets the blame for everything.

FloatingVoter · 13-07-2012 09:54PM

Doctor Who here - the follow up about a naive young woman becoming involved with a kinky unemployed guy in a bedsit in Coolock didn't sell many copies. The sex was excellent in that, ropes and rubber bands and elastoplasts n' all. Strange that.:o

cantankerous · 13-07-2012 09:56PM

http://files.myopera.com/JanetB/albums/933483/Twilight%20Moms.jpeg

c_man · 13-07-2012 09:56PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

whats all this fifty shades of grey shit? ive been hearing nothing else for the last week and i still have no idea what it is

All I've been hearing is people bitching about how popular it is. Would never have heard of it if not for them

Queen-Mise · 13-07-2012 09:57PM

Arjun Little Menthol wrote: »

Please don't analyse that "book" like it's real literature. It cheapens the whole medium. Possibly all media.

Now that is literary snobbery. And all media is far from the quality of 'literature'. Everything has its place.

Anything that has the amount of people reading it that 50 Shades does - deserves to be analysed in some way.

Does the success of '50 Shades Of Grey' prove that every woman loves a bastard?

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