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By: How I gave up on 50 Shades and you can too! | Roxanne Reads

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By: 50 Shades of Heavy Reading | Séo Faru

50 Shades of Heavy Reading | Séo Faru — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 04:12:13 +0000

[…] Unfortunately, I am still not sure how to tell someone how to avoid these scenarios. I know I will never fall into one again, mainly because I can “see clearly” now if you will and have acquired a better self knowledge. In fact, I went on few dates with a guy before I dated Trevor who had chemistry similar to a previous relationship. I could feel myself naturally moving in that direction again, making the same stupid decisions and compromises, wondering what the heck I was doing when in his presence. I didn’t like it. Luckily I recognized it and ended things after our second or third “date”. He of course had no idea why nor did I try to explain to him beyond the “just not interested” line. As I expected, no matter how nicely I told him I wasn’t interested, he became rude and a bit confrontational. Silly as it sounds, it was soooo hard for me to blow of his demands as to the “why”, but I was done being bullied! Turns out doing so was liberating in so many ways. I guess my hope with this is that we – especially the women, mothers (some soon to have a daughters), sisters, friends as well as all those upstanding men out there – can all take a stand against these things in a more knowledgable way. To not just brush these books off because they are poorly written or “unrealistic” or against your religion. But because there will be girls who struggle to decipher what others may see as obvious. And maybe that is partly because society does not talk about this stuff enough or when it does it is inappropriately and glorified in the wrong way (thank you main stream media). It is clear that something is greatly amiss in societal conversation that a book series like this could even be so popular and so widely “accepted”. (Not to mention the fact that this series was written by a women – mind you a happily married middle aged women with a trusted and trusting partner who has never been in a really unhealthy relationship – and the movie also directed by a women, what the heck ladies!) We should all be aware of and more accepting of talking about the fact that emotions can do funny things and people can connect with others in a way that compromises how they would normally see things with anyone else, especially if the other person is gifted in capitalizing on the phenomenon (whether said persons realize they are skilled in this way or not). I think that is one of the reasons why the doctor’s analysis in the links below ring out so loudly to me (that and some of what is broken down was also told to me at one point by my own therapist, only at that time I refused to listen or try to comprehend *sigh*). Perhaps if we are better educated about these types of cycles, we can stand to 1) avoid them ourselves – they can occur at varying levels and in all types of relationships and 2) better understand those who struggle in them. Maybe understanding (or at the very least acknowledging) will take on a broader societal impact and provide better support/empathy to those who need it. Who knows, maybe down the road these books will go from bestseller to blacklisted by society because of the unhealthiness they aggrandize. I truly believe the is power in knowledgable discussion. https://50shadesofabuse.wordpress.com/warning-signs/ and this one: A Psychiatrist’s Letter to Young People about Fifty Shades of Grey Thanks for listening (reading). Additional Articles for Thought: A Letter to My Children About Fifty Shades of Grey […]

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By: FIfty Shades Faded | Thoughts of a Societally Antithetical

FIfty Shades Faded | Thoughts of a Societally Antithetical — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:04:53 +0000

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By: Quora

Quora — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:34:18 +0000

So why are all the reviews bashing up the 50 Shades of Grey movie on “moral” grounds when no one could stop talking about how awesome the books were? Or is this a case of all publicity is good and carefully crafted to drive more audiences to watch…

I didn’t read the books; and got eyes rolled at me for not doing the “in thing” then. Whatever it sounded like, the idea of those books simply didn’t appeal to me. I didn’t even know they were about bdsm till I saw the movie reviews now strewn all…

By: Judging a Book by its Coverage (50 Shades of What??) | Wendy L. Macdonald

Judging a Book by its Coverage (50 Shades of What??) | Wendy L. Macdonald — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:56:11 +0000

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