Its because WOMEN are buying it and flocking to it. They're the only ones buying it too! Its pretty much the most gross and perverted romance scenario you could possibly come up with. These aren't just mostly young girls like in the case of twilight either, these are grown ass (mostly married) women.

Its not like pornography, movies, or other literary media where the shits put in there inside of the story to somehow make some terrible point. From what I understand the point here being made is that being submissive is ok and actually hot.

That is some real fucked up shit dude.

also

Yeah thanks, that really helps.

The point behind the jokes if you didn't get it is to be as mysogonistic as hell to kind of point out why that shit is fucked up. Oprah being a current leader to women everywhere feeding into this garbage in some sadistic manner, oj simpson being an object of desire, married men everywhere being dumped because of not conforming to the garbage.

Sometimes you gotta point out some terrible shit to get some folks to see why shits terrible.
 
Because, I guess if you're a woman and all your friends started picking up this crap because it had something to do with twilight and yeah it gets pretty disgusting and you personally admit that but still read it because its got some romantacism copycatted from twilight. Maybe you could read the whole thing and not be clever enough to get why its so absolutely abhorrant?

Hi ironic misogyny is still misogyny and still awful as hell so don't do it. Also blaming women here totally ignores any social context that would lead to this so thanks for boiling a really complex problem to "gosh, women." There is a problem here but you aren't addressing it, you're just being sexist as fuck under the guise of being concerned. I'm not about to have another argument over this stuff, I'm just gonna leave this here and hope you think about it. The jokes you posted are misogynistic as hell no matter what your excuse is and you should seriously know better than to a) write them and b) post them here seeking for approval. They aren't okay, and neither is your simplistic view on the problems surrounding this book.

I think a large reason that this is selling so well is because people are hearing how offensive it is and they have the mentality of "Can it really be this bad? Must investigate further." A shitty reason to buy a book yes, but I can understand it.

ya and the news is doing a pretty good job at advertising it. what is this devilishly decadent book that moms everywhere are raving over? and is it really safe to read? more @11

Shit sells. We live in a world full of idiots who buy shit because they think shit is good. It's the natural order of things, sadly.

cool another person who doesn't understand the social factors that lead to things happening the way they do

i'm not even gonna bother with this one seriously forget it

uh yeah it does do you really not get that

do you really not see how understanding why things are like they are is not only useful but ABSOLUTELY VITAL to causing any sort of change?

trying to understand society and other people is everything, and you're never done learning

yeah.  one thing i will never understand or tolerate is people who have no interest in examining the world around them or trying to change it for the better.  nobody totally understands the world but there's a huge difference between people who try and want to get it and those who don't.  i don't have time for people who don't care to try.

I think a large reason that this is selling so well is because people are hearing how offensive it is and they have the mentality of "Can it really be this bad? Must investigate further." A shitty reason to buy a book yes, but I can understand it.

Yeah but why aren't men buying it?

This thing has a definite user base and its pretty much exclusively catering to them and them only. I don't think its the same as rotten.com in literature format because fantasizing about submission is some kind of psychological shit. Also its masked in romance. Which I thinks the main reason its spreading so quickly.

From looking at it that way then maybe you could explain why alot of people read "A Child Called It". I mean the general populace and not people that would read into it for psychological purposes.

nuance? i laugh in the face of nuance!

surely if there's one thing the history of marketing has taught us, it's that everybody involved in marketing should be round up and sent to a deserted island where they no longer pose any threat to human civilisation.

People were talking about this book at work yesterday, and it sounds gross. Not gross as in OOOH PERVERTED, but in that it's drivel. Misoginistic rape fantasies, no storyline, badly written. Continuing the downfall of literature promoted by such shite as RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB and stuff. But then, the people at work who read this also read Dan Brown and Twilight, so... it's a fucking cultural cul de sac. And there's me explaining how Twilight encourages STALKING, how Bella has no character of her own, how it's badly written crap etc etc etc.
As soon as they finished talking, I rushed onto Amazon and ordered me Joyce's Ulysses because I am a pretentious cunt. But fuck it, it's a proper book written by a weirdo with a fun way of experimenting with the written language.

Yeah but why aren't men buying it?

gee i wonder.  why aren't boys buying princess dolls???

surely if there's one thing the history of marketing has taught us, it's that everybody involved in marketing should be round up and sent to a deserted island where they no longer pose any threat to human civilisation.

People were talking about this book at work yesterday, and it sounds gross. Not gross as in OOOH PERVERTED, but in that it's drivel. Misoginistic rape fantasies, no storyline, badly written. Continuing the downfall of literature promoted by such shite as RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB and stuff. But then, the people at work who read this also read Dan Brown and Twilight, so... it's a fucking cultural cul de sac. And there's me explaining how Twilight encourages STALKING, how Bella has no character of her own, how it's badly written crap etc etc etc.
As soon as they finished talking, I rushed onto Amazon and ordered me Joyce's Ulysses because I am a pretentious cunt. But fuck it, it's a proper book written by a weirdo with a fun way of experimenting with the written language.

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People were talking about this book at work yesterday, and it sounds gross. Not gross as in OOOH PERVERTED, but in that it's drivel. Misoginistic rape fantasies, no storyline, badly written. Continuing the downfall of literature promoted by such shite as RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB and stuff.

The state of florida banned it from public libraries because of "sexual content" and not the abhorrant mysogyny. Which is worse than just leaving it in libraries I think.

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1RcKJVbHA