Here is a status update to my Friends on Facebook today:
“Dear America,
Fifty Shades of Grey!? Fifty Shades of Grey!? come the F*CK on! Haven’t we seen this before? It’s CALLED “EROTICA” and the “SEX” book! Isn’t this the same type of fantasy stuff that got Madonna forever hated by some people? That’s it! America has finally managed to make bondage and various “kink” uncool….Now it has become Oprah book-club soccer-mom bullshit!? What the hell!
That is all.”
As you can probably tell, I have finally emerged from my NBA basketball coma and have directed my attention to what is going on in pop-culture/the world at large.
What the hell is happening to people with this “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy crap?
Is America really this horny all of sudden? Fifty shades of Grey. Magic Mike. Vampire Orgies on True Blood. Mainstream coach-potato America is getting comfortable showing off their sexual curiosities in public? It is as unsettling as watching your parents drunkenly make-out at a family reunion…and probably even more rote looking! It all seems so artless AND raunch-less at the same time. It occupies that BORING grey area that America seems really good at finding. It’s that banal/mediocre area that is searched out like a truffle and gorged on by the masses.
I can’t wait for the Fifty Shades empire and branding to come next: Fifty shades curtains, fifty shades butt plugs, fifty shades soap for washing away the “shame” and fifty shades Ray Bans (I got a million ideas for them… 🙂 ) . All of this will happen until we “shoot” our collective load on this type of stuff and “walk-of-shame” our way back to pretending that we don’t think of this stuff all of the time…again.
Ultimately that is what really bothers me about this little KINK/FETISH phase America seems to be going through right now. We don’t know how to handle incorporating sex into our society in a mature way . So we end up seesawing between “sexy” and “saints” . Until we can learn how to incorporate sex into the pop-culture without the stupid shame dance afterwards…we should leave the kink to the Germans and French (not to mention the Dutch).
No one likes a mere “Tourist” into dark/different territory!
Bad! Bad America!…you “dirty little whore”! lol!
I am all for people exploring a little more. Only if this is all SHAME FREE, though. No one wants a bunch of psychologically damaged straight-laced people with regrets walking around, condemning everyone because they couldn’t handle it.
lol 🙂 !
yeahhedid! 