A grassroots campaign, launched last week and gaining steam on social media, is urging moviegoers to boycott Fifty Shades of Grey and use the money they would spend on tickets, popcorn and drinks ($50) to support a domestic violence shelter or agency.
Washington, DC – While many will choose to watch Fifty Shades of Grey, the movie will not live up to expectations at the box office. This film is not a love story, as it has been described. Love does not exist in a story glamorizing sexual violence and domestic abuse. Thanks to the media firestorm falsely portraying the film as a romantic fairy tale, there will surely be packed theaters at the film’s opening. However, sales will quickly drop as people see that once the glitz, glamour, and soundtrack are removed, Fifty Shades is really just a disappointing story that tells the public to embrace violence against women.
While many of us are counting down the days until February 13, the day the film adaptation of the literary juggernaut Fifty Shades of Grey hits movie theaters, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE), previously known as Morality in the Media, feels otherwise.
National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE) today launched an aggressive national campaign against the controversial film, Fifty Shades of Grey. NCSE’s new webpage, fiftyshadesisabuse.com highlights 50-plus ways that Fifty Shades harms and provides various actions that the public can take, including signing a boycott petition and joining the #50DollarsNot50Shades campaign, which calls on patrons to forgo the film and donate to women’s shelters instead.
Hoping to capitalize on the looming opening of the much-touted “Fifty Shades of Grey” on Valentine’s Day weekend, activists fighting domestic abuse have launched a campaign urging people to donate to shelters for battered women rather than spend money on tickets to a movie that they say glorifies the abuse of women.
By Nice Daswani February 3, 2015 Christianity Today Fifty Shades of Grey is set to premiere over the Valentine’s Day weekend enticing moviegoers to see
Matt Fradd, from Covenant Eyes, talks about why Fifty Shades of Grey is not just a love story, but violent, misogynistic pornography filled with subtle (and not so subtle) lies about sexuality.
Truth has one shade and this is what it looks like. The mass media and throngs of women are swooning over the “love story” Fifty
National Center on Sexual Exploitation promotes #FiftyShadesisAbuse and #50DollarsNot50Shades campaigns to expose dangers of “Fifty Shades Grey” Washington, D.C. – National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE)
The annual “Dirty Dozen” list of sexual exploiters, which typically highlights companies that use soft porn to sell goods and popular websites that offer sex, has declared the Department of Justice a top offender.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) gave the film, Fifty Shades of Grey, an R rating for “unusual behavior.”
Anti-pornography organization Morality in Media (MIM) has expressed contempt for Harvard University’s “Sex Week.”
