On February 23, 2015, Google announced that they would no longer allow pornography in the popular platform, Blogger, but after pro-porn advocates flooded their forums.
A central Indiana mom is outraged after what her 9-year-old daughter saw on a computer screen at the public library: “She told me she saw a guy looking at porn on the computer.”
University of Illinois at Chicago freshman, Mohammad Hossain, violently assaulted a woman in order to re-enact scenes from “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Washington, DC – “ Fifty Shades of Grey’s” $81.7 million dollar domestic box office record is the result of the media firestorm and a slick, deceptive marketing campaign by Universal Pictures, which peaked the American public’s curiosity to see the film. The film is not the love story it was advertised to be. Rather, as the millions who flocked to the film learned, “Fifty Shades” is nothing more than a porn film filled with hardcore sex and misogyny targeted to women by including a romantic narrative and fancy soundtrack.
From Robin Thicke to Justin Timberlake and Miley Cyrus, 2014 seems to top the years with its explicit music videos, promotion of pornography, degradation of women and violence. YouTube has had to make decisions regarding content from all three artists.
Feminist scholar and activist, Gail Dines, reviews Fifty Shades of Grey: “I was prepared for a bad movie that would make any feminist enraged at the way Grey manipulates and controls women. What I wasn’t prepared for was the way the predatory behavior of Grey in the books looks so much worse when translated into images.”
Critics weigh-in, and “Fifty Shades of Grey” does not get good reviews.
Diana Parry, an associate professor of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, conducted research that found women who read “Fifty Shades of Grey” moved to consume sexually explicit material online, such as pornography.
Washington, DC –Thursday night, February 13, 2015, “Fifty Shades of Grey” was released in theaters. Dawn Hawkins, executive director of National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE), which is the leading organization dedicated to opposing pornography by highlighting the links to sex trafficking, violence against women, and abuse, reluctantly fulfilled her obligation to see the film with the purpose of educating others on its content.
By Gail Dines, Stop Porn Culture and Dawn Hawkins, National Center on Sexual Exploitation Women everywhere have had enough, and now they are taking to
Dawn Hawkins, our Executive Director, has been doing daily interviews with national news outlets who are interested in our message against the popular franchise: it normalizes and promotes domestic abuse.
In just one week, E.L. James fans will see Hollywood’s take on her twisted tale, “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Regardless of the film’s “unusual” content, as the MPAA describes it, the book’s main theme will burn through the big screen: Domestic violence and sexual abuse against women is romantic and empowering—and women want it. You can shade a lie any color you want, but it does not make it true. Hollywood is fetishing gender inequality and selling it as an empowered love story. The latest twist is that this agenda was pushed by morning talked shows, like “The Today Show,” all last week.
