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What did women find so appealing about 50 shades of Gray?
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Northwest · M
I'll give you my male perspective.
I had a girlfriend who's an avid reader, so books were on my regular gift list, and I usually went by the NY Times list. I had no clue what 50 Shades of Gray was about, but it ended up as a gift for her. Up to that point, I thought of her as more of an extreme feminist, and an academic/scientist.
Then, she asked me to read it. And I did, and figured out immediately why she asked me to read it.
It turns out she's a submissive, and had no idea how to bring it up...
I saw the movie, and it was disappointing. What I could not figure out, about the book, is how the author, a British woman, who did not live in Seattle, knew so much about Seattle and Washington state. A lot of the places she describes in the book, are only known by locals. The parking lot, where they end up after the car chase, is now gone, replaced by the Weyerhaeuser glass headquarters.
I had a girlfriend who's an avid reader, so books were on my regular gift list, and I usually went by the NY Times list. I had no clue what 50 Shades of Gray was about, but it ended up as a gift for her. Up to that point, I thought of her as more of an extreme feminist, and an academic/scientist.
Then, she asked me to read it. And I did, and figured out immediately why she asked me to read it.
It turns out she's a submissive, and had no idea how to bring it up...
I saw the movie, and it was disappointing. What I could not figure out, about the book, is how the author, a British woman, who did not live in Seattle, knew so much about Seattle and Washington state. A lot of the places she describes in the book, are only known by locals. The parking lot, where they end up after the car chase, is now gone, replaced by the Weyerhaeuser glass headquarters.