Twitter: G'ni-kti Pots in Book One: The Not So Daily Briefs 2014
- Nov. 14, 2014, 9:49 a.m.
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1) I am itchy all over… my calves, my thighs, my back, my arms, my neck… this typically means another weather shift is in store but… good golly, it is driving me crazy trying not to itch!
2) This itchiness, among other things, is making it impossible for me to sleep. Gr. This is a key annoyance of Fibromyalgia. Sleep is necessary and good. Sleep is far too often difficult to attain. Without sleep- pain and other sensory issues increase… which make sleeping more difficult...... damned cycles.
3) As part of an experiment my wife and I are trying this month… we tried Jim Beam Maple Whiskey tonight. It is… bizarre. Smells like “Breakfast” but taste is… well… interesting.
4) One of my friends just Facebook Orgasmed her excitement about the new trailer for the Fifty Shades of Grey movie and I am (as always with this “phenomenon”) enraged. Statistically, a large number of women list “dominated/domination” as their primary sexual fantasy. Fifty Shades of Grey was the best selling book since Twilight. The film is expected to make heaps of cash, as did Twilight. BOTH franchises are about aggressive, controlling, dominating men that border on the criminal or abusive. Yet- these men, these franchises, these fantasies are panty droppers and super successful. YET… in the real world? Aggressive men, controlling men… shit, even men who are straight forward with their intentions… are being considered “the bad guy”.... If you want a world where a guy will walk up to you and say “I want to pleasure you until your crotch goes numb”… you can have it. If you want a world where guys will treat women as equals and not sexually objectify women… you can have it. You just can’t have BOTH worlds. So… the strong push for “Evil men look at women as sex objects” just doesn’t jive with the overwhelming support for franchise romances that say “A strong and sexually appealing man takes what he wants with no regard to consequences.”
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Fawkes Gal ⋅ November 14, 2014
I've never read Fifty Shades of Grey, but Twilight was just HORRIBLE. The fact that GROWN women love Edward just makes me queasy. I mean, to each their own, but really? A possessive stalker who allows her no personal freedom and treats her like a child? No, just... no.
Park Row Fallout Fawkes Gal ⋅ November 14, 2014
LOVE what you said about grown women!! I mean... for me... it always comes down to trying to reconcile conflicting duality in society. Look at the Justin Beiber crap --- 40 year old women acting like teenage girls for an underage boy was acceptable by society; but a few years prior when 40 year old men were drooling over Brittany Spears; there was a backlash calling them pervs and pedophiles. I see similar correlations in these trends... a man hears about all these women enjoying Twilight and 50 Shades; attempts to be the dashing, controlling, domineering man he thinks they want; is treated like a criminal and a jerk. I suppose it is just one of those things where... I wish the world was less self-contradictory.
Oh.. and sad story- if you read Twilight, you read 50 Shades. The book was originally a self-published FanFiction where the author decided to do a more "What If" take on the story. "What if... it wasn't supernatural, but a lot more sexual?" The fic was so popular it got published by a real book company and is now the monster that it is today.
Here's a great example... I adore the BBC's Big Fat Quiz of the Year annual show... when 50 Shades hit "Best Seller" status... they had their Masterpiece Host read an excerpt. The video is below but... remember... he's reading from the second chapter! The book basically just started and we're here. (But remember, many women said 50 Shades was nothing like pornography and how dare men make the comparison).
http://youtu.be/-3POYx6IeeI
QueSeraSera ⋅ November 15, 2014
for the itchness in stuff- i hope you feel better!
for 50 shades... i thought the books were hot but a little redundant though. nothing wrong with exploring and having some fune. at some point in a relationship like the one portrayed in the 50 shades book----any woman in her right mind would eventually tell mr. grey to go fuck himself. mind you at first he is sexy, intriguing, lusting, but mr. grey was too controlling and abusive mentally to her. well that is what i think. i think i am going to go all over in this entry. i think the guy play mr. grey is hot. however i dont like the person playing the female role. she does not look like the right person to play the role ( does not look like a confident person) and the trailer mind you turned me off. yes i am going to see the movie none the less.
i believe BOTH women in twilight and 50 shades were portrayed as weak women. i loved twilight. i loved edward. i am not 30 anymore but---------from the books for twilight i was completey annoyed with the bella character the entire series including most of the movies except breaking dawn. finally bella got a little backbone in breaking dawn. as a women above 30 yes-----there are attributes about edward that i like- that i would believe a woman wants in a man. what is wrong with that admiring that? remember edward was over 100 years old also! :)