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The movie is coming out! Fifty Shades of Grey! There’s a BIG buzz on Facebook. Women who read the book are salivating to see it all come to life on the big screen. Oooohh!

Before I go further though, let me apologize for the long title. I wanted to call this “Fifty Shades of Crazy” but my editor wouldn’t let me so I was forced to euphemize with psychological terms. Now I’ll admit up front, I haven’t read the book. I don’t want to. And I don’t want to because of what women who have read the book have said about it. And I’m not talking just about the critics…I’m talking about the fans!

“It’s soft-core porn for women.”

“So here it is, I gave the book a chance and found myself mesmerized by the relationship between Ana and Chris. I found potential in their relationship and the idea that Grey was a haunted soul. What women can resist the subliminal need to nurture a tortured soul? I tried to look beyond the BDSM and found myself getting more and more comfortable with their relationship. The chemistry between the characters is clear and charged with electricity, the explicit scenes often times made me blush.”

For those of you who are unaware, the book is about a “relationship” between a 21-year-old female old student who interviews a 27 year-old self-made billionaire who takes an interest in her and leads her into a sexual relationship based on bondage, dominance, and sado-masochism. Sounds romantic, eh? Well I guess some seem to think so as the film is being released on Valentine’s Day.

I’m sorry, but as a licensed mental health professional I have to state the obvious. The world has gone crazy. There’s no other adequate word to describe it, except for perhaps sick or twisted. After all these years of feminism touting the equality of women and supposedly fighting for such rights and dignity, the truth could not be clearer. Modern feminists have succeeded in doing to women what the worst misogynist only dreamed of 100 years ago. Actually, I should correct that statement. Modern feminists have succeeded in getting women to do to themselves what the worst misogynist only dreamed of doing to women 100 years ago. There. That’s more accurate.

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