Episode 15.5 – Fifty Shades of Grey (The Movie)
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Renata was snowed in, so she had three lesbians–Kait, returning guest Anna of Bellwether Friends, and internet personality Laura–tell her all about the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. They all agreed: it needed more dick. We also addressed various weird plot points of the book that we ran out of time to discuss in the last episode, encouraged people to donate money to whatever charity they want whenever they want, and made controversial comparisons to Love Actually. There’s no way you can be as sick of hearing about Fifty Shades of Grey as we are of talking about it, so put on your sex jeans and tune in to this bonus episode!
Footnotes: American Sniper film ‘behind rise in anti-Muslim threats’
Anti-Sex Worker Activists Are Behind #50DollarsNot50Shades
“A Few Thoughts on Fifty Shades of Grey” by Roxane Gay
The Rocky Road to the Making of the Fifty Shades of Grey Movie
Intro to BDSM Safety by Abby Howard (NSFW)
Coming up next: Middle School, The Worst Years of my Life by James Patterson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers where we watched a movie about legally non-biting sex paperwork so you don't have to. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:21.2 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:22.5 | And for this episode, we've watched the movie version of 50 Shades of Grey. |
| 0:28.2 | Joining us to discuss this controversial film is a returning guest librarian and bellwether friend, Anna. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello. |
| 0:36.5 | Hey. |
| 0:40.1 | And a new guest for the movie episode, |
| 0:47.7 | Internet Personality, Laura. Hello. Welcome. All right. So right off the bat, I want to say that these three have seen the movie. I haven't seen it because I personally have decided that I'm |
| 0:53.4 | going to donate $50 to charity instead of seeing this movie. |
| 0:57.0 | Just kidding. It's because there's an ice storm and I can't leave my house. |
| 1:03.0 | Otherwise, I would definitely be out there contributing my money to this garbage. |
| 1:10.0 | But we did want to start off talking a |
| 1:12.6 | little bit just about the controversy. Even like after we put out our episode about it, some |
| 1:18.4 | people on Twitter said that they thought we were excusing abuse or making light of it. |
| 1:24.0 | And there's definitely been a lot. Wait, really? Yeah. Yeah. What was the reaction? |
| 1:29.3 | Mostly favorable. I mean, mostly favorable. Mostly people, I think, either agreed with us or |
| 1:35.4 | just didn't want to talk to us, but yeah, there were a few who did not feel the same as us and |
| 1:42.0 | disagreed strongly with us, which is their prerogative on the |
| 1:45.9 | internet. But also, just to be totally clear, if you actually are in a relationship that reminds |
| 1:53.8 | you of Anna and Christian in a bad way, you don't like it, yeah, you're probably in an abusive |
| 1:59.1 | relationship. Red flag yeah like i totally |
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