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CMV: I think Fifty Shades/Twilight type novels are no more harmful than any other media with flawed characters.

A common complaint about the Fifty Shades of Grey series and the Twilight series is that it will make impressionable young girls think that abusive behavior is acceptable. 

To me, this is the same argument as saying that shooting games make kids violent. This is the same as saying Metallica influenced murderers, when murderers caused murders, not media. Even if the media is saying "steal this album" or "beat your wife", it is important for the individual to make the right decisions despite what the media surrounding them dictates they do, and for parents of society to parent instead of restricting the media and doing it for them. 

To me, with this argument you take away the onus from the potential criminal, or someone who is going to take advantage of a naive young girl, and putting the onus on society to provide media that is squeaky clean and acceptable to everyone (a very tough goal). 

Specifically, people who support this notion that it somehow creates poor, unacceptable behavior, are disconnecting their opinion from any situation in which media is blamed for other poor, unacceptable behavior. 

This is within a society that has:
1. A movie rating system to prevent youngsters from seeing too much

2. TV that is shaped to be morally acceptable based on strict standards 

And also, there is much more questionable, much more perverse books in the library/bookstore. Same goes for Netflix/movie theater. 

I feel that by suggesting that we limit people's access to these movies and books to "save the children", that there could be censorship repercussions that aren't worth it. 

Note: I am not commenting on the quality of these stories. I read the Twilight Saga many times, and I couldn't make it all the way through Fifty Shades series. I watched most of the Twilight movies. They are of decent to poor quality and artistically okay(at best). The infatuation/love/lust is what sells these novels. I don't care to argue over why they suck as a story outside of the potential societal implications.
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I think 50 Shades is probably *more* damaging than Twilight because it presents itself as an intro to BDSM relationships for people who aren't already familiar with them.  Safe, healthy BDSM absolutely requires consent, trust, and the ability to say "no" to anything, at any time, and for any reason.  But in 50 Shades, Christian Grey is so controlling that Ana is *afraid* of him.  She worries about visiting family members and being allowed to drive.  She feels pressured into sex acts.  This isn't BDSM, it's an abusive relationship with about a million domestic violence red flags.  But 50 Shades is the first and *only* BDSM education that a lot of its readers will get.  They're going to think that fear is something normal and desirable that they'll just have to tolerate if they want kinky sex.  Twilight features unhealthy relationships too, but most people get their relationship education from more than one source.