In the age of the #Metoo movement and women taking a stand against sexual abuse, it’s not surprising that a boycott is already underway against the latest and, hopefully, last film rendition of the sado-masochistic “love” story known as Fifty Shades which one critic likened to “a bad Tinder date that lasted three years.”
Women across America are reacting with outrage to the newly released trailer for the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey movie which romanticizes and normalizes sexual violence and the degradation of women.
Morality in Media (MIM), the nation's largest organization dedicated to fighting obscenity in the media, is calling for a nationwide protest of Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network citing the reckless glorification of sexual violence and torture recently depicted on the network.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
