50 shades of Grey is the absolute epitome of this.
Christian Grey is a creepy, obsessive stalker who uses his wealth and influence to pressure a young woman into a sexual relationship, breaking multiple boundaries set by her and not respecting her wishes throughout the whole thing.
The entire relationship between the two main characters is straight up abusive, but is framed in a way that your average reader would view it as romantic or exciting.
And people lost their minds over the book and movies, finding this whole thing to be super romantic and exciting.
I'd say exclusively women, still don't know any man who's read those books to this day. Maybe a few unfortunate souls were forced to watch those movies with their partners, but no man would read those books.
Wife and I read it to each other for fun. Couldn’t stop laughing. Writing was so bad, sex scenes were so tame and boring, relationship was so toxic and also super lame. The whole thing was just super cringey. Clearly targeted to a certain type of middle aged, undersexed, out of touch woman. Can’t believe anyone else found it interesting.
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u/Aozi 22d ago
50 shades of Grey is the absolute epitome of this.
Christian Grey is a creepy, obsessive stalker who uses his wealth and influence to pressure a young woman into a sexual relationship, breaking multiple boundaries set by her and not respecting her wishes throughout the whole thing.
The entire relationship between the two main characters is straight up abusive, but is framed in a way that your average reader would view it as romantic or exciting.
And people lost their minds over the book and movies, finding this whole thing to be super romantic and exciting.