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If we don’t have a day in which a rumor about who will be playing Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey film, the world would cease to exist. More
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If we don’t have a day in which a rumor about who will be playing Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey film, the world would cease to exist. More
Well, supposedly. According to sources, an actress has been picked to portray Anastasia Steele in the upcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey movie, based on a really mediocre and not entirely sexy book that we are ashamed of having read. And the candidate doesn’t sound completely absurd! Maybe the movie will be better than the book! Like The Devil Wears Prada! More
Kate Moss has long been known as fashion’s “great Sphinx,” thanks to spending the better part of the 1990s completely silent. That changed a bit when she started to brand herself and do things like design capsule collections for TopShop–but she still doesn’t speak much for someone as famous as she is. More
This week: Wall Street‘s Gordon Gekko, American Psycho‘s Patrick Bateman and Fifty Shades of Grey‘s Christian Grey.
Yikes. More
A weird all new edition of Fifty Shades of Grey is flying right at your face, like a tie, or a noose, or whatever other stuff happens in that book that I could never take seriously enough to finish. Just in time for Valentine’s day! I seem equally unlikely to read the new edition of Fifty Shades of Grey as I was with the last version, but, well, I guess some people will. Here is what you are going to find inside it: More
Anne Hathaway could pull of the role of Anastasia Steele in the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey movie. More
For heaven’s sakes. I don’t like Fifty Shades of Grey because I think it is a very, very badly written book, but this domestic abuse charity seems to be taking a very strong line on it. And by a “strong line” I mean “this is ridiculous.” More
BUT WHO WILL PLAY CHRISTIAN GREY? More
After the fame and glory that Fifty Shades of Grey has brought to the number fifty and the perspectives of colorblind people, I imagine we’ll be seeing a lot of products in the near future that parody the title of E. L. James’ absurdly popular trilogy. But the best one I’ve seen so far that simultaneously makes me laugh and creeps me out? More
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Doesn’t he have better taste than this? More
First of all, there’s a Fifty Shades of Grey magazine. How? Where did it come from? It just appeared in our office, as if by magic. I like to think it found us. And it contains articles by sex surrogates and therapists and Mormons talking about why Fifty Shades of Grey is so popular. Interesting! It also contains sex tips which are not what you’d expect… More
Recently, we were in an elevator with two women discussing Fifty Shades of Grey. One had finished it, we deduced, and the other was nearing the end. The one still torturing her brain admitted she’d been skipping pages, saying, “It just gets so repetitive. They keep doing the same stuff over and over.” To which her companion shook her head gravely, like fucking Socrates, and said, “You have to read between the lines.” This destroyed us for five solid minutes. More
“Which brings us to Fifty Shades of Grey, this year’s Twilight. Seriously: both are nothing more than poorly-written wish-fulfillment, both follow spineless female protagonists and display an impressively facile understanding of human relationships (and earth-shattering, screaming orgasm sex for virgins, LOL).” More

I want to talk about Fifty Shades of Grey. Not about the writing—plenty has already been said of that already. I admit that I hold bad writing in contempt, and E.L. James is a bad writer. The plot, characters, and dialogue could very well have been ripped from a low-budget porno. Or from Twilight (which, funnily enough, seems to be the case—the novel purportedly originated as a fanfiction based on Stephanie Meyers’ series). More