#MeToo And ‘Fifty Shades’ Are Only Compatible For Moral Cretins So if the truth of 'Fifty Shades' trilogy is not that women want to be beaten, or that mistreating women is okay so long as they agree to it, what is it? By Joy Pullmann
February 13, 2018Over at the Washington Post, Forward opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon argues “Of course women can fantasize about domination but still insist on consent.†She writes that there is nothing wrong with women flocking to see the latest “Fifty Shades of Grey†flick, which glamorizes a man criminally transgressing sexual boundaries with his enabling female partner, while continuing to publicly express horror at men who follow suit in real life.
What we are asking of men is to know that women can fantasize about quasi-consent but that it is supremely unsexy when men engage in it. We can want romance novels and movies and rom-coms to indulge those ideas without wanting them to leap into real life.
Perhaps future women raised in cultures blessedly freed from patriarchy will no longer want to read ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ But until we are a nation of such Amazons, let us not insist that women give up their pleasures. We can demand a new reality while enjoying our old fantasies.
Besides consent, hypocrisy is just about the only standard our secular elites have preserved to wield against transcendent moral norms. Censure against people like Roy Moore and Bill Cosby is all the stronger because their accused misdeeds contradict public standards they’ve advocated.
Yet it appears Ungar-Sargon is fine with hypocrisy now as long as it’s directed towards her preferred form of sexual deviance. Under her standard, it would be okay for Moore to fantasize about molesting teen girls so long as he never actually followed through on these fantasies. If that’s not moral cretinism, I don’t know what is.
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http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/13/metoo-fifty-shades-compatible-youre-moral-cretin/
