I remember how 50 Shades aged up the Bella character to file the serial numbers off and yet made this aspect WORSE Like Anastasia is supposed to be a college graduate with a BA in English in the first book but does not own her own computer and has never looked up porn onlinehttps://twitter.com/benjanun_s/status/1265175845762555905 …
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Christian buys her a laptop for the purpose of ordering her to complete her "homework assignment" of watching porn for the very first time so she can learn what BDSM is, something she's never heard of before It's... fucked up
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Does it say where she got her BA in English without even a hint of worldliness?
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Yes, another oddity: the character moved cross country to attend Washington State University Vancouver, which is a Portland, Oregon-adjacent off-shoot campus of WSU. No one moves here to go to that school. It exists to serve locals who can't afford to move to the main campus.
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The author is British and did very little research
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It's hard to say this without straight up bashing her but it's so obvious that the topic that grips her interest most when writing is luxury consumer goods, status symbols and tourist destinations It feels like it was in fact written by a teenager and not a middle-aged woman
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And I'll confess I read all 3 out of morbid curiosity. I agree with most of the criticism out there, but beside the ludicrous idea that a woman of that age had never masturbated or never really had a sexual thought (and then then went straight into a BDSM arrangement), {1}
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as a Portland local, my biggest complaints in the trilogy were geographic: the WSU Vancouver thing, and a Portland driving thing in the 3rd book. When I read it, my daily evening commute had me driving from downtown Portland to OHSU research hospital. In that book, Christian {2}
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gives her a car, presents it outside the Heathman Hotel whose entrance is on a one-way street headed toward OHSU. She makes a u-turn to go that hospital. Either the car was originally facing the wrong way on that one-way street, or she made an illegal u-turn to go the wrong {3}
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way down a one-way street headed in the opposite direction of her destination.



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Lol I mean it's in the PNW just because that's where Twilight is set and she didn't move it to the UK because she thinks of the US as exciting and exotic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ShrimpMeatMom
LOL, exactly. A friend of mine had warned me about the WSU Vancouver nonsense, like, that's about the point she gave up on the book, and that's before she even meets Christian. In Portland, we sometimes call Vancouver "Vantucky." That's how exciting and exotic it is.
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