50 Shades of “I’ll Have What She’s Having”

Posted by on Dec 12, 2012 in Books, I'll have what she's having, Illusion of I, Social Influence, Social Learning, The THing Thing, What kind of thing? | One Comment


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Nice piece by the always excellent Victoria Coren in GQ this month exploring (for a male audience) the whole 50 Shades of Grey phenomenon. Here she discusses why women are reading it…

"You can shelve the idea of awkward
mimicry; women are not necessarily reading Fifty Shades
because they find it sexy anyway.They are reading it for two reasons. First: because everyone
else is. There comes a point when one simply has to join in for
fear of being left out. But I was the same about getting a
recycling bin, and that didn't turn me on much either"

Another example of IHWSH and the People not the Thing thing?