Chapter 10
Do you know what a helicopter parent is? A bad one. You know, the ones who control every aspect of their kids life, by every, I mean salary negotiations. Now, this isn't a parenting blog, but these along with "I'll give my kid everything so they'll love me"types of parents annoy me. Even more if they're combined into one parent... I mean really. So, meet Christians mom:
| But girls have COOTIES!!! |
Christian is a grown ass man in his own apartment, yet his mom comes in and is all "I demand to see my son, why is he still in bed? WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S NOT ALONE?!"
I can see a mom acting like this if her son is 12... not 27...
Ugh... I digress.
Christian leaves Ana to go calm down his crazy ass mother, and Ana gets all excited about meeting mommy dearest because it'll help put together a piece of this puzzle and maybe help her figure out why Christian likes kinky sex.
Let me just say here that BDSM is not a symptom of some fucked up mental problem. Like I stated before, BDSM is a sexual expressions between consenting adults who both equally find enjoyment and pleasure in that arrangement. This is why I don't think Ana has a clear grasp on sex. Not to mention she then calls herself a hoe, because is sex is dirty. Slut shaming is really horrible E.L.James, really bad. You are a bad name to feminists everywhere.
So she meets Christians mom and angst! she is so much prettier than me. Ugh... anyway, in the midst of meeting Mrs. Grey, Jose calls. Jose is all "why haven't you returned my phone calls?"
Oh, I'll just take a stab in the dark here and say it's because he sexually assaulted Ana. Does Ana say that? Nope. Instead she tells him it's a bad time and she'll call him back later. Other than the fact that Ana doesn't stand up to Jose and tell him to fuck off, it's the next bit that turns my "flush" color in my face to "anger of 1000 suns."
After Christians mother leaves, he glares at Ana and is all "was that the photographer?" He then withdraws, gets his assistant on the phone and matter of fact hands her the sex contract and tells her to read it, research it, and educate herself before signing it. But low and behold she doesn't have a computer (but she has an ipod... bet you didn't catch that either... not to mention she's a college graduate. How the hell is this even remotely realistic. Like, I get that it's supposed to be fantasy, but come the hell on.)
So now that Christian is being a complete and total dick since Jose called Ana, something Ana had no control over; she'd like to make a phone call.
"The photographer?" His jaw clenches, and his eyes burn. I blink at him. "I don't like to share, Miss Steele. Remember that." His quiet, chilling tone is a warning, and with one long, cold look at me, he heads back to the bedroom.
Holy crap. I just wanted to call Kate, I want to call after him, but his sudden aloofness has left me paralyzed. What happened to the generous, relaxed, smiling man who was making love to me not half an hour ago?
Ugh... I digress.
Christian leaves Ana to go calm down his crazy ass mother, and Ana gets all excited about meeting mommy dearest because it'll help put together a piece of this puzzle and maybe help her figure out why Christian likes kinky sex.
Let me just say here that BDSM is not a symptom of some fucked up mental problem. Like I stated before, BDSM is a sexual expressions between consenting adults who both equally find enjoyment and pleasure in that arrangement. This is why I don't think Ana has a clear grasp on sex. Not to mention she then calls herself a hoe, because is sex is dirty. Slut shaming is really horrible E.L.James, really bad. You are a bad name to feminists everywhere.
So she meets Christians mom and angst! she is so much prettier than me. Ugh... anyway, in the midst of meeting Mrs. Grey, Jose calls. Jose is all "why haven't you returned my phone calls?"
Oh, I'll just take a stab in the dark here and say it's because he sexually assaulted Ana. Does Ana say that? Nope. Instead she tells him it's a bad time and she'll call him back later. Other than the fact that Ana doesn't stand up to Jose and tell him to fuck off, it's the next bit that turns my "flush" color in my face to "anger of 1000 suns."
After Christians mother leaves, he glares at Ana and is all "was that the photographer?" He then withdraws, gets his assistant on the phone and matter of fact hands her the sex contract and tells her to read it, research it, and educate herself before signing it. But low and behold she doesn't have a computer (but she has an ipod... bet you didn't catch that either... not to mention she's a college graduate. How the hell is this even remotely realistic. Like, I get that it's supposed to be fantasy, but come the hell on.)
So now that Christian is being a complete and total dick since Jose called Ana, something Ana had no control over; she'd like to make a phone call.
"The photographer?" His jaw clenches, and his eyes burn. I blink at him. "I don't like to share, Miss Steele. Remember that." His quiet, chilling tone is a warning, and with one long, cold look at me, he heads back to the bedroom.
Holy crap. I just wanted to call Kate, I want to call after him, but his sudden aloofness has left me paralyzed. What happened to the generous, relaxed, smiling man who was making love to me not half an hour ago?
This. Is. Horseshit. This is not how a man is supposed to treat a lady, this is not chivalrous, and it sure as hell isn't respectful. He's withholding affection because another man called her, something she had no control over. This is emotionally abusive and mentally manipulating. You know how relationships end in real life if they start off like this? With a dead woman. So take this whole "this is what women want" "this is the ideal relationship" "they're falling in love" horseshit, and shove it.
I almost stopped reading the book after this because of my anger. Why? Because this is kinda of bull shit is dangerous. It's dangerous because women are flocking to this and it's telling them that this type of behavior is okay. It's telling women that it's okay for a man to treat you like garbage if he really, really loves you, or if you want him to really, really love you, you need to put up with it.
But I didn't stop, because someone needs to be a voice of reason in all of this.
After Christian relents to letting Ana talk about "in general sex stuff" with Kate, but nothing directly about him, we get this fucking gem from Christian:
"The sooner I have your submission the better, and we can stop all this," he murmurs.
"Stop all what?"
"You, defying me." He reaches down and cups my chin and plants a swift, sweet kiss on my lips as the doors to the elevator open. He grabs my hand and leads me into the underground garage.
Me, defying him... how?
"Stop all what?"
"You, defying me." He reaches down and cups my chin and plants a swift, sweet kiss on my lips as the doors to the elevator open. He grabs my hand and leads me into the underground garage.
Me, defying him... how?
Next she'll be wanting to vote. Honestly, if you can't figure out why this little gem from Christian made me want to vomit, you haven't been paying attention.
They go to lunch... and he demands that she eats. When she asks if this is what they're relationship will be like, as to him ordering around, he replies bluntly that not only will it be that way, but she'll want him too. Because we owe everything to men, amirite?
I really couldn't even finish this chapter because of this bull shit. So there you have it.
