TMZ - The publisher behind the steamy New York Times bestseller "50 Shades of Grey"
is coming out swinging against libraries that have banned the book --
claiming the censorship violates readers' First Amendment rights. A
rep for Random House tells TMZ, the publishing house "fervently opposes
literary censorship and supports the First Amendment rights of readers
to make their own reading choices. The book, in case you don't
know, is about a man and his sex slave in Seattle -- hooray! -- and
libraries in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Florida have already banned it due
to its racy content. But sexually deviant or not, the book is
still a book -- at least according to the rep at Random House, who says,
"We believe the Brevard County Public Library System [in Florida] is
indulging in an act of censorship, and essentially is saying to library
patrons: we will judge what you can read."
FINALLY! God...It took the uber-conservative library card watch dogs long enough, huh? I'd been lamenting on twitter for the past couple of weeks how there hadn't been a good old fashioned book burning show down over this book, looks like we might finally be getting it (and again, that's what you're missing if you're not following me on twitter, me lamenting the lack of bigoted book burnings over softcore "mommy porn" fiction...kicking yourself, huh?).
I was seriously concerned for our society for a second when woman in liberal, metropolitan areas were allowed to read whatever brand of smut they so chose without backwards thinking conservatives from the south and heartland of America being offended to the point of action.
Glad that's finally rectified, because if there's one thing we know for sure, it's that after reading popular fictional book series' people immediately go out and incorporate all the weird stuff they took in, into their real lives.
All the weird vampire-fetishizing teens, the parents naming there kids Bella after characters in the Twilight movies, and a wide range of adults and kids dressing up and pretending they can ride on brooms like they're actually in the Harry Potter books...After 50 Shades of Grey I fully expected young, empowered women to start riding the subway to work, leather bound in some bondage fetish outfit.
