Welcome back to Hannity! it's the movie women all over are talking about: Fifty
Shades Of Gray based on the notably steamy book that took suburbia by storm
a few years ago; one of my next guest says the blockbuster film sends the
wrong message to women though; joining us now to explain what she means: the
president of live action Lila Rose and here with us in studio is clinical
psychologist Dr. Victoria Wilson. We're glad to see you both! First to you, Lila: why do you
say that this movie, based on a book, that was written as far as I can tell- I
read the book- it was it was targeted exclusively to women. like I don't think-
I'm the only man who ever read this book. why is this bad for women? it's for women,
written by a woman, how could it be bad for women? I mean it's bad for a number
of reasons: first of all this is a story about domestic abuse, about the sexual
violence and the manipulation and domination of a young girl by a man who
was abused himself and then went on to become an abuser. And it's glamorized,
it's romanticized, and it's sold in a nice suit by a multi-millionaire guy who's
going to sweep her off her feet, and women are watching this and and
consuming it and many people today- and it's a problem all across the country-
are facing domestic abuse in their own homes. We have a crisis of sexual abuse
on our universities, on our college campuses, and yet we're flocking on
Valentine's weekend to celebrate the romanticization of abuse and that's the
problem with this film, along with the fact that it promotes
depictions of violent pornography. Well I tend to agree with you; I
thought it was creepy as hell and stupid, but women loved it. I found it totally unappealing and I mean that
It's super creepy. And yet young girls are being marketed it. Okay, but adult women the ones in my
neighborhood the 40 year old ones with kids who have college degrees and are smart- they
chose to buy it. And they loved it. And so, why is that Dr. Wilson? Why would women
like something like this? well first of all the movie does is really
normalize a very common female sexual fantasy; dominance and submission. And
both men and women exhibit that fantasy all the time. In terms of women, it
actually deprives them of the the shame and guilt
that most women feel when they realize they have that fantasy, so in that way
the movie is actually a positive message because it allows women to feel- to
normalize their feelings. It's a very common- so they want to be dominated, but
they feel guilty about that? Dr. Wilson, women do not want to be dominated. We want to
see leadership and we want respect. There's a difference between sexual abuse and the domination that comes with it, and the respectful pursuit of a woman. It does raise a
question, Lila, about consent and if - you know- if adult women find this appealing-
I don't get it, and you clearly find that embarrassing, but I mean can we say that
they shouldn't find it appealing? I mean who knows what the heart wants.
Well here's the thing Tucker. I mean, my heart goes out to women all across our
country because women want to be pursued; they want to be admired, desired,
absolutely. But the way that we're being marketed this by a glitzy Hollywood film
and a multi-million dollar industry which is making money off of these books
and this film, is in a sadomasochistic, violent, manipulative way. And that's
what's extremely disturbing about this film and about this whole industry built
around promoting violent sex and domination as somehow something that
women want! I mean the whole cry of the rapist is that women want it.
The whole cry of Vanderbilt University or UVA is that, well, she
wanted it. She had it coming. And that whole narrative that's being promoted is what
we need to stand against. Right and again I'm with you; I found it
unattractive and creepy and inexplicable, really- I don't see this movie any
different from Basic Instinct or from millions of romance novels and movies before that. Here's the
difference here's the difference this is only for women there no again no men
read the book it wasn't for me it was half weeks I mean there's been plenty of
movies and books out there that cater to various alternative social practices
this movie is groups like we got young girls are being taught young girls are
being targeted by this IMDB the highest rate
for this movie came from girls under the age of 18 groups like Planned Parenthood
are promoting BDSM and violent sexual practices to teenagers you can say
you're a 40 year old woman and it's all about your choices but this is our
culture and we have to protect our young girls and teach respect to them I feel
I'm still unfortunate I'm I'm still confused as to what women want but I
know I think it's it's cleaner it's for consent thanks doctor coming up more
handy