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Author: Therese Shechter

Therese Shechter is the director of the documentaries How To Lose Your Virginity, I Was A Teenage Feminist and "How I Learned to Speak Turkish. She curates the interactive online story collection "The V-Card Diaries" and is one of the feminist podcasters of Downton Gabby. For more info, see here.
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I Watched “50 Shades of Grey” So You Don’t Have To

Therese Shechter

I saw 50 Shades of Grey at a free preview screening Tuesday night, several days before its day-before-Valentine’s-Day premiere, and I wish I’d been given a safe word to make the movie stop. Because 50 Shades of Grey is bad. Not so bad it’s good, but just bad. And it’s boring. Especially the sex. I mean, if you thought the books […]

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