I'm not talking about other bad things, though. I'm talking about one bad thing, and other things being bad doesn't make the 50 Shades book not horrendously badly written.

I'm also not hating on the film, TBH. I went to see it with a group of friends who wanted to hatewatch it and... I actually kind of liked it. I know it's been said before, but it being a film stripped away the whole "oh god, the writing is so bad" thing, they tweaked a number of cringey moments to feel more understandable or actually romantic, and I found it well-acted.