Originally Posted by
soberlicious 
If we want to talk about the impact 50 shades might have on our young women, we need to go back farther than that. Way farther.
Excellent point. We have a culture that still supports the Leave it to Beaver way of life in many institutions. Women have culturally been led to believe that they are supposed to be below men, economically, emotionally, sexually and otherwise. It was in place long before the 50s but TV and media has helped to shape things with a more ingrained notion.
Women have been empowered a lot in the past 20 or so years, but there are still a lot of perceptions they deal with that still is commonplace.