Fifty Shades of Grey

     About a year or so ago I remember having the discussion with several people about how women have no place to "escape".  Boys have their sports, fantasy football teams, video games and superhero movies.  Lots of men in tights I might add.  Women had soaps back in the day but I don't know many people who still watch the few that are still around.  Ladies stayed home and served up tv dinners while the family was off doing whatever.  Today we work, whip up Martha style meals and are supermoms while we are at it.  I think somewhere between the olden days and fighting for our rights for equality we went a little too far.  Now we seem to do everything...with little rest or relaxation.  We have to be perfect.  We can't waste time.  In this previously mentioned discussion I remember talking about how men could find a few hours to get away from work and chores and fatherly duties by watching the game or picking a fake team to play around with on draft day.  They could get lost in the graphics and excitement of a game that made them shoot the zombies or steal a car or save the world.  For some reason they get away with it.  Maybe it's because they allow themselves to chill.  Women are relentless...especially with ourselves.  We have lots to do and even more to prove.  Always. 
     I'm seeing a bit of a shift.  I kept asking, "What is it that women have to escape with?".  Before I knew it blogs took off bigger than ever, Twitter finally became a household word, Pinterest became our new addiction and then there was a book.  Not just any book.  A #1 NY Times Bestseller.  And it's naughty.  Women everywhere have traded in the books that made us craftier, smarter and healthier to pick up a book that was pure entertainment.  They call it Mommy porn.  In this shift we are even claiming some time and space in an arena that men have been living in forever. 
     A friend of mine told me she was reading it.  I asked to borrow it when she was finished.  Records might have been broken for a speedy finish and though I have heard it's a fast and simple read I can't help but think the content makes it hard to put down.  Tonight, I will check it out...ya know...to research what all of the buzz is about.  Maybe just maybe there is hope yet for us chicks!