Being indignant about unconsented spankings doesn’t have to be spawned by not being ‘dominated’ by a male figure. For a lot of people (and yeah, in my case) you can even have moms that would beat the heck out of you, and then pull a common abuser’s tactic by making you believe that not only do you deserve the beatings…

Yeah, I remember reading that—and it led me to believe that the only reason why Claire had tortured and mindf*cked Jamie out of his trauma was simply out of vindictiveness for being previously beaten by Jamie. I read the whole book during high school and it absolutely convinced me that both characters were awful and…