16 WTF Moments From Fifty Shades Darker
4. BDSM Explained (Badly)
Proponents of BDSM have constantly complained that the Fifty Shades franchise, in both book and film form, presents a poor, possibly damaging understanding of what the practice actually involves, as continues to be evident in this film.
Christian explains to Ana that his taste for physically "abusing" petite brunette women in the bedroom is likely due to his mother, who was herself a petite brunette who abused him and died of a drug overdose when he was a child. This is his way of "getting back" at her.
Aside from perpetuating a negative stereotype to millions of people about those who enjoy BDSM, it plays like super-simplistic armchair psychology and isn't convincing at all.