Dat Gregory Peck.

I don’t see how anyone could read about Atticus Finch and not be jaded by the legal system already. Atticus loses his case, his client dies in jail, and systematic racism continues in his small town.

Considering the NY Times review says the Tom Robinson verdict is different in GSAW, it can’t be canon. Alternate universe at best. (And no, it wouldn’t have been due to an appeal because TKAM spoiler.)

Isn’t what Atticus becomes (a scared, raging racist) the future of all liberal Whites? This is something common in my experience. As I’ve aged into my mid-twenties, I’ve seen people age into middle-age (40s-50s) and devolve into God-worshipping, fearful racists. These are people that I met as a teenager who were in…

This. I think people confuse movie-Atticus (all honor, integrity, fathering, and Gregory Peck’s good looks) with book-Atticus, who was not quite as heroic, even though he was doing what was right.

But this is the ORIGINAL book - TKMB was the cleaned up version that the publisher wanted to see.

I always read Atticus Finch as a classist pragmatist who had sympathy for One of the Good Ones — never as an anti-racist or a through-and-through crusader for equality.

Is this even considered TKM canon considering it’s highly debatable whether Lee ever intended it to be published. Maybe even Lee didn’t think it was authentic to the characters and that’s why she scrapped it?

I was thinking the same thing. It’s not unheard of for this to happen. My own mother, who raised me to be the gay agnostic liberal I am today (well, maybe just the liberal part), started getting mad at “having to press 1 for English” and seeing Spanish and French directions written on products toward the end of her…

the unimpeachably honest public defender who saved a wrongfully accused black man’s life

I haven’t even read the pre-release chapters, but based on this, I wonder whether there is some lesson about how people often get more conservative as they get older? How fear plays a part in that change, and people are vulnerable to influence? How there was a rise of protectionism as civil rights were recognized for…

To this day I just have to think about the moment that goal went into the back of the net and I start crying. Every time. It was really impactful in the same way you described. It felt really awesome at the time for the short term gratification of winning in such an exciting way, but that really did give me an…

I know, right? I’ve got one girl kid that plays lacrosse and one that plays softball. The girls teams have to claw and fight for every minute of stadium time. Seeing those little girls so excited gives me FEELINGS...

oh god, the thank you for letting us dream poster ;~;

so many of them on the train this morning. just roving bands of kickass little girls and i was just standing there cramped on the A train like

Seeing all those young kids so excited makes me have cry emotions. I am 100% back at WWC '99, 13 years old, pants freshly pissed in from the excitement of Chastain's winning goal. I literally pissed my pants when we won. I fucking love soccer.

The most watched soccer event ever in the US? Damn. Most outstanding.

Is It Abstinence first”or Abstinence only”-because as a non-American sometimes I don’t see the big deal about the former, then find out it’s actually the latter.