Date rape? More like corrective. It’s a weird scene where he’s laying claim to her, but it’s definitely in the spousal abuse/rape category.

That whole scene used to scare me as a kid, though I wasn’t sure why. Watching it later as an adult, I realized exactly why. Her drunk husband talks about crushing her skull and then rapes her. Scarlett is a terrible person, but Rhett is far worse.

To this day, you still hear people talking about how hot that scene was—it's inspired artworks and even a Christmas ornament. Really Rhett was just one in a long line of abusers we call heroes #50shadesofscarlet and #50shadesofsick

In terms of the Gone With The Wind clip you posted, legally it was marital rape not date rape...no matter what it’s called is horrid! In terms of the full article this article refers to, I read it yesterday and Loretta Young was in a awful position, rape was not publicly refereed to in those days...let alone that it…

OMG my mom and I got into a HUGE thing over this. In the movie there is literally no question that it was rape. In the book (which I read after the fight with my mom, and which was a very very painful slog because it is so racist), Scarlet changes her mind in the middle and decides she wants to have sex with him…

I was seriously just like, man, first the Confederacy turns out to be super racist and not at all a genteel paradise, and now Clark Gable is a rapist. Facts really keep getting in the way of my 10 year old self’s enjoyment of this movie.

Date rape?

I just think it speaks to the point the Buzzfeed article talks about, how “romance” was viewed really differently at the time, and the concept of having “roles” to play was so prevalent.

When you combine the misogyny and assault with the horrific Lost Cause nonsense, Gone With the Wind might be the most noxious film ever made.

I brought this up in a high school class many years ago. It did not go over well.

“the guy tries to get what [he] wants; the woman’s job is to fight him off.” The inability to fend off Gable’s advances constituted a failure on her part — not Gable’s.

O.O

It’s sooooo bad.

I was just making puns ;)

“I’m not much of a play guy.”

“I saw the outlet and ran for it. That was the only outlet I saw, so I thought, ‘Why not?’”

That’s him in the middle? Now I don’t believe his story.

Millenials.

Also, not very tough to hate this guy:

Even though this kid did play the fool, I don't know why security had to act so dramatic.