... It’s generally a bad idea to blame victims for using whatever coping mechanisms they have available to them. Lots of people cope with the trauma of rape by trying to redefine it as consensual. Ending a friendship over that is a little bit like being mad at someone who’s drowning for splashing too much.

This. This a million times. “Freeze response” is legitimate and completely ignored, sometimes undermined, by society.

Thank you! I don’t know why we talk about “fight or flight” but never freeze, which is far more common.

This is why people (rightly) promote the “enthusiastic consent” standard!

Me too.

Really? I didn’t even realize Megan Follows was a brunette until I saw her in other stuff.

I learned it was fake...right now. Shows how realistic I thought it was. As a readhead, my hair has grown darker as I got older and I always tell people that I got the hair that Anne always wanted. Her quote I believe, “A nice handsome auburn.”

But if I don’t take the lump sum I cant do stupid things with the money.

You mean Rasberry Cordial.

Having someone who encapsulated the spirit was way more important than the hair.

I've seen some of it. I didn't think it was very good....

Oh no! That's so sad :( All of my Anne books are from my Mom who bought them in Canada when she was in grad school there and I would be so upset if anyone threw them out!

OMFG yasssss.

I believe she’s from Canada (Vancouver). But I’m still cautious. It’s all about casting Anne. Megan Follows was perfect.

He created his own non-profit to help the homeless after meeting Michelle Obama a couple of years ago. http://braedenquinn.com/about/

I get really nervous when I hear that an American writer is going to add content to a well known and very Canadian story. I say this as a Prince Edward Islander, having seen some cringe-worthy supposedly Anne themed things, some produced disappointingly locally.

Probably just being paranoid, eh?

I want someone to make a really good adaptation of Emily of New Moon (& sequels). You can really see L.M. Montgomery’s interest in the occult come through in certain parts.

It makes me nervous when they say they are adding to the story. I’m here on and from Prince Edward Island, and we take our Anne quite seriously. Sometimes.

I will say 100 percent of the reason i will have children is so that I can have small people to watch 8 hours of Anne of Green Gables with every year and sob.

“When Russia beat us to space, we didn’t try to deny it. We didn’t hire scientists to disclaim the validity of that fact. Instead, we put our best and brightest together and built a space program, and 12 years later we were walking on the moon.”