Agreed. This piece made me physically nausious I found it so disturbing. I can’t help but think of how my mother (who was not alive during most of this but still considers it the golden age of Hollywood) glorifies these people and their movies so much. My first little one is on the way in about half a year, and…

corollary to “never meet your heroes.” Never re-watch old movies you thought you liked. The misogyny is unbearable.

My fucking face as I read this fucking story. Not a criticism of the writing or whatever, just, ugh, humans. How do women not burn the world down every day in protest? Probably didn’t help that the background noise was NPR talking about Boko Haram using young girls for suicide bombers. Fuck humanity, we have lost the…

In 1949 a woman was spanked in public and it was declared to be love. As recently as 1963 (according to the dates here, possibly there are later examples) movies still considered spanking to be proper discipline for grown women. Tell me again how we don't need feminism? These dates don't make me think "ancient…

Buncha comments about dude’s boners right next to comments by women about how fucking nausea-inducingly terrible this is. THANKS DUDES WITH BONERS.

This is very well written and researched. It’s also stomach-turning.

I think I am super glad I never liked old movies because I feel like I have lived a calmer life not knowing the existence of this shit. Really well-written, well-researched article, but I’m going to be over here vomiting for the next 20 minutes or so.