Semantics are important when defining terms. “Date rape” can happen between two people who barely know each other or people who are well acquainted.
Her era simply didn’t offer that many ways of framing her experience
This has nothing to do with making them “complicit.” Why can’t they just admit that they want to prevent their employees from being able to use BC?
‘Believing that every human person has God-given worth’
Sweet Monkey Jesus.
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?
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.
Rhett is pretty much a grade-A asshole for the entirety of the film, and we’re meant to think it’s a perfect example of romance. I mean, I DID think it was romantic, watching the film as a kid. Watching this clip now, it feels more like a horror movie.
Women of that generation certainly knew what a date-rapist was. They didn’t call them that. “Masher” was a favored term that suggested levels from unwanted kissing on up to unwanted intercourse. There were other expressions as well.
Everyone seems to gloss over the fact that the pivotal “romantic” scene from Gone With the Wind was a date rape.
That’s funny. My gay friends were all shocked that women don’t always cum. “WHAT?! GIRL! You MAKE him take care of you!”
I don’t know if it is just too early or just too much of a Monday, but this has got my blood boiling. The appropriation of a feminist, woc, activist, Lesbian’s words by the very definition of what she stood against, a white, rascist, capitalist, supporter of the patriarchy articulates Lorde’s point exactly: give…
The Trumps just give, give, give...naturally, at some point, they have to think of themselves just a little.
a) she looks so much like Romeo + Juliet era Leo that it’s frightening.
This was a missed opportunity to talk about the problem of the gender binary. While it is FANTASTIC that people are finally more aware and accepting of transgender people, we’re still failing to recognize the problems inherent in imposing a rigid binary, instead of recognizing a spectrum where most people fall more…
glad i’m not alone - seeing $20 as the “normal” comparison to the crazy-rich $600 really made me feel like i was in the twilight zone.
Stonehenge. Feels so obvious.