Apparently she had fairly decent grandparents. Not available in this case, unfortunately.

OMG so the movie/book Children of Men was right? Scary. I wonder who the world's youngest person will be?

I don't doubt there were isolated incidents where that sort of thing did happen, much like what loonytick said below.

"There's a scene in the streets with a newly-freed slave begging anyone to send him back "home" because "I's had enough a dis freedom.""

It's tough. My great-grandmother read the novel while pregnant with my grandma (in 1939 Kentucky), and we've passed down the book in our family for every generation since. I abhor the racism, I still can't help but love the core, dysfunctional Scarlett/Rhett dynamic, and I haven't yet run across a more compelling…

That's kind of the point. The southern ladies and gentlemen had their heads up their asses. They thought their world would live forever, and it didn't. Scarlett and Rhett survived because they dispensed with nostalgia and the trappings of their social backgrounds and got into the dirty work of making money.

Look, my people were poor white trash and for the most part fought for the North, one even got shot after the war for deciding to go to an ex-Confederate general's bar where they knew he rode with Sherman, but I fucking love Gone with the Wind.

She doesn't lose "everything." The point of the ending is that she still has Tara, and as long as she has that, she's still in a position to rebuild the rest. The Scarlett at the end of the book isn't being punished, she's being put in a position where her life is stripped down to the essentials so she can find out…

Thank you. I'd not want to live in a world where we dismiss reality because it's unpleasant to think about. Personally, I find nothing "romantic" about much of the film as much as I see it as a powerful portrayal of how people actually lived and thought in the south back then. There are lessons to take away, not to…

I'm a gay white Southern male, so liking the film is almost compulsory. I hadn't seen it in 20 years, so it was a dreadful experience when I rewatched it as an adult—things my gayby brain didn't notice became painfully obvious as an adult. However, I can't outright dislike the film because from a technical point of…

I think reducing Gone with the Wind's appeal to the dresses is pretty reductive. (I'm guessing you were joking! But many people aren't.) The story has a hell of a lot going for it—the way Scarlett manages to survive all the stuff she goes through (and all of the stuff she brings upon herself) is tremendously appealing…

Re: black influence on how the book differed from the movie- There was supposed to be a scene in which Prissy eats a water melon, but Butterfly McQueen refused. She also wouldn't let Vivian Leigh actually slap her, but the slap is still in the movie.

It's a little like watching a horror movie, I guess. All the main characters (except Melanie, anyway) are morally repugnant individuals, and it catches up with them. I definitely don't watch it and root for their success.

Jeez, does admission come with a pair of toothpicks to prop open your eyelids for that long?

I don't know about 75th anniversary celebrations, but the Castro Theatre is doing a double feature on Dec 28th of Gone with the Wind and Django Unchained.

You're vastly overgeneralizing my position; I certainly agree grooming standards for men can be sexist. I just don't think this one is. I'd agree with you if the grooming standard was something with strong gender-preserving overtones like "men can't grow their hair long." That's a grooming standard directed at men…

As someone who got a full ride to BYU and has heard the "yuppie-ism must be enforced!" argument a gajillion times ... look, I'm still a yuppie, even though I left the Church a year ago.

Just because I wear LOFT sweaters and faux pearls from Nordstrom and Sperry's doesn't make me a TBM.

Same goes with facial hair. Jesus…

As an actual BYU grad, I'll point out that beards, unlike booze, boinking, and booty shorts, aren't actually against the doctrine of the religion. Hence, the protest. Similar thing happened back in the '80s when women weren't allowed to wear pants. A woman came to the testing center in a long coat and pants. She got…

You are assuming these kids had a *choice* of where they were allowed to go...

A practical reason for the strict measures at BYU (beyond OMGOppression):
BYU is cheap. REALLY cheap, like under $5K a year cheap and the reason for this is that tuition and the university itself is funded by tithing. The Church-owned university system (which includes BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii, and LDS Business College) is…