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i can’t deny that part of me was looking for any signs of subversion in mitchell’s writing about the “lost cause” of the confederacy, especially with scarlett’s indifference to it all. but she’s ignorant, and i would be ignorant to think her better. this book no doubt romanticises colonialism and slavery to a very deep degree. don’t wanna make conclusions before im even a quarter in but-
— Jan 25, 2024 03:11AM
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renee
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yea this book is definitely, without a doubt, openly and completely racist. obvious from the first page but i underestimated just how deep-rooted it was. it’s the whole, very dangerous package of the lost cause, with complete denial of abuse, and literally NO criticisms of slavery as a concept AT ALL.
— Feb 03, 2024 10:01AM
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“Women knew that a land where men were content, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So from cradle to grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men payed lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.”
— Jan 24, 2024 04:15AM
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Jan 25, 2024 03:20AM
i guess what i’m surprised by thus far is the lucid admittance and ridicule of southern arrogance and idealism. i love mitchell’s way of weaving in the background in that it so underscores scarlett’s psyche, yet she gives zero shits about the war. the way the confederate dream crumbles in the first part as scarlett’s world also begins to crack and split open with rhett butler’s arrival. the optimist in me holds onto the hope that gone with the wind is a criticism of today’s american psyche (which is butler and in some way scarlett and they both suck) which is neither union nor confederate but dangerously neoliberal
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