Jessie’s Reviews > Gone with the Wind > Status Update

To anyone justifying the racism that drips from this text; anyone calling it, "historically appropriate" for 1936 or, even, "indicative of the Civil War era" -- I point you to the wide spread abolitionism that already existed among real living people in the 1800s -- pre 1860s even! I'm talking about folks who were already generations ahead of 20th century MITCHELL, let alone her despicable 19th century protagonist.

AND it’s offensive that Margaret Mitchell uses this text to create some kind of case for Scarlett as feminist archetype. I reject the brand of patriarchal white feminism being served up here.