Re: [Marxism] Gone With the Wind

[steve heeren <tzsche@xxxxxxx>]

i know you don't like psychoanalysis, louis, but the scene you describe is
loaded with sexual innuendo. As a matter of curiosity, just what shape is
the fan used by the male slave? Does it consist of a shaft of some kind
which balloons out at the end?

since scarlett seems to be anywhere from 11 to her early 20's (when our
sexuality blooms for the second time), i wouldn't leap to any conclusion
about "kindergarten children."

your main point is probably true, though i haven't  seen it.

steve heeren


----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 5:37 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Gone With the Wind


| Out of morbid curiosity, I began watching this racist classic on the
Turner
| Classic Movies channel. I haven't seen it in maybe 40 years. Now everybody
| knows about the pro-slavery aspect of the film. What also deserves some
| comment is the infantilization of women that I really find shocking after
| the feminist changes that have taken place in American society. Scarlett
| O'Hara is basically treated like an 11 year old, even though the character
| must be in her late teens or early 20s when the film begins. At one point,
| she is ordered to take a nap in the afternoon with a bunch of other
belles.
| In a big room, all these women lie on mattresses side by side as a young
| male slave fans them. This is obviously an image that you associate with
| kindergarten children, not adults. There is something really obscene and
| vile and sick about this movie. If I get the chance, I might dig into its
| history this week. How in the hell does Hollywood make a movie like this
in
| 1939 when the New Deal is in its ascendancy?
|
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