I was a voracious reader when I was younger. I tried and tried with that book and just could not get into it. Maybe I’ll try the movie.
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This version was fairly spiffy. Admittedly, I can’t compare it to the book, and know only one other version, the 1949 with June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor.
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plus, there’s the Gerwig film
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It’s not just you two; I was about 12 when I read it, and I was very underwhelmed.
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At least with it being at the South Pole it’ll still be good (if maybe a little freezer burned) when they get there.
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Wouldn’t that be an epic love story.
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The second version is prettier, but not better. I mean, it’s got June Allyson in it, after all; however, kudos to Margaret O’Brien’s portrayal of Beth.
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I would be leading a band right now if these ladies had been well-known; heck, who KNOWS how many of us would’ve entered music because of them?
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Ye gods this is depressing.
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A good reminder that the patriarchy harms men, too.
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It squicked me out especially because you can see the cycle starting as you read the article.
I wondered what these young men would be like 10, 20 years from now, and on.
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Intersectionality matters. Part of why this is happening to this young lady is because of her skin color. She took matters into her own hands, because the system would do nothing to help her and others young girls and young women, and she will be punished for opposing the system.
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… CDPH interviewed the patient’s family and learned that the patient was a long-term user of skin lightening creams obtained from Mexico (applied to the face twice daily for the past 7 years); the cream was analyzed and found to contain 12,000 ppm mercury. …
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The skin-tone industry has to be one of the most tone-deaf things going.
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Seriously, we have 50 billion swashbucklers about men. Where is her movie?
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OMG, I so would watch the hell out of such a movie…
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