So...random stuff.

[badboy_fangirl]

[+] I like to go to tumblr and put in my favorite tags and just scroll...so I put in "Bethyl" which is the name squish for The Walking Dead characters Beth and Daryl, and this picture came up:

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[badboy_fangirl]

See, it's always bothered me how they "watered" down Rhett for the movie. I like how black-hearted he is. But I tend to like my black-hearted heroes, whose only redeeming quality is their love of a good woman. Of course, Scarlett wasn't necessarily a good woman, so...

So in my opinion, you can argue that he was being abusive, a brute and all that, but I think calling it “rape” is taking it way too far.
That's my initial reaction, too, now that I'm thinking of it more in depth, but I also think the movie scene is less clear, but when I was watching the movie, it was with having already read the book, so I knew what Scarlett's mindset was so it didn't bother me.

[badboy_fangirl]

Rhett has extra redeeming qualities. He buys Melanie's ring back for her, and he saves Ashley from the KKK, and he takes care of Belle's boy.

He just has no romanticism about the South or the Cause or Scarlett. He sees them all for what they are and he will tell you to your face.

See, now I want to write an essay about why Rhett Butler is awesome...

ovie make it pretty clear that SHE didn't feel like it was rape and that's the key piece of evidence for me.
Yes, but in my old age, I've gotten more interested in what message literature sends even if that's not what they meant. Like, the Twilight books. Don't even get me started. LOL. But I love GWTW and I can never see that scene as rape, though I do understand now why others would see it that way.

[upupa_epops]

I'm sorry to butt in, but I need to ask: what does love have to do with anything here? I mean, it's possible to rape someone you love, and it's most definitely possible to be raped by someone you love.

[badboy_fangirl]

I agree with your commentary on this particular situation, but I disagree with your idea that someone who loves someone else can't hurt them in such a horrific way, and this is why: broken people love brokenly. I think for both you and I (I'm making assumptions based on our shared values and other things you've told me about yourself), it's unfathomable that we could ever be with someone who would violate us in this way, and certainly we would never stay with someone who did so. On the other hand, though, there are terribly dysfunctional relationships between people who love to the best of their ability, but it's all wrong, for various reasons. Now to describe it as "love" or "not love" is semantics, but to try to pigeon hole people in their own version of love? It's impossible, because as you say
Now, if I heard about such a situation in RL I wouldn't dare to judge it either way, because I wouldn't be able to tell what people involved were really feeling.We can't possibly understand that because we've never (thankfully) experienced