@Invidia said:

Try reading it and you'll get a much better idea of what SCARLETT was going through by wearing one of them as a way to attract men.

Oh, I know perfectly well what social style is. Again, I say to you they only did it because they wanted to. It was not a law or expected. There were plenty of women with brains that did not bend to the social pressures. Plenty of women back then did not wear corsets and got married very easily and had lots of babies.

But imagine someone from that ERA reading about how we do strange things like having our faces injected with POISON (BOTOX) as a way to try to look younger, and have SURGERY to have devices placed into our BREASTS to make them look larger, etc. They'd probably think we're just as NUTS as we think they were for doing what they did.

It is just as nuts and stupid. At least women who's profession is to be on TV have financial reasons for doing it. Not that it makes it any saner but at least they are not doing it for simply vain reasons. Like the Kardashians are really sick individuals. The youngest one completely transformed herself. They all belong in an asylum especially the mother.

First of all. No one put a gun to Scarlett's head and said she must starve herself and have an 18 inch waist. If she put her foot down and said, "fuggit, I'mma eat what I want. Mammy, bring me some biscuits!" Ain't no one gonna stop her!

Again, this is where her DETERMINATION comes into play.

You call it determination I called it stuobborness. No one said she had to do it. People just need to take a step back sometimes and look at themselves to see what complete idiots they are being.

She knew if she didn't keep her waist small enough she wouldn't be able to attract the kind of husband that she needed to maintain her lifestyle.

Wrong. Scarlett was very pretty. She didn't need a corset to attract a wealthy man.

Trying to tell me there wasn't any heavy women in those days? Please! This is like crying a river for the poor Hollywood women who just have to get plastic surgery to stay relevant and working. No one forced you and you don't have to do it.

HEAVY WOMEN wouldn't be chosen by the kind of MEN who had the MOST MONEY and PROPERTY.

Money doesn't buy happiness. Better to attract a man who likes you for you and not your looks and not because he has money.

This is not like in those Muslim theocracies where women are forced to cover themselves from head to toe on pain of punishment. Now THAT is real discrimination.

Doesn't that also mean NUNS who once also wore the same kind of CLOTHING would also have been DISCRIMINATED against???

Nuns? I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Or worse yet, a women can be raped and unless she has witnesses then her testimony is not enough to convict. Now that is a REAL tragedy. BOO HOO , poor Scarlett can't have that extra biscuit because it makes it harder for her to squeeze into her gazillion dollar dress! Oh the humanity!

What about the case where the CHILD MOLESTER in FLORIDA ran a PROSTITUTION RING where he also RAPED SEVERAL 14 year old girls and GOT AWAY with it even though there were also plenty of PROOF and WITNESSES that testified against him???

Yes Jeffery Epstein, that piece of shit. It goes to show that if you have enough money there is no justice for you. And also Trump, Clinton, and Dershowitz had also rode on the "lolita express" which was the plane they used to bang these little girls. This is another reason I had no respect for Hillary Clinton. How could you stay married to such a POS? That woman cares more about fame, power, and money that self-respect.

@Invidia said:

You seem to forget about how prior to WW1 MORE WOMEN DIED in CHILDBIRTH than men did IN BATTLES.

GIVING BIRTH was and still is a VERY DANGEROUS process where all kinds of things can go WRONG.

I found a cat that had a KITTEN stuck that wouldn't come out. The poor cat died, even though the vet gave it something so that it could expel the kitten.

Still another cat had given birth to so many kittens that it's UTERUS EXPLODED and was wrapped around the rest of it's organs.

There's NOTHING NATURAL about it MN.

It's more like having an ALIEN inside of you (like in the movie).

The point is even with a MEDICAL DEGREE (whether for HUMANS or for ANIMALS) things still GO WRONG.

And anyone who tires to do it ALONE without any MEDICAL help is also tempting FATE and RISKING both the life of themselves and the INFANT.

What PRISSY did was WRONG.

She should NEVER have PRETENDED to know what she was doing when she did not know anything about giving birth.

Don't take my word for it, look it up. There are modern day midwives that have no medical degree. Some women refuse to use hospitals for whatever reason.

I was getting a bunch of email notifications about his topic and logged in assuming we'd get a discussion about the film but instead everyone's just arguing about corsets.