Posted on 01/02/2020 12:05:24 PM PST by C19fan
Its a peculiar feature of our culture that men who behave in predictably masculine ways find themselves chastised and scolded for not being more feminine. This brings me to Little Women, which is not exactly packing in male ticket buyers. Why would it? No one expected women to turn up for Rambo: Last Blood, and no one seemed particularly interested in the male-female breakdown of the ticket sales for that one.
Yet op-ed writers keep pitching versions of the same strange thesis, which is that we should be cross with men for not buying tickets to Little Women. Dear men who are afraid to see Little Women: you can do this, says an op-ed in the Washington Post. I think the writer is here confusing the concept of fear with lack of interest or boredom. (I blanch at the prospect of going through my Aetna paperwork, but my guiding emotion is not fear.) For the love of Marmee, writes Monica Hesse of the WaPo, wont someone please organize a Meetup so these men can watch Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson go to the ball and lose their gloves? I am sorry to inform Ms. Hesse that the United States is a signatory to the Geneva Convention and hence no American man can be forced to submit to this variant of the Ludovico Technique from A Clockwork Orange.
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Actually, I only like the Kate Hepburn one and really hated the newish Brit version that was a T.V. series and didn't even watch all of it.
Yes, the book IS a classic and should still be read; as should other children's lit be still read, but isn't anymore, by most.
Used to be. I haven’t had cable for years and years.
Well if I saw a man by himself at Little Women, I would just assume he’s light in the loafers. Or a film critic. Same thing I suppose.
Guys being dragged on a date, that’s different.
I didnt see too many women lining up to see Rambo.
I read childrens literature! It can be wonderful. Im watching Adams Rib right now but thinking of Hepburns expostulation Christopher Columbus! from Little Women. George Cukor at his best.
Do you know the secret life of Hedy Lamarr? She was the electronics engineer who invented spread spectrum radio signaling. It was applied to guiding torpedoes.
My wife and I had a 600 mile drive yesterday. Rare for me but I got tired and let her drive for a short bit and she put in Pride and Prejudice. As I was falling asleep, I was forced to listen to some lady drone on about how young women needed a governess.
It was so bad it seemed like a Monte Python skit.
Similar situation.
It has some good bits.
The washed musician and drugs is favorite.
I went to see Little Women on Christmas to entertain a visiting female cousin. I hated the movie. It kept me awake. The theater has big, comfy reclining chairs too.
That is simply because of the poor judgement on the part of the Academy Awards judges. They are not solid thinkers.
After digging through your horseshitty pile of insults, it occurred to me that you are simply incapable of recognizing a joke.
My knowledge of the Victorian era easily has yours skinned a mile.
You sound very, very young, in my opinion.
;^)
Oh, now poetic license doesn’t suit you?
lol
After 45 years the female language and semantics gets still more difficult for me. Every statement formed as a question. Every question formed with its own pop quiz. Validation is one thing, but rubber stamp approval of things previously addressed... Angling for new leverage on a previous understanding or misunderstanding. I guess it's not really a problem just sometimes disconcerting.
LOL..."CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS"!
Not this chick!!
I’m all in for 1917. I actually like
war movies!
:)
My salad days are long behind me and I'll happy match my knowledge of the Victorian/Edwardian era with yours and beat you twelve days to Sunday, any time you care to REALLY take me on! And the test better include EVERYTHING and I do mean EVERYTHING ( lit. ALL forms of music, theatre, opera, operettas, all art trends, furniture, food, recipes, clothing, the lives of different classes, politics, departments stores/shopping, manners, customs, traditions, and more!) both here in the USA and in the UK!
That was no "joke" and saying it was, is a pathetic excuse.
Oh get a life and stop being silly.
My favorites maybe not yours - are the little Prairie books. Im now watching Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Unknown to the idiots here.
Pride and Prejudice is crap to you? And then we wonder why conservatism is marginalized in this country. We deserve it.
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