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Of Course Men Aren’t Interested in Little Women
Naitonal Review ^ | January 2, 2020 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 01/02/2020 12:05:24 PM PST by C19fan

It’s 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, “won’t 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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TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2020election; districtofcolumbia; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; feminism; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; itjustsucks; jeffbezos; literature; littlewomen; louisamayalcott; mediawingofthednc; monicahesse; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: miss marmelstein
Oh good, I HATE that version too; it's terribly miscast!

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.

101 posted on 01/02/2020 2:25:23 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Calvin Locke

Used to be. I haven’t had cable for years and years.


102 posted on 01/02/2020 2:32:22 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: C19fan

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.


103 posted on 01/02/2020 2:33:23 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: C19fan

I didnt see too many women lining up to see Rambo.


104 posted on 01/02/2020 2:40:28 PM PST by Snook79 ( A small)
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To: nopardons

I read children’s literature! It can be wonderful. I’m watching Adam’s Rib right now but thinking of Hepburn’s expostulation “Christopher Columbus!” from Little Women. George Cukor at his best.


105 posted on 01/02/2020 2:44:24 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: HombreSecreto

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.


106 posted on 01/02/2020 2:44:32 PM PST by GingisK
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To: C19fan

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.


107 posted on 01/02/2020 2:49:17 PM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: StolarStorm

Similar situation.

It has some good bits.

The washed musician and drugs is favorite.


108 posted on 01/02/2020 2:51:11 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: C19fan

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.


109 posted on 01/02/2020 2:51:59 PM PST by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: SkyPilot

That is simply because of the poor judgement on the part of the Academy Awards judges. They are not solid thinkers.


110 posted on 01/02/2020 2:58:44 PM PST by GingisK
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To: nopardons

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.

;^)


111 posted on 01/02/2020 2:59:10 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: nopardons

Oh, now poetic license doesn’t suit you?


112 posted on 01/02/2020 2:59:49 PM PST by GingisK
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To: dfwgator

lol


113 posted on 01/02/2020 3:05:10 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Seruzawa
Most actual men are aware that many (not all) of the ladies are emotionally insecure to some degree and need a lot of validation. We are generally willing to do this and understand that its part of life. We love our ladies and do all we can to support them.

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.

114 posted on 01/02/2020 3:06:51 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: miss marmelstein
I have ALWAYS loved children's lit; never outgrew it. The Victorian/Edwardian and early 20th century "classics" have great plots, are filled with vocabulary words that today's college students don't know/can't use, and it's criminal that kids are not reading this stuff anymore.

LOL..."CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS"!

115 posted on 01/02/2020 3:09:09 PM PST by nopardons
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To: C19fan

Not this chick!!
I’m all in for 1917. I actually like
war movies!
:)


116 posted on 01/02/2020 3:12:07 PM PST by DeplorableGirl
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To: elcid1970
Tsk, tsk, tsk, little snowflake!

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.

117 posted on 01/02/2020 3:16:27 PM PST by nopardons
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To: GingisK

Oh get a life and stop being silly.


118 posted on 01/02/2020 3:17:20 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

My favorites maybe not yours - are the little Prairie books. I’m now watching Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Unknown to the idiots here.


119 posted on 01/02/2020 3:19:55 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: cyclotic

Pride and Prejudice is crap to you? And then we wonder why conservatism is marginalized in this country. We deserve it.


120 posted on 01/02/2020 3:24:37 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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