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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I see everything sooner or later. I just don’t go to the theaters. So I’ll see this sooner or later. Probably, later rather than sooner, since I’ve already seen other versions. It’s a sweet story, but I doubt there’s anything earthbreaking in the new version.
Reflection and deflection?
Being a guy, yes, it’s boring
THE WATER BABIES was, from the age of 9, onwards is one of my favorites, as are TREASURE ISLAND, and THE TARZAN series.
Oh TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE is a GREAT movie!
Did you watch REPEAT PERFORMANCE? If so, let me know in FRmail what you thought of it and Louis Hayward's performance in it.
Nope, you just aren’t worth more than what I wrote.
Yeah right. Boring. One of the bulwarks of western civilization bores you.
I got news for you conservative men: Jane Austin is no Louisa May Alcott.
Sorry, classic though it may be, it ain’t my thing
No I’m sorry I missed it. The little prairie books are spectacular reading.
Little wonder our side has lost the "culture wars", when so many here have that attitude.
Loved your short story.
Well, then - DON’T READ IT! Interesting ‘hot button’ you got there, LOL! :)
Are you not sane or just in a warped space/time loop?
Captain Marvel was released on February 27, 2019. All of the others you speak of predated it.
Our side threw the war. We didn’t lose it. Wading thru all those silly books written by girls and probable fruits. So very boring.
I wish we could find an alternative to fr.
What about “Little Men” Twan and Blaine?
I know that those books are well written; just not my cuppa.
SERIOUSLY?
I say not unknown. "We don't need no stinking badges!"
It had Walter Huston directed by his son, Anjelica's Daddy.
What’s your point? That you saw a commercial 20 years ago?
This is a movie about indigenous Mexican women?
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