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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Yes, he is; dear George.
You too; snowflake.
Oh, the remake. Well that one and the 1936 one, starring Randolph Scott are good. The book is even better.
I’ve read the book too. Though I never saw the 1936 version.
Some great works may appeal more to one than others, but to simply lump ALL "classics" into one box named "BORING" is patently ridiculous in the extreme!
Even some great works are illustrated, though I doubt that you'd be able to make it through even one page of MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, though it's illustrated with paintings by Salvatore Dali.
A snowflake is someone who is easily angered or provoked, and that’s you in spades, sunshine.
Since you’re determined to get the last word, I have nothing more to say.
Only that there should be a comma after “You too”.
;^)
TCM shows the 1936 and the 1992 films every now and again.
You obviously don’t understand what “snowflake” means, today; though you are one.
I like it too.
It has comedy and silliness to be an everyone movie.
The Iliad has a surprising amount of violence in it. It is about a war but even so.
Little Woman was the book that raised me. Now I find that I am almost in Great Aunt March territory after going through Amy , Beth, Jo, Meg, and Marmee,
Lovely book.
I cannot look at anything by cooper after reading mark twains critique Read it Funny.
http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html
actually dad is a minister and down in Washingto ministering to the wounded.
Put you right to sleep... good.
Kept her awake and entertained... good.
It was given to me by my beloved Grandmother when I was 7. We could not be together for a number of years and it was her letter to me.
I read it often.
“actually dad is a minister and down in Washingto ministering to the wounded.”
Whatever he did or was the film made nothing of his contribution to the home, the family or the community
She may has well have been a single mother
My husband has spent years away from the family as an AF pilot He’s part
Of this family
The father in that depiction of the story which is a lot about the father and how they miss him and are Unfortunate because he has to be away, is not any significant part of the story.
The idea was that single mothers and their kids could live just fine
Leatherstocking Tales by Hawthorne? Any shred of credibility you might have had has now vanished.
Men and women are different with regard to maters of taste, particularly with respect to literature, movies, and hobbies. I bet you never got to view an explosion up close when you were young. They usually hurt, but sometimes fail to serve as a learning experience. ;-D
No in the book he was an often talked about part of the household when he was away and the wise counselor when he was home. But the book centers on the girls and their trials growing up ... mostly woman stuff. Beauxs and weddings and birthin’ babies. So sometimes he is in the background. But when the beaus showed up, father weighed in with a deciding vote.
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