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Dear men who are afraid to see ‘Little Women’: You can do this.
Washington Post ^ | January 1, 2020 | Monica Hesse

Posted on 01/04/2020 5:43:15 PM PST by C19fan

To the men who love “Little Women”: Hello! You are not alone. There are many of you, and you have all been emailing me to confess, as if it were a shameful secret, your deep affection for a 150-year-old story about four girls growing up in Civil War-era Massachusetts, making currant jam and accidentally burning their dresses in the fireplace.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2020election; districtofcolumbia; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; drama; election2020; feminism; jeffbezos; mediawingofthednc; monicahesse; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: C19fan

I’m not afraid of seeing it. I just don’t care. It clearly wasn’t written for people like me, I’ll go see movies that were.


41 posted on 01/04/2020 6:20:51 PM PST by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Probably make a good series.


42 posted on 01/04/2020 6:22:37 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Buttons12

Read it as a kid. I liked the historical aspects.


43 posted on 01/04/2020 6:23:19 PM PST by lizma2
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To: momincombatboots

My Mother in law, wife and daughter went to see this.

They all hated it.

Disclaimer - my mother in law is died in thd wool Massachusetts liberal Democrat.


44 posted on 01/04/2020 6:23:39 PM PST by CTyank
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To: Chickensoup

There was a recent series of War and Peace I believe produced by the BBC. Natasha was played by Lily James.


45 posted on 01/04/2020 6:25:41 PM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Why would I go see any of the Crap Hollywierd puts out?


46 posted on 01/04/2020 6:26:05 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: EEGator

“Men who love “Little Women”?”

There is no such thing.


47 posted on 01/04/2020 6:26:11 PM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: C19fan

Dear Monica. I read that book 45+ years ago.

And, no, I have no interest in seeing it.


48 posted on 01/04/2020 6:26:22 PM PST by sauropod (Hold onto that impeachment for a while. It'll get better with age, just like Jennifer Rubin has.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
The book was dull as dishwater, and I seriously doubt the movie is any better.

Little historical footnote to this. Louisa May Alcott did some promotional work after the book came out, traveling, speaking, stuff like that. Coming from a family mired in genteel poverty, she only had one dress appropriate to such occasions. Women, being the kindler, gentler sex, were soon criticizing her for her lack of wardrobe, causing her some distress. Men, the brutes, couldn't have cared less about what she wore.

49 posted on 01/04/2020 6:27:55 PM PST by Robwin (very)
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To: Sapwolf

Maybe some non binary persons...


50 posted on 01/04/2020 6:28:59 PM PST by EEGator
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To: C19fan

“afraid to”...?

Since when is not caring to see what looks like an incredible snooze-fest a sign of fear?


51 posted on 01/04/2020 6:29:41 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: libstripper

***“Little Women” and all of the George Elliot drek were the leading non-sellers.**

These are the type of books they forced on us in High School. I HATED them. I was into action and adventure books such as Beau Geste trilogy, Beat to Quarters trilogy, Manila Galleon, The Iliad, Odyssey, Captain Blood trilogy. H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne and such.

Even today I love to read but have an aversion to horrid English novels.

Just finished War and Peace, getting ready to read Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars and the collected works of Ambrose Bierce.


52 posted on 01/04/2020 6:29:58 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: C19fan

Read it many years ago. Thanked God I was born a male.


53 posted on 01/04/2020 6:30:56 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: C19fan

Watch “Little Women”? Not while “Wonder Woman” is out there.

She has a spell on me. :-)


54 posted on 01/04/2020 6:31:25 PM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: C19fan

Did Monica watch “Anna”?
I did yesterday, same day my wife & daughter saw “Little Women”.
If Monica afraid to see “Anna”?


55 posted on 01/04/2020 6:33:48 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Democrats oppose democracy.)
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To: C19fan
Dear men who are afraid to see ‘Little Women’: You can do this.

Who's she talking to ? Joe Biden?

56 posted on 01/04/2020 6:37:00 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: goldstategop

I’ve had no interest in seeing the movie.

I read the book when I was a kid, and was enthralled. It was one of those books that one reads when young, and hates for it to end, because you’ve become enamored of the characters and didn’t want to leave them.

The next book I read that made me feel the same way was ‘Gone With the Wind’.

But the only childhood books that I remember and really want to RE-read, are the ‘Mushroom Planet’ books by Eleanor Cameron:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Flight_to_the_Mushroom_Planet

https://peyre.x10.mx/MushroomPlanet/index.htm


57 posted on 01/04/2020 6:38:56 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“The Russian movie version of 1966 follows the book very well, but still had to leave out lots as the movie is 8 hours, and if they had filmed the entire book it would have been 80 hours.”

That’s why I love the miniseries. It’s the only way you can do justice to many books.


58 posted on 01/04/2020 6:44:20 PM PST by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: C19fan
Oh, I don't know. Maybe I could get into it...


59 posted on 01/04/2020 7:01:05 PM PST by moovova
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To: DannyTN
So I’d be willing to take a plump girl if she had her head right.

And if she was positioned properly. Pigs are such men LOL.

Back to the original subject at hand. The lefty fems always accuse us of being "afraid" if we don't pander to their tripe. Men are not allowed a difference in taste because that's proof we are bigoted and afraid.

Honestly, they just think (think? LOL they certainly don't reason) that a pecker is proof of a genetic defect. I really think that it's not at all complicated. Feminists (there's an oxymoron for ya) simply are consumed with an illogical antipathy for the male sex. NOT "gender". Words have gender, people have a sex - only one of two.

60 posted on 01/04/2020 7:05:52 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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