“man who liked women to conform to all the standard conventions of beauty while simultaneously believing that all the trappings of those standards were vapid and unworthy of a serious person’s notice.”

But the Winona version definitely made it all more palatable by giving her Gabriel Byrne as her old man. I mean, when I was 13 I definitely was like WTF over saying no to Christian Bale, but Byrne could definitely get it in the early 90s!

Excellent point! Alcott was very disparaging of her writing, calling it ‘sentimental drivel’ but she did it deliberately to avoid living in poverty and keeping her family (including her useless father) out of poverty

“She knew when she married him that she wasn’t going to end up living in a barn with a bunch of strange boys and a middle aged German telling her to give up her artistic aspirations.” r e t w e e t

But Amy didn’t “take” Laurie, Jo turned him down. Was Amy supposed to refuse him (and his wealth) because Jo didn’t want to marry him?

Katy Perry seems like the type of person who has alienated several gay friends for being too needy, and probably refers to a few people as “her Asians”

Considering that marriage was pretty much inescapable at the time once you got into it, I think Amy was also pretty smart for going with the devil she knew over the one she didn’t. Laurie might not be the brightest bulb, but he does genuinely love her family, seems willing to accept her criticisms of his character and…

I always found her to be a lot less hypocritical than her sisters, because let’s be honest, the ONLY reason they are able to act the way they do and not be total pariahs is that they are from a respectable (if now impoverished) family. If they were more firmly lower class, Jo running around with the boys wouldn’t be…

And truly, a talent for friendship is not to be underestimated. It makes life richer--especially important when your family is so insular and tightly-knit as the Marches. It also has the potential to open professional doors, something Jo didn’t appreciate until she lost out on the chance to go to Europe. 

This is so true! And Amy points out herself that she doesn’t see being able to perform good manners in the way rich people do as being incompatible with the moral underpinnings of all manners—namely, respect for other people and their comfort. She just thinks she should be able to have that AND a nice dress, and the…

Amy would be fine except she burned Jo’s manuscript. I would never have forgiven that little bitch. But the real trash is Marmee and the girls’ dad. You are too old to fight in a war sir come home and take care of your family so they don’t starve. And let Amy have a fucking orange on Christmas, Marmee. Ah, I feel…

I, too, have grown to appreciate Amy more and more as I get older. We are meant to feel bad for Jo when Amy gets to go to Paris- but honestly Jo had always been kind of nasty to her Aunt and just assumed that she would get to go to Europe anyway, despite her attitude. Amy is the only one with the good sense to keep on…

Can we all take a minute to acknowledge trailblazer Katy Perry for bisexualizing sexual harrassment? Another civil rights milestone!

“i kissed a girl, she disliked it” probably wouldn’t have been as big a hit

Mr. Rogers...

I had my own small Placido Domingo incident. When I had just gotten out of school, I worked the overnight shift at an expensive boutique hotel in midtown Manhattan. Late one evening, Domingo and his party (which included his wife) came to the hotel for dinner at the swanky restaurant, which stayed open late just to…

If this all sounds like an unrelentingly gloomy picture of the Olympic Games, well, it is.

Yeah, like when Bryan Singer was all like, “I don’t even have any idea who these guys are,” and we were all like, DON’T YOU SEE HOW THAT MAKES IT WORSE, YOU FUCK??

He probably doesn’t know specifically who the anonymous claimants are; evidently he’s behaved this way for decades, and for much of the last 25 years, he was running both the LA Opera and National Opera in DC - that’s thousands of potential victims.

I’ve seen him perform countless times and met him a few times. The thing is, this doesn’t surprise me at all; the god complex was always evident - because he is and has been treated like a god throughout the global world of opera. In Los Angeles, he IS the opera.