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…

Yes. Thank you! I am neither #teamBhaer nor #teamLaurie for Jo, but I always think it is a tragedy when she lets Bhaer convince her that she should give up writing stories her way, and instead write them his way. It sucks.

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 AWESOME.

Seriously. The Marches/Alcotts were a lot of very good things (abolitionists!), but they also come across as just horribly self-righteous and self-important. You can hardly blame Amy for wanting to get away from her buzz-kill relatives every now and then.

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…

Team Amy all the way! I loved this piece. All Amy wanted was a few nice dresses, some pickled limes, and a different nose than the one she was born with. I have such a soft spot for Little Women, but the older I get the more I get annoyed with Alcott’s dismissal of Amy. Amy had a talent for friendship, something Jo…

I feel like I understand LW a lot better now, having learned a bit about Alcott. All of her disdain of feminine things, all of her euphoria over having some free time to write... I think a lot of it makes sense when you figure in the abject poverty her family lived in, how her father’s Thoreau-like philosophy landed…

I respect the Amys of the world for the same reason I respect the hell out of Kris Jenner and her daughters. Those women are hustlers. And people hate on them for using the mostly shitty tools our world allows them to erect better lives for themselves than most others’. Fuck that noise. Get your money (education,…

Wow that was a really lovely piece. My inner Amy felt it it in her heart. Now please go finish writing that book because I wanna read the shit out of it.

I haven’t watched it in many many years, but didn’t the Brenda character go from being a nice person to a miserable bitch. While Kelly’s arc was from mean girl to nice person?

Thank you, that was a delightful read. I didn’t realize Witherspoon was awful until she got that DUI and she do-you-know-who-I-am’d all over the place. I know Kevin Smith isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but he can tell a good story. If you haven’t seen it, his story about working for Prince is amazing.

I buy it because Kevin Smith (of all people) fondly worked with her (multiple times) and speaks highly of her and Eliza Dushku (also had some “problem” reports from set — not the Bull stuff, in case that’s unclear)... and absolutely has no problem shitting on Reese Witherspoon for years... he’s got absolutely no…

Yep! As a middle school victim of a ringleading mean girl who openly resented me because I got all my homework done AND knew all the words to the Top-40 radio songs, I know this is totally a thing.

When it was originally on the air I couldn’t stand her or Brian Austen Green, both as characters and actors. Lo and behold, who turned out to be the cringiest in real life?

I can totally see that. I don’t know about the others but Shannen Doherty had already been in the business for a LONG time by the time she was cast in 90210. She may be/may have been a bitch but she’s been in the business for long time. And, I daresay, she was probably the most talented of the crew.

Same reason everyone in the 4th grade hated me. I was better than all them bitches. 

I once read some interview with one of the show’s writers that said Doherty was the writing room’s favorite because she was a pro who would always inflect the line exactly as written, and that a lot of the cast hate for her was founded in petty jealousy for how good she was at her job. She had a photographic memory,…

Team Shannen (or Brenda, I guess) all day, every time. I’m rewatching the original and it just solidifies that I was right all along - Kelly was unbearable.