It seems to me that the law is accomplishing exactly what was intended. People can choose not to get vaccinated, but then they forfeit the privilege of attending school and playing sports with the rest of us. They are choosing their own semi-isolation from polite society.

Judaism is exactly as dumb and backwards as any other religion if you want to be dumb and backwards about it.

While most older women I’ve come across in business and elsewhere have been neutral to helpful, there are definitely some in the boomer and older demographic who resent no longer being the token female, the exceptional one, the cute, perky young thing making it in a man’s world. Their whole way of being is obsolete,…

I don’t believe that older women are worthless. I’ve never thought that.

That question still haunts me. He wasn’t ripped or anything, so it wasn’t about tempting me with his unsheathed pecs. 

Yep, I remember them getting more and more depressing (for me). I was definitely all about Jo as a child and then remember feeling deflated? defeated? when she got married, etc. I had actually forgotten that Amy got an art education and maybe pursued it. 

“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.”

Also- the Alcotts were sort of insane! I mean they were lots of good things - but they refused to eat root vegetables because they grew downwards (they only ate “aspiring” vegetables that grew towards the sun). The girls were also schooled in self denial as a virtue so I’ve always assumed that Amy is just rebelling…

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

Thank you! I always thought the ‘poverty’ of the family overblown.  They were poor, but still had servants, wealthy friends and a way to get to Europe if they played their cards right.  Not quite the same as another heroine of Civil War era novels who had to pick her own cotton and swear she’d never be hungry again. 

“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?

I’ve always admired Amy’s growth too. None of the other characters grow as much as Amy does. 

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 think the problem is in the Winona movie’s adaptation of her. We only get kinda shit Amy moments in the movie. It wasn’t until I saw the trailer to the new one that I understood Amy actually like, desired to be a painter as opposed to it was something that she was supposed to be doing as opposed to the “Excuse” for…

Why do you hate Jesus?

Thank you!!!  God I hated that book.  It was so.  freaking.  boring.  You know how some kids ask their parents if the world was in black and white before the 50s/60s?  I actually asked my mom if they had humor in the 19th Century because of this book.

Fun fact: neither the book or any of the smibillion film adaptations has made me feel: