“…my dear, let us be elegant or die.”
—Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (via sarabellumm)
May 2012
8 posts
Hi, I was wondering how you feel about the Amy/Laurie and Jo/Fritz relationships. It seems that a lot of people wanted Jo/Laurie to get together, and I just wanted to hear your opinion. :o)
I’ll field this one, given that I’m rather drunk at the moment.
Personally, while I don’t MIND the relationships such as they are, I don’t feel they’re strictly necessary to further the plot or the development of the characters (perhaps with the exception of Amy/Laurie as Laurie becomes more manful with Amy to keep him in gentlemanly line whereas Jo wouldn’t have given a fuck and let him run wild, and with the responsibilities given her as a wife and mother, Amy mellows the fuck out and grows the fuck up and I promise I’ll stop saying fuck now. Fuck.)
As for Jo and Fritz, that was LMA’s response to public demand that Jo end up with SOMEBODY because god forbid a woman never marry but at least she stuck Jo with an intellectual silver fox that kind of creeps most people out because SHE DEFIES YOUR ROMANTIC EXPECTATIONS OF LOVE BEING RESERVED FOR THE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL. If they wouldn’t let Jo be queer/asexual, at the very least LMA could insist Jo do something different and subversive.
“If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that's all that you really are."
— Marmie
FEMINIST FEELS
So I'm talking about Louisa May Alcott for my Women's History presentation, and I start to wonder...there are four March sisters in Little Women...and four Houses in Harry Potter...
Meg March - Ravenclaw
Jo March - Gryffindor
Beth March - Hufflepuff
Amy March - Slyterin
Louisa May Alcott: representing Harry Potter before it existed.
relevant
“Thoreau also wore a neck-beard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive.[20] However, Louisa May Alcott mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau’s facial hair “will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and preserve the man’s virtue in perpetuity.”[20]”
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(via antigone-spit)
LMA throwin’ some shade and tellin’ em to suck her alcott
