Of Course Men Aren’t Interested in Little Women

Naitonal Review ^ | January 2, 2020 | Kyle Smith

[C19fan]

It’s a peculiar feature of our culture that men who behave in predictably masculine ways find themselves chastised and scolded for not being more feminine. This brings me to Little Women, which is not exactly packing in male ticket buyers. Why would it? No one expected women to turn up for Rambo: Last Blood, and no one seemed particularly interested in the male-female breakdown of the ticket sales for that one.

Yet op-ed writers keep pitching versions of the same strange thesis, which is that we should be cross with men for not buying tickets to Little Women. “Dear men who are afraid to see Little Women: you can do this,” says an op-ed in the Washington Post. I think the writer is here confusing the concept of fear with lack of interest or boredom. (I blanch at the prospect of going through my Aetna paperwork, but my guiding emotion is not fear.) “For the love of Marmee,” writes Monica Hesse of the WaPo, “won’t someone please organize a Meetup so these men can watch Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson go to the ball and lose their gloves?” I am sorry to inform Ms. Hesse that the United States is a signatory to the Geneva Convention and hence no American man can be forced to submit to this variant of the Ludovico Technique from A Clockwork Orange.

[C19fan]

What a weird time we live in when feminists are now complaining men are not interested in a period piece drama. That genre has always skewed heavily women. I must admit I enjoy period dramas especially British based from the Regency to Edwardian periods. Men are not afraid to see these movies they are not interested and there is nothing wrong with that. How many women are going to see the upcoming war movie "1917"? Should I scold women for ignoring a movie portraying the horrible sacrifices men have made on the battlefield to protect them?

[BenLurkin]

5 foot is about as short as I woukd consdier.

[gundog]

"Hold on there, Jack...."

[mmichaels1970]

“For the love of Marmee,” writes Monica Hesse of the WaPo, “won’t someone please organize a Meetup so these men can watch Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson go to the ball and lose their gloves?”

What the heck is she talking about....maybe if they lost their pants....

[miss marmelstein]

I liked Rambo!

But I don’t expect men to turn up at Little Women. That’s absurd.

[samtheman]

this variant of the Ludovico Technique from A Clockwork Orange
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LOL!

[stanne]

It’s not a period piece drama. It is a contemporary piece swiped from L M Alcott, replete
With contemporary feminist rants, weak, scarce men and a ridiculous back and forth chronology with four different times

It is vapid, humorless and boring. No man has any business sitting through this

We women had a hard enough time with it

[dfwgator]

[BBQToadRibs]

It’s like when Captain Marvel came out and The director said it wasn’t made for men. Then it flopped spectacularly. When asked why, “because men didn’t support it at the theater.”

Well, you pretty much said it wasn’t for us and cut us out. Duh.

[txnativegop]

due to my wife, I have seen the last version ?? of that movie round about 20 times, so much so I have the dialogue almost completely memorized.

Other than dutiful hubby’s, why would a single man go watch this movie? It is the ultimate chick flick.

[mmichaels1970]

Thanks for your summary. I know nothing about the book and don’t intend to know anything more about the movie.

[C19fan]

I think you are referring to feminist hack jobs like Lady Ghostbusters and the woke Charlie’s Angels. Women kicking arse in comic book movies have done quite well, Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman.

[ctdonath2]

Ludovico Technique:

[miss marmelstein]

I saw the Susan Sarandan version which was fine. The best will always be the Katherine Hepburn version but it’s just not a movie any man is going to enjoy.

[mmichaels1970]

I think you are referring to feminist hack jobs like Lady Ghostbusters

[Bubba_Leroy]

I think the writer is here confusing the concept of fear with lack of interest or boredom.

Liberals do that with many things.

For example, I am a flaming heterosexual (but a happily monogamous one for over 30 years). I have never been interested in hosexual sex and I find the concept of homosexual sodomy to be every bit as disgusting as animal sodomy. Many liberals would label me as a homophobe, even though I have no fear of homosexuals.

[ctdonath2]

He does mean Captain Marvel. Lead actress did openly dis men, and attendance - while profitable - wasn’t what it could/should have been.

[miss marmelstein]

Um, the men are scarce because it takes place during the Civil War, lol. The father is off fighting.

[HombreSecreto]

What a weird time we live in when feminists are now complaining men are not interested in a period piece drama...

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I was going to make a remark about “period piece,” but thought better of it.

[originalbuckeye]

One of my favorite ‘period dramas’ was called Austenland. It is a send up, with the heroine wanting so much to live during the Regency that she sells some of her worldly goods (her car) to go on a vacation to Austenland in Britain. It is an ‘experience the Regency period’ estate run by Jane Seymour and her overweight, sloth of a husband. It is quite funny. At least my British husband and I thought so. Give it a try : )