#while Dostoyevsky's characters scream murder rape each other and commit suicide in the bg
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Appreciation of little women's genuinely feminist messaging for its time and place of writing vs disgust at the all too obvious lingering sexist undertones vs wanting jo to be the queer icon she was meant to be vs understanding her desire to be able to fall on love without having her independence questioned vs knowledge that her marrying was certainly motivated by the expectations of a sexist audience vs wanting her and Laurie to end up together because you want to see couples who are actual friends and also you want Jo to be with someone who unapologetically likes her gender nonconformity and independence vs appreciating the inclusion of a plotline where a woman refuses a man and isn't demonised for it vs acknowledging the truthfulness of Jo's claim that people who make good friends won't necessarily make good life partners vs agreeing with the moral that childhood must end and change must be accepted vs hating the way every girl's process of maturing conveniently brings her closer to the motherly American housewife ideal vs i love stories where authors aren't coy about their beliefs vs this particular story is so blatant and pushy with its messaging it almost feels insulting vs the messaging itself is a mixed bag vs it's especially frustrating to see the writer vicariously pat herself on the back for writing something neither overly preachy nor amorally sensational vs oh my god this book is so obnoxiously christian. Fight
#little women#s#ok but genuinely the simultaneous desire for jo to#1. be the aro or lesbian icon i know she can be and end up happily single#2. have that childhood friends to lovers shit i love with laurie#(and btw i thought they were adorable since that scene where he was sick. THAT WAS SO DAMN CUTE)#(and double btw there's a world in my heart where jo is transmasc and laurie loves her as such)#3. be able to express her loneliness WHILE asserting the validity and value of singlehood#4. end up with her chosen man despite his unglamorousness... i guess.....#5. not end up with someone twice her age who's framed as her moral and literal TEACHER ugh ew bleh#more than anything... reading this in the middle of a 19th century ruslit marathon really brings the preachiness into sharp contrast#yknow.#and the idealised wholesome characters that too#mama march be out here assuring her daughters that if they pray hard enough they can repent for even the gravest of sins: complaining#while Dostoyevsky's characters scream murder rape each other and commit suicide in the bg
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