Woke Critics Express Outrage That Men Stay Away from Little Women
Actually, the reasons that men (and a fair number of women like myself) don t share in the widespread euphoria over the film couldn t be more mundane. For one thing, the movie is based on a children s book to be precise, a book for girls. Thomas Niles, Alcott s editor at Roberts Brothers, asked her to write a girls book. And that s exactly what she set out to do. She wasn t keen on the idea, but she needed the money. I plod away, though I don t enjoy this kind of thing, she complained in her diary in the spring of 1868. Never liked girls; never knew many besides my sisters. When Niles reported to Alcott that his niece had found the early pages enthralling, Alcott, who remained unenthusiastic about the project, conceded: As it is for them, they are the best critics. No surprise, then, that grown men aren t crowding theaters to see the latest movie version of a nineteenth-century girls book.
Actually I saw Little Women and thought it was fabulous.
Just kidding.