[ SECRET POST #4042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4042 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins]


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03.
[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]


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04.
[Mickey Rourke (and Kim Basinger even though the secret's not about her)]


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05.
[Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero]


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06.
[Welcome to the Ballroom]


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07.
[Crazy Ex Girlfriend]











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Comments

[fscom]

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[Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins]

[nocowardsoul]

Agreed. I also hate the chapter in the sequel where he convinces her to put down the book.

The similar scene in Moods is worse because what's-his-name isn't even Sylvia's father figure, he's just an older dude telling her not to read some book without engaging in a discussion about its qualities.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, yes, I remember. The oh so dangerous French novel and the perils of light reading!

[(Anonymous)]

But doesn't it also have something to do with a pre-antibiotic era in which doing something that could cause a potentially fatal infection is more than just girlish vanity? There's the risk, particularly to a girl of delicate health like Rose (and by extension to a readership of potentially delicate girls) of becoming seriously ill.

[(Anonymous)]

No... that's absolutely not one of the reasons for the objection. "Death by ear piercing" was not a major concern of the era. Alcott just didn't like them.

[(Anonymous)]

Er, no. Rose's mother had pierced ears. Her similarly aged acquaintance ( a proper girl from a good family) has pierced ears. It's not considered a dangerous risk in that context, it's just Rose's uncle and cousins who are inflating the "danger". The book also makes it very clear that infection and illness is not their concern at all - it's that they regard it as a sign of female vanity and weakness.

[ceebeegee]

LMA's messages were VERY puritanical, which is why I really didn't take to most of her books that I read. An Old-Fashioned Girl shames one of the main characters for *flirting,* of all things! There's this tirade about "not taking love seriously" and being shallow and it's just ridiculous. There's a lot of that shit in Little Women too--Meg is made to feel like she's a materialistic asshole for wanting nice clothes. when she is a member of a class that *requires* them, through no fault of her own (their dad lost all the money) has been suddenly denied the funds to wear them and cannot earn money on her own. Anything other than pious selflessness is seen as unworthy which is why I always kind of liked Amy. She was materialistic and owned it.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I didn't notice as much when I was a kid. Those incidents just seemed weird and I didn't really understand why people were throwing a fit over such trivial things. As an adult, Alcott comes off as very preachy at times and her hang ups are a lot more conspicuous.

[(Anonymous)]

Louisa May Alcott was kind of plain to look at and didn't much care for fashion. Her hobbies included running and trying to get women to vote, and had no sexual interest in men. She received a lot of criticism from her peers about being unladylike. Honestly, I think some of this is just what "not like the other girls" looked like in the late 1800s.

[tree_and_leaf]

Doesn't Uncle Alec end up buying her earrings, though?