Men and Jane Austen

[olde_fashioned]

I know that most men abhor Jane Austen, and that precious few are able to appreciate her. Someone kindly informed me of this article, and I'm linking it here for your amusment.

I’m way too masculine to enjoy Jane Austen

I'm still trying to figure out which is more hilarious -- the article itself, or the various comments. Check out Comment #7:


My wife recently cajoled me into watching Pride and Prejudice with her.

What utter agony. This was the BBC produced version, you know, the one that is like 36 hours long?

I was amazed as I watched her laugh and weep at this silly movie ( I wept too, but only out of self-pity). Nothing better reveals the differences between man and woman than this movie. She was entranced and enthralled- I was bored and listless.

Only after this experience was complete did I learn that there is a Hollywood version of the film which inflicts the entire torture in less than two hours.


Oh, and one very clever woman posted this:

Austin: capital of Texas

Austen: surname of Jane

Thank you

I think that is just so wickedly funny I just had to make an icon out of it because it drives me up the wall when people misspell her name.



Yes. I know. I'm bad.

Comments

[sabrinafair2.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a pet peeve I have when people misspell her name! I want to shout it's AustEn...any way I think the guy did have some valid points. I love all of Jane Austen's works, but they do tend to fall in a similar pattern. I also think that some women tend to see getting married as their *one* purpose in their life and in their dreams and wishes it would always end as one of JA's novels.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Me too, me too!

Similar pattern? Most love stories could be boiled down to the same basic plot. Even North & South has been called a Victorian P&P. I think it's rather a lack of imagination. ;-)

I would like very much to get married and have a family someday.