Is Jo Marsh in Little Women just a bull dyke-ling?

Jo Marsh?

Gives a whole new meaning to “drain the swamp.”

The term is baby dyke, OP

An ongoing thread already exists, stupid.

OP, have you not read the book? Jo is tom boyish and doesn't like girlish things, she'd prefer to be a boy, with a boy's freedom. She ends up marrying an old man and helping run a school for boys. Sublimation.

OP, the woman who actually write the book, Louisa May Alcott, based it on her own family. In her real life family, Meg and Beth were about the same, “Amy” died from childbirth complications after her first child, leaving a girl baby. Louisa raised the little girl herself, until she died herself after a stroke when the child was about eight.

If you read her book, she describes her father as this intellectual with his head in the clouds (unable to make a living) type guy. The truth is even worse. He opened some cultish hippie commune and it failed. They were broke, which is why the girls in the book were poor. They really were poor.

In the book, Jo marries. That’s the main fake part of the story. Louisa was a spinster who never wanted to marry. Recently I read something I’ve never heard before. She wrote a letter to a friend saying she’d never been in love with a man, and had only fallen for girls. She was so innocent, she didn’t even know what a lesbian was, or that they had affairs. As far as I know, she never acted in it, and just thought she was broken somehow.

She had to support her parents, like Jo in the book, writing trashy short stories about romance and horror. Eventually, she was encouraged to write Little Women, which was a big hit. There were a couple of sequels.

I think Amy did end up dying in a later book. Jo in the books opened a boarding school and her nieces and nephews attended it. I don’t think that really happened, but I think that was her way of writing in that she had her sister’s child living with her. Her sister’s child was really about all she had, she was stuck supporting her parents and didn’t have much else but the child. So naturally she wanted to include her. The later books were popular but not such classics, probably because a lot of them involved imaginary people or people that were already dead IRL. They’re interesting if you’ve already read Little Women, but more as a curiosity. They seem to be lacking the vibrancy of the original.

She seems to have lived a really sad, isolated life, constantly writing to support her family. I don’t think she had ever had much fun. She pretty much ended up the way Jo would have if she hadn’t married. The publisher wanted Jo married, I’m not sure she would have done it otherwise.

Jo March

They cut out the scissor sisters scene

Why do you say "just"?