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Discussion between book blogger Emily Lau and little women podcaster Niina Niskanen. Emily: Hello my name is Emily and this is my channel Emiloid. I mostly talk about books on here and I do video essays and Niina why don´t you talk about yourself.

It’s International Women’s Day. A day that was founded in the early 1900’s, believe it or not. The day has ties to the labor movement, suffrage movement, and early protests and mobilizations for women’s rights to equality in citizenship, the economy, and basic rights. It seems that a lot of really good things kicked off in the early 1900’s as reaction to the newness of industrialization and the rampant inequality of early capitalism. Folks had a lot more awareness of what should and should not be, and they did their best to make changes where they could. It is 2022 and women are still not equal - in rights, in opportunities, in access to economic prosperity, in health, in safety, in respect.

I suppose you could argue that Laurie growing up wealthy is partly what contributed to him not valuing work. He never had to worry about not having things or not being able to afford what he wanted. In that regard, his exposure to the Marches, and the March sisters, in particular, was fortuitous because they helped to enlighten him.

Discussion between Little Women bloggers Niina Niskanen and Christina Scott. Niina: The whole story about Laddie (Wisniewski) I think is one of the reasons why Louisa liked to hang out with him...it´s almost like she always wanted to have somebody there that she could take care of. Was it her sister or when she worked in the war as a nurse and then there was Laddie and she took care of him because he had tuberculosis? You can see that Louisa always had this very maternal side that she liked to take care of people like her parents, later on and Jo is very much the same and we just recently talked about this with some fans on discord that in the 1994 film you can see this maternal side of Jo and then in the 1949 film. I like that when people add that dimension of her to the films because it is a big part of her. That she is this maternal character. People always complain "Oh Friedrich is so paternal, the fatherly figure" ...well, Jo is very maternal in the book. Of course, she would like to be with somebody who is a fatherly character and loves children as much as Jo does.