Little Women Has Produced the Perfect Meme For All the Things Everyone Simply Can't Do
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is once again the talk of Twitter, and on this occasion because it has produced a very good meme for expressing, well, the postmodern mess that is doing stuff — or not doing stuff, specifically, because you just can’t. Given its universal appeal, the meme has spread far and wide across Twitter, with speed comparable to that tragic scarlet fever outbreak in the original novel.
In the critical darling of a film, a modern adaptation of the 1868 Louisa May Alcott classic, passionate aspiring author Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) delivers a performance that scored her an Oscar nod. Case in point: this intense moment showcasing her essentially cutting local heartthrob Laurie (Timothée Chalamet) out of her life like yesterday’s bonnet. (Spoiler alert: he says he wants to marry her, to which she essentially says “bye.” And she rejects his proposal for marriage because she values her liberty too much.)
We have to be able to laugh at the hard times, after all. And in that spirit, Twitter users have been captioning a clip of the rejection to make the case that try as they might, they simply can’t, say, stop Instagram stalking that ex, write a sentence without an em dash or fill the dishwasher before going to bed because there’s just too many (three) dirty dishes in the sink. Try as you might to escape the memes, you simply can’t do that either. There’s just so much we’re incapable of doing too, Jo March.
Watching prequels, abstaining from em dashes or Twitter, or frying a sunny side up egg. What do they have in common? They’re all impossible things.
Enjoy the best Little Women can’t memes below.
When other academics tell me to use citation management software:pic.twitter.com/Tq4hybeAEC
— Katie Kaufman Rogers (@katie_k_rogers) February 19, 2020
My writers when I ask them to use fewer em dashes. pic.twitter.com/vgQiPVotut
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 19, 2020
“Why don’t you just delete twitter?” pic.twitter.com/gIBaRMn7I7
— Dave Jorgenson 🥛 (@davejorgenson) February 17, 2020
Me trying to sleep past 8am on a weekend pic.twitter.com/ursqaPXz0N
— Nicole Gallucci (@nicolemichele5) February 17, 2020
me when someone suggests i simply take coffee cups out of my car when i’m done drinking them instead of letting my car become a giant trash can
pic.twitter.com/eQJ8iHKPoe— Dana Donnelly (@danadonly) February 17, 2020
When people ask me to write a song without the lyric “She said...”
pic.twitter.com/gB05mJAPPL— Ḿå℟₭ (@markhoppus) February 17, 2020
me trying to think of other adverbs besides “literally” pic.twitter.com/81jUWsMm8U
— bella (@cerseironan) February 17, 2020
me, trying to fry a sunny side up https://t.co/1ihWWIa2fc
— Camille Castillo (@cccamilleamanda) February 18, 2020
"but if you watch the prequels now, forget about the hype from when they were released and don't compare them to the originals, you'll see they're just fun adventure movi-"
me:https://t.co/i2yuvkvin3— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 18, 2020
Things even got very meta, because they could. Even though they can’t:
When someone tells me to stop liking memes with this Little Women video since I hated the movie. pic.twitter.com/pAtxjcS9VZ
— Ashley T. (@ALTibbits) February 17, 2020
martin scorsese attempting to make a film without de niro or dicaprio pic.twitter.com/RBiVVdT4vG
— gina (@eyesvvideshut) February 16, 2020
Someone couldn’t resist an attempt to flip the script.
— bobby finger (@bobbyfinger) February 18, 2020