White Western Women love this series.
White women thing.
shareI got bored with it halfway through Season 2, and I have always had issues with them leaving out some good stuff from the books, upping the drama unnecessarily, the use of rape as a plot device, and I'm still angry about Jamie beating Claire on the butt with a belt to save face with his men. It's one reason I'll never picture Jamie as a love interest for myself.
shareYeah, but are you white, though?
shareDo real Scotsmen go totally nekkid under the kilt? :D
shareAt a point in my life, I was active in a Celtic dance/music chattroom. A likely young lad was trying to promote his EnnZedd Celtic dance troupe, in wake of the Riverdance behemoth.
His cheeky answer to the everlasting question of "What do you wear under your kilt?" was "Your daughter's lipstick!"
(and YES! He further said that it got him a black eye once)
For me the turning point was when she walked around singing "Boogie woogie bugle boy" in 17th Century Scotland, at that time she would have been burned as a witch for talking in tongues! I kept going though but the male rape scene was just too much and the show had already crossed into torture porn often before that anyway.
Throw in that she was never even like a 1940's woman anyway let alone would have been able to survive in the 17th century with her attitude.
I have issue with Clare's 21st century mindset too, instead of 1940s. It pissed me off that she showed Jamie a pic of his daughter clad in a bikini. She may have been from the 60s by then, but it would've been easy for her to recall how shocking that attire would've been in the 30s and 40s, let alone the 17th century! And she goes and shows him that pic of the daughter 98% naked? Look how the people back then dressed! Also after her wedding night, she goes out in a sheer nightie for the male rowdy party downstairs to see? In the 40s, people wore robes on top of their nightgowns, and wouldve found it improper to parade in see through clothes in front of a wedding party. Why does she not know this? When she meets the racist English officers, she berates them and lectures them on Scottish independence! These are the colonizers, these are officers, she can see how dangerous these men are and she thinks she can lecture them without consequences? She encounters Capt. Randall for the first time, realizes he is dangerous and might hurt her, what does she do? She spits at his face, and curses at him, to provoke him to rape, torture, and kill her! I don't get this mentality, why act in a way to provoke a very dangerous person to hurt you? Why not try to act meek or diplomatic until you can find a way to escape? Idk if that's a 21st century thing or just a western woman thing.
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