Cherime’s answer to “why are people saying Outlander is a rape book?” > Likes and Comments
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Finally! Someone understands that life isn't a fairytale, especially in the 1700's and that rape does happen!
Your comment is rude. You can live in the real world without reading about rape every five seconds
Because time travel through a standing stone really happens?
I have yet to hear an actual historian say this amount of rape being depicted is “historically accurate” regardless it’s evident the author has a fetish for rape or unresolved trama or both.
Ha, ha. What's funny about this is after the third book I quit reading the series. Lost interest.
"In those times" - source? Rape is super common in today's world, doesn't mean every single book needs like 5 major rape plot points, or that it's OK to depict a married couple where the husband is a rapist as normal and sexy.
Those times being 1700s. Rape is never ok. Didn't say it was. I did say that it's a power trip.
I know what time period the books take place in. I asked for a source. Do you have a degree in history, or any actual historical evidence about the prevalence and social function of rape in the 1700s? Or just assumptions?
A whole lot of reading and research. I was a paralegal. So , no I don't have a history degree. Just a very curious nature and because of my age, I don't have the memory to pull up what you are looking for. Not to mention a lot of my books got left behind when we moved to Alaska in 1974
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Finally! Someone understands that life isn't a fairytale, especially in the 1700's and that rape does happen!
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Your comment is rude. You can live in the real world without reading about rape every five seconds
Because time travel through a standing stone really happens?
I have yet to hear an actual historian say this amount of rape being depicted is “historically accurate” regardless it’s evident the author has a fetish for rape or unresolved trama or both.
Ha, ha. What's funny about this is after the third book I quit reading the series. Lost interest.
"In those times" - source? Rape is super common in today's world, doesn't mean every single book needs like 5 major rape plot points, or that it's OK to depict a married couple where the husband is a rapist as normal and sexy.
Those times being 1700s. Rape is never ok. Didn't say it was. I did say that it's a power trip.
I know what time period the books take place in. I asked for a source. Do you have a degree in history, or any actual historical evidence about the prevalence and social function of rape in the 1700s? Or just assumptions?
A whole lot of reading and research. I was a paralegal. So , no I don't have a history degree. Just a very curious nature and because of my age, I don't have the memory to pull up what you are looking for. Not to mention a lot of my books got left behind when we moved to Alaska in 1974
