"Outlander" Is The Feminist Answer To "Game Of Thrones."
I don’t actually think Game of Thrones is unfeminist for the most part, but this show looks interesting. Yeah, unfeminist things happen to the women in GOT, and perhaps we didn’t need another sword and sandals vehicle, but the women in that world are real characters with depth and verisimilitude.
Just because a world is unfeminist – shocker, like the world we live in! – doesn’t mean the work is unfeminist. Subtlety is a mode that many people do not possess, though. (If a world makes a work unfeminist, then by definition every work by anyone in this world – the actual one – would be unfeminist.)
Aggghh… contemporary feminist critique is the new social realism (without the gulags for those who do not sufficiently uplift the masses).
I’ve only recently started GOT (just saw ep 1 of season 2) and the female characters have depth and are interesting (far more important to art than ticking ideological boxes).
Horrible things happen to them but nothing worse than what’s happening to the men (my favorite moment so far was Daenarys’ stone cold reaction to watching her brother’s horrible death). So far the Daenarys and Jon Snow storylines are far more interesting to me than the central power struggle for the seven kingdoms.
I’m not sure if I’ll get around to this Outlander which looks more like an intellectualized bodice ripper than anything else…
The best ‘feminist’ series by far in the last ten years or so is Borgen*. I’m sure the announced US remake (because Americans are too insulated to read subtitles) will be dreadful beyond belief….
*just in case you’re not familiar with it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgen_%28TV_series%29
I completely support the cause and almost all of the goals of feminism, but stopped visiting many of the old feminist sites I used to frequent as they went off the rails, and I am quite radical.
They weren’t radical, but were almost-unconsciously regurgitating points fed to them by propaganda machines they didn’t really understand.
Sounds like a good show, Borgen. I am not allergic to subtitles at all, so will give it a watch.