*MILD SPOILERS* In the first book, Geillis wasn't an outright trope and her manipulative qualities were tempered by compassion and a sense of camaraderie with Claire which I thought was cool. Later, she becomes one of the laziest incarnations of the "evil, hypersexual" woman trope. No nuance. All stereotype.

There is no way Gini's "controlling of his heart" is on the same scale and of the same enormity as Bill's financial control of Gini. The whole "women are actually the ones in control because SEX" fallacy is pernicious because one, it's heteronormative and reduces a woman's value to her body and two, it belies the…

Yes, he humiliates the women around him (Gini, Libby, Essie), but then they are waging this quiet war of attrition around him that is very interesting and that Bill can't ignore anymore (and that is why he invited his mother to the party).

That all seems reasonable and I agree to a large extent (responding to KN2Blue here, too), but I can't shake the image of her naked and clutching onto him and then him dictating exactly what they were going to do sexually. She made herself vulnerable to him by initiating the sexual relationship again (because it…

I don't know how she could have known if he would have fired her or not or if she felt she could have asked that question more directly (after she already put herself on the line by asking a direct one to initiate the conversation). Basically every time they talk, they are masking layers and layers of resentment and…

I can see it more now as Gini cloaking her feelings (I still stand by that it is in reaction to Lillian, too), but we must remember that she has that conversation with Bill about the terms of her employment after episodes of exploring the money problems she has been having. She depends on him financially. Issues of…

It really didn't come off that way in the show (despite what Caplan may have said in an interview) especially since she asked him if it was a stipulation of her employment immediately after she felt shamed for their relationship by Lillian. Obviously, there are layers here and Gini maybe would have felt better that…

She can resist in certain ways against him, but he really has the upper hand. He controls her employment, he controls her access to the study and that is exactly how he got her to sleep with him in the first place in season one and why he stipulated later on that she had to sleep with him as a condition of her…

God. Bill makes me sick. He constantly humiliates the women around him and for what? For his pride? To prove he's a man? (Typical, unsurprising behavior in many ways.) He shames Gini's sexuality, her parenting (like he should be talking) and she has to apologize to him for them to restart their relationship. She has…

This episode makes me sad for how thoroughly Gabaldon assassinates Geillis' character in the later books. I loved Geillis in the first book! But then the story and background Gabaldon writes for her is one of the *many* misogynistic nightmares of the entire Outlander series.

You're very understanding. I never understand why any character is straight.

I can't tell you how many people I have spoken to who have said the same exact thing. When I was a baby queer, Starbuck was very important.

I love to see Gaius on screen. He is also one of the only sources of comedy on the show (although things like the dinner scene with Ellen did fine without him). I am still laughing about when he started to talk to a "vision" (or whatever we call the characters like Head Six) of himself in the fourth season.

My top crush is most definitely Starbuck. And I know this definitely contentious, but she's the best character on the show and one of the best on TV I have ever seen (that was solidified over and over again for me, but the beginning of season 3 and "Sometimes a Great Notion" absolutely and permanently settled that for…

*SPOILERS AHEAD AND CONTENT WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE* Having read the first three books (and generally disliking them for both feminist and narratological reasons and having no idea why I continued to read them), it is not going to be very feminist past the sixth episode (knowing that sixth…