thing i think about sometimes:
the way miranda’s reputation was used as the believable cover story for the destruction of her life such that the story lasted ten years and was heard as far away as Nassau/Boston/Philadelphia (depending on where Richard Guthrie heard it).
ah, slightly tangential, but all of the feelings about the women in the show and their attitude toward ‘legacy’ in contrast with the men. I was just watching the episode last night where Max tells Anne how “…in another place, another time, I would have been called a queen….[instead they will call me]..the whore who lost everything”.
It’s the same episode where Eleanor calls Nassau her ‘birthright’ and Jack talks about building up Nassau as *his * legacy. Flash forward to Marion Guthrie, and her wistfulness about not being able to pass on her experience and wisdom – her business- to Eleanor. Of course, all of this is a complex interaction of race and social class along with gender, but ugh, sometimes I hate how the women in this show can only wield their power in the shadows. How difficult it is for the world to accomodate their dreams-and rage.
The only exceptions that come to mind are Eleanor, Madi, and Anne, and of those three, Anne doesn’t particularly care about legacy or how people think of her; and Eleanor eventually finds that she has to retreat behind Woodes Rogers – to literally subsume her identity, publicly, to “wife”- if she is to get what she wants.
#what i want is an entire show#where miranda and eleanor and madi and max and anne#are the protagonists#is what i’m saying#yes i know that’s what fanfic is for#but sometimes i don’t want to have to work triple hard#to center women in the stories i love via @drivingsideways33
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