[ SECRET POST #4995 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4995 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's deeply deeply ironic seeing as her books are essentially cultural appropriation of Scottish history. She is a shit writer.

[ibbity]

I have no dogs in the Gabaldon fight but how is writing historical fiction cultural appropriation? Unless she's pretending to be a Scot or acting like she knows better than Scottish historians or sth, which for all I know she is

[(Anonymous)]

or acting like she knows better than Scottish historians or sth

Yes, that's why.

[ibbity]

ooh, dish the dirt on what she's pretending to know better on

[(Anonymous)]

just want to point out, even if the internet has forgotten this, that "cultural appropriation" is a neutral term. it's cultural appropriation whether she's doing it badly or not, because she's using a culture she isn't part of - that doesn't mean she's wrong for doing it or doing it wrong.

[sparklywalls]

I work in the heritage sector in Scotland and we have a, shall we say, complicated relationship with those books and the show. It flung a bunch more tourists our way and I absolutely don't mind talking to people and telling them the true history if they're interested, which usually I assume they are. As long as they recognise that the books are historical fiction and a romanticised picture of historical Scotland then it's fine.