@chet31 agreed. The premise relies too heavily on restrictive gender roles re: parenting, & romanticized misogyny. Her rise to “villainy” is too dependent on estimating a woman’s worth by her usefulness to men. It makes the Time Travel Redemption aim of the novel intrinsically faulty.😬
There’s going to be a 💩 load of thermian arguments reminding “that’s just how it was back then”, “it makes sense for the setting”, as if this is historical fiction with a true to life setting. Along w a bunch contradicting that by saying gendered social injustice in fiction is unrelated to those irl.
But like... featuring unjust practices & prejudices in a work without showing their negative impact is just normalizing them. & no media exists in a vacuum, without influencing/being influenced by modern society (at time of publication/release).😔 Esp not cross-culture media.
it suuucks
a** this kind of message is so ubiquitous in “romance” targeted at younger female audiences dude 😥😩😩
Anyway. Rant of the night over. I’ll be dropping this now 😗✌🏼