It’s an embodiment of the now rather famous line, possibly apocryphally attributed to Margaret Atwood: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. And the show’s obsession with sexual assault, though understandable, borders on exploitative.īut that scene is something to write home about that scene is like nothing else on television.
The show has had trouble finding a way to characterize the rapist, Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies), with anything else than pure sadism - he has threatened, at this point, at least three of the lead characters with rape. The episode, “Lallybroch,” is not the best episode of “Outlander.” It’s a chapter meant to be a lull in the action, so it’s spliced together with flashbacks and exposition. She goes on, four years later, to have a husband, a son, a child on the way and a household. Ultimately he has to satisfy himself with knocking her out with a particularly heavy blow. He gets angrier and angrier - and less and less aroused. Her laughter cuts through the terror of the scene, negating the sexual energy he draws off of her fear. But not only does she manage to summon up burbling, raucous giggles - it works. The laughter is hysterical, perhaps, or desperate. In narration, afterwards, the character - Jenny (Laura Donnelly), Jamie Fraser’s sister - admits to being terrified and at her wits’ end, out of every other possible option. Her eyes drop to his flaccid member, and back up to his face she continues to revel in her amusement. The woman then does something I have never seen before: She turns around and laughs at him, full-throated. He has groped her and beaten her already, and hauled her brother away for trying to stop him from his pleasure.
The audience is treated to a shot of his uncut, un-erect penis as he tries to become aroused his quote-unquote victim is facing away from him, having been hauled to the bed. So, ranging from a historic biopic about a gay rights activist to a cheesy 2000s rom-com that’ll turn even your worst mood around, here are 25 of the best LGBTQ movies you need to see - or see again.Last night’s episode of “Outlander” features a flashback where a sadist tries to rape a woman but can’t get it up. Luckily, hope is on the horizon: Although LGBTQ people used to be less visible than Sia’s face in a music video, more LGBTQ-identifying filmmakers, actors, producers, and directors than ever are being given the opportunity to tell their stories.
For marginalized groups, truthful representation in film is imperative, even lifesaving, and in today’s stormy political climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgender people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetically - and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like because they live it. Still, from Sacha Baron Cohen’s fashion-obsessed Brüno to a Scream Queens character nicknamed Predatory Lez, we unfortunately continue to see it all. LGBTQ people have long been buried under tropes and unsubtle stereotypes in film and television.