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Date Posted: 21:51:32 01/21/08 Mon
Author: Ruthlass
Subject: In ABOSAA, Donner told C he should have realized she was a fellow TT because she was different from other women of that time - she wasn't afraid. She was always "different" and that difference was more noticed by women than men. Getting too close to other women was dangerous for C. Once nearly burned, twice shy.
In reply to: JessieR and CatherineM 's message, " Mini Reread Topic for January 2008: The Bonds (or lack thereof) of Sisterhood " on 22:40:12 01/15/08 Tue


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[> I don't understand how so many here can say they dislike the way Jenny treated Claire in Voyager! I mean, put yourself in Jenny's shoes. The brother she loves so dearly comes home from Culloden seriously wounded and without the woman he loves, and who professed to love him. Inside, I may go long lol -- KImL, 06:10:37 01/22/08 Tue

She is given no explanation for Claire's disappearance, other than the fact that she is "gone". Jenny brings Jamie back from death's doorstep, only to find that he isn't the same man he was, emotionally. Finally, in an attempt to try and make him "whole" again, she suggests the match to Loaghaire, which Jamie does agree to. She did not hold a gun to his head to make him do it, he went willingly enough. Then, when that marriage starts to fail, Jamie moves to Edinburgh, and seldom goes to Lallybroch, but at least Jenny still gets to see him, even if it is not often. Then, all of sudden, Claire is back, with no explanation of where she was, other than her telling Jenny "I thought he was dead." I mean, Jenny is not stupid. Claire has been gone twenty years, why did Jamie not try and find her if he still loved her? Afterall, she doesn't know about Claire's time travelling abilities, so it would only be natural for Jenny to think that if Jamie knew where Claire was, he would try and find her, and since he didn't, that he must not love her, or her him, anymore. Then, when Claire comes back, Jenny sends for Loaghaire for one reason and one reason only-to try and keep her dearly loved brother at least in Scotland. She "knows" that Jamie will leave Scotland now that he is with Claire, and she is afraid she will never see her brother again. I think what Jenny did was only natural and I think it was Claire who acted irrationally. I think that,in that day and time, I would have done the same thing as Jenny, if it were one of my brothers, especially if one of them had been through what Jamie had been through. I know that I seem to be in a minority here with my way of thinking, but, please remember that it is only my humble opinion! I think one of the reasons why women bond differently than men is that we are so much more unforgiving. We tend to hold onto injustices longer than men and we expect so much more from others than men seem to. And, we are also just more nurturing in general, so therefore, we don't like to see anyone we love get hurt.

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