Well, you can say prudish or you can say moral. It sounds awful with all those destitute prostitutes and abandoned orphans. And without contraception, chastity is the only way to limit those horrors.

I see what you're trying to say, but to call it morality when chastity doesn't really help with either of those issues feels wrong. People having less sex doesn't make the prostitutes less destitute or keep your parents from dying: women's rights and social programs do.

Compared to the modern era they were. Imagine what they'd think of us today.

@@meretchen BUT---womens self defense voluntariy version---OR male chauvinist hypocritical dominant imposed version vs. women.?

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Society didnt think that was more moral, that's why chastity was prized.

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In all honesty, it’s my opinion that Lydia was written as a brainless, flighty and fly-by-the-seat of your pants kind of character. She embodied all the recklessness that young women of that time were warned about and was the “cautionary tale”. She didn’t have an end-game because she simply didn’t think that far ahead.

I heard a good one that she gets the man to agree to marry her, thus so far (in her mind) she has been the most successful sister in achieving what their mother wanted for them. Only, she didn't realise life wasn't so simple.

Sorry, that should read Predator. Not predictor. I cant seem to edit my post.

Lydia's endgame was marriage and it never occurred to her that she would not end up so. She was stupid and naive and fell for everything that Wickham told her. She doesn't understand the implication that her non marriage would cause the ruination of herself and her sisters because that is outside the scope of her thoughts (her being 100% convinced that she's becoming Mrs Wickham very soon). Per her mother's example, getting married is the most important thing in the world and she's just happy it's happening for her first, ahead of her elder, more eligible sisters. As a very young and silly sixteen year old, she also doesn't grasp that her behaviour is bad because her parents haven't taken the time to check her in the way that they did the elder Bennett sisters. She also fails to understand that Wickham had to be bribed to marry her, that went straight over the top of her head. Basically she's a dumbass.

Dr.Octavia Xox has a 40 minute video about just this. It is called "why did Mr Wickham 'elope' with Lydia Bennet. A Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice character analysis."

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I saw their house. I thought it a very good way to live and how lucky they were to live in Beautiful Wales. I believe one of the candidates for the Grail Castle was also in the n neighborhood. I climbed to it often and oddly enough, the climb up was very long but the climb down seemed another route and was very short. Magical Wales! I shall never forget it!

Thank you! I really appreciate your feedback. Yeah, it was quite jarring that Benedict's entire gay storyline was just... gone in season 2.

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I agree. Especially since it seemed like he is going to be at least bi.

I want to wait the next season before declaring it's queerbaiting... There is still hope!

I think they might make Colin bi. In the books he does travel a lot and is more worldly than the others. Makes most sense.

@@elisaumbro7288 Same! I know it's not the way of the books, but it seems like the series is taking quite some liberties, so there's still hope!

@@lemondrizzlecake7766 also his story deserved a rewriting because in his book he is an awful Nice Guy

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Can you expound on that? Hellfire Clubs I mean.🙈

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Each book follows the lives (love lives) of one of the siblings and so season one was Daphne and then I think Anthony is next. I sure he'll be mentioned but as far as I'm aware the novels fall into quite classic romance tropes and I think it ends up rather hereto all round. Maybe netflix will broaden the horizons of the books though! (PS I haven't read them)

I think it would be cool if they made Benedict gay or bi. It could still follow the same plot as in the books. Just change the gender. As they did with race. I agree about LBGTQ history. Especially lesbian history as it was not as greatly reported/documented.

@4Freedom4All But isn't Bridgerton as tv show promoted as fantasy? Many black and POC people said that they liked seeing themselves on screen as royalty even though it isn't based on reality. Plus Bridgerton is not historical novel. It's firstly romance. Why set it in Regacy? Because people like pretty palaces and clothes though they wouldn't want to live without hot water etc. FICTION is imaginary. Why should POC be exluded from that? It's the same as fairytales, they were mostly written by rich bourgeois women who wanted to be princesses. And nobody cares watching Cinderella that prince would never marry her. If you want real british regacy era than read fiction from that era or read studies about that era, don't watch tv shows. I think in the original books they were all white. And guess what? In the tv show they found a way to get around that. Yeah, they decided to keep misogyny, need to control women and homophobia. Downtown Abby also has gay character who is servant and the noble family and other employees accept him eveb though it was still illegal to be gay. In the tv show depict Benedict as someone who is going against society norms, gets delighted by notice of gay man and seems to enjoy the thought of drawing men in nude. So yeah, a lot of people thought he was going to be bi/gay. How dare I want more representation? It seems like straight people will get eight series of straight romance. Why can't at least one include romance between people of same gender? There's close to zero historical romances between people of the same gender that ends happily. So yeah, we don't have as much representation. As I said the show is fantasy. In the show love between black woman and white man ended racism. Which is pure fantasy and we all know that reality is different. I never said we live in perfect world. People around the world still have it hard whether they are POC or LGBTQ. Where I live, I can't even adopt a child or marry someone of the same gender. But that's why tv shows and other media exists as way of escapism.

I mean, he can be bi, and still be in a relationship with woman. Just because he's bi, doesn't mean he'd end up with a man. And I think it was hinting that he was bi, and since this next season is about Anthony's love story, I'd like Benedict to explore his sexuality a bit before season 3 (which would be his love story). I would love to see bi representation, because people automatically think you're either gay or lesbian when they think of the LGBTQ community, and that's not true. Or they think if you're bisexual, you HAVE to end up with someone of the same sex, which is also not true. You can be bisexual and still end up with someone from the opposite sex.

@4Freedom4All I've read all of the Bridgeton novels (it's the reason why I watched the show), and it's looking like the show is deviating from the books, a bit. Because of the show was actually H.A., half the characters wouldn't be people of color. I like the deviations they've made thus far, and it has been suggested that Benedict might be bisexual, or bicurious at best. Which would be nice to explore! I do want them to keep his love story with Sophie, though. It was my favorite book out of all of them, and I would hate for the showrunners to do away with it.

Considering even our society's guilty of double moral standards& many men still find (sexually)assertive/"predatory" girls intimidating& tiring (albeit, temporarily amusing😁), it's hardly surprising. 😬🤐😂 Also, knowing our proto-rockstar, Georgie probs got bored with the lady&started hating everything about her, including stuff he'd previously enjoyed. Plus,he passionately loved complaining.😜😁 😂 Still a hilarious comment, though 😂😂😂 I actually thought the same. 😉

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@@AJaneiteSews No problem. I'm really quite stunned at the attitude people are giving you after you provided such great content. Seems like they consumed it undigested...

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I had to check to make sure, Bentham's Head is indeed the head of the very same Jeremy Bentham. Such a fascinating individual!

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Yeah, I was really disappointed to read the synopsis of Eloise’ book, both for her sake and Marina’s.

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I’m positive she used the Woods and Pirie case as inspiration!

Every single one of the books is hetero, they were just written to be standard regency romance novels.

I'm sure that last sentence has to be related to all the former ones, but it is late and my brain is not reading between the lines. Could you elaborate?

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The way you expressed how you like to study the regency era but wouldn't want to live in it made my heart really warm. Mostly because it's so easy to romanticize period pieces without realizing how women and lgbt people suffered through them and having someone acknowledge this while simultaneously loving to study them made me very happy. So thank you for the very informative video and thank you for touching on lgbt subjects and being so accepting it made me feel seen which is something that it's difficult to come across when I read or study about this subject that I love (sorry for some errors I might have made English is not my first language)

You are correct. It was not published in his lifetime.

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Perhaps true that there wasn’t force, but there isn’t a question on God’s view of the act of homosexuality according to scriptures. Firstly, here’s focus on the family’s response, similar to yours in some ways, but on Jesus view being authoritative to all, not just an analogy: “Some claim Jesus never said anything about homosexuality and therefore is neutral on the topic. Not true. Jesus was unequivocal in saying that to understand marriage and the sexual union, we must go back to the beginning and see how God created humanity and to what end. (See Matthew 19 and Mark 10.) Jesus holds up the creation story in Genesis not as a quaint Sunday school lesson, but as authoritative - reminding us that God created each of us male and female, each for the other. And the sexual union that God created and ordains is for husband and wife to come together in physical union, one flesh.” In other scripture “sexual immorality” is used to describe any act of sex outside of Jesus’ and the apostle Paul’s clear definition of one man and one woman in marriage (Matthew 19 & Ephesians 5) If there was no definition, there would be no clarity on what sexual immorality even means. God’s not going to smite the homosexual though, because of free will, so like you said, not force. God paints a clear picture of how he knows humans will thrive and be blessed and peaceful in the design he had intended for us. If you choose by your free will to live outside of that, then you will miss out on the life God is offering for you, what He knows in His authority as our creator to be what’s best for us. Any opinion outside of this just questions the creator and is in its foundation rather a faith issue. At that point it doesn’t even matter what immorality and morality even is because it all just becomes relative without a definition, the tides of morality always changing with each generation and each persons changing opinion. Therefore rendering the very concept of ethics meaningless. If you read that entire response, thank you. I just wanted to clarify that the Bible scriptures does clarify a stance on homosexuality, whether or not it was specifically written that it was “brought up to Caesar”. Its important to read process what the Bible says without the lenses of personal preference or opinion.

@@fleurviverre7097 In the family and in the church is the proper place to deal with God's law regarding marriage, family, faithfulness, and responsibility. Its' a family matter. Nero was undeniably evil and sordid. While John the Baptizer, Jesus, Paul, and the early church were silent about the Roman government's sins, the church was commanded to enact church discipline when believers fell into sin. What they taught and preached was purity WITHIN the church, within the family, and within the marriages. Just like the members were forbidden to sue each other, lawsuits were a normal and expected event in the civil realm. The believers are absolutely commanded to mirror Christ in their lives. The Christian is supposed to be a constant testimony to the changing power of God. To be different.

@@stephenszucs8439 gotcha, I think I understand better now the message you’re trying to convey, and I think I agree with almost everything you’re saying (just I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “changing power” of God. He’s the same yesterday today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8). Just an observation, but It seems to me that we are living in comparable times regarding the vastly different values between the government and the Christ follower. This has challenged me to understand more about what my response as a Christian should be in light of such times via Christ’s example. You’re right about being a testimony and to be different from the “world”. Thanks for the respectful response.

@@fleurviverre7097 The changing power is an attribute of God that allows an alcoholic and congenital liar to spend the rest of his life winning souls. It changed the murderous Saul to a martyr for Christ. God wasn't created. He creates. He does not change, he changes us. I think one of the hardest things to do, but the most effective is to pray for the country and Joe Biden and to win the people one at a time. We can't impact the culture without changing hearts.

@@stephenszucs8439 Yep, agreed

I loved Gentleman Jack! I’ve got it on my list of series to analyze ☺️

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