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In the early 1980s, still the heyday of the bodice ripper, literary critic Janice Radway set out to prove the haters wrong.

In books, there’s a genre called “the bodice ripper,” and, she noted, “The woman doesn’t rip her own bodice.”

It’s a bit of an indictment of men, but I think that only about 1% of men are attractive enough, both physically and emotionally, to be the stuff of bodice ripper fantasy.

Dismissing “Outlander” as a bodice ripper would be a serious misunderstanding of why this show is so appealing.

If you are reading Ann Coulter or a trashy bodice ripper you are gaining and learning nothing.