You know, 2025 has been such a chill year so far that I’m sure everyone was thrilled to spend some time relaxing with an episode of television entirely about a bunch of men demanding that a woman prove she is a virgin with a series of barbaric, humiliating tests. Not at all impossible to watch without wanting to throw my TV at the wall, right?

When we learned last week that, thanks to a letter from the ever-charming Lord Lovat, Isaac Grant was demanding Ellen submit to a virginity test, excuse me — he wants to make sure her virtue is intact, isn’t that such a sweet way of putting it? — I knew Blood of My Blood would show some of this test. Outlander does love reminding us how much violence was (is!) perpetrated against women. I did not, however, think this virginity test thing would b

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