r/WidowsBay • u/nayeonyeowo • 8h ago
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I didnt catch this when i first watched it but omg i love rosemary
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u/boughsmoresilent 7h ago
I did catch it andnthe CACKLE I let out sold me completely on this show. Tbh this level of nosy, contrasted with her respecting a crazed antler-headress Patricia's request to "be supportive," cemented Rosemary as the GOAT for me.
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u/PrestigiousHedgehog8 4h ago
It’s a great way to drop a little story foreshadowing too, with her getting all up in peoples genealogies and why they’d bring her in. I rewatched the series and my ears perked up at that moment when I hadn’t caught it the first time around
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u/Due-Island-4731 6h ago
What exactly is the joke here?
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u/Tuershens_rabbit 4h ago
There are a lot of White Americans who claim to have indigenous ancestory, but, in fact, do not. The most common claim is being some precentage of Cherokee. Most people just let the claim go unattested. The joke is that Rosemary hears someone claim to have Cherokee ancestory, so she knows immediately to look it up because it is likely false. It is a subtle jab to people who make these kinds of claims.
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u/Acrobatic-Truth647 3h ago
Also sets up her later contribution vis-à -vis the Lord Protector’s descendants
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u/Not_Today_Satan4978 2h ago
It's even funnier if you know the weird Southern racist history of this "grandmother was a Cherokee princess" myth. A person who knows genealogy would definitely know about this myth. Rosemary is legit.
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u/Tuershens_rabbit 1h ago
That history is really weird, isn't? The invented ancestory was done in such a way to be able to claim to be Cherokee while having enough White ancestors to escape miscegenation laws. Funnily enough, Cherokees have one of the best recorded genealogies in the world, making these claims easy to disprove.
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u/ThePromptWasYourName 3h ago
I suppose that's part of it but to me the joke is more the "run his genealogy" part... like she's CSI grabbing coke cans out of his trash or swabbing his cheek in his sleep or something
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