None of you scrubs watching this?
I'm watching. Scary shyt. This show is like "Get Out" but for women. Gilead is whole nation where women are robbed of their autonomy, and handmaidens in particular sort of live in a sunken place. Some of the rhetoric espoused by men like The Commander that reduce women to hardly anything more than chattal? I've seen it in the darkest corners of "the manosphere". Places like r/Incels, r/ForeverUnwanted, some "alt reich" blogs.
Ep06:
Boy. Today's episode sure was interesting. Serena fukking Joy. She's a redpiller woman through and through, and a firebrand at that. Getting arrested at protests and such. You wondered about her. I wondered what kind of job she held, because she possesses an assertiveness and overall carriage that strongly suggested that she wasn't always a simple housewife. She and her husband are dye-in-wool extremists, and in the flashback in this episode, she totally approved of the plan to enact the coup of the US government. What came after though with the formal creation of Gilead was too extreme even for her. These two are really interesting, her and the commander. There's a spectrum of extremism in Gilead society, and you sort of see both Serena and the commander at odds with some of the more conservative members. There was a time when her husband truly viewed her as his equal - his partner in crime - and tried to argue for her inclusion in governance. Serena has her beliefs, but the spirit of the women's liberation burns bright in her. Being on ground zero, on the front lines - that's her thing. Sadly ironic.
