We'll lay aside for a moment the assumption I don't understand the book or the show. Because honestly, if we get into why white women have projected that onto my response we will be here all day. Instead I'll remind you that rape porn exists. And that lynchings were public.
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I'm trying really hard not to venture into chapter length soap boxing, but I genuinely want people to step back & ask themselves why they think this show's addition of rape scenes is remotely feminist or helpful when they know it isn't in any other media.
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This isn't playing out in a society that thinks violence against women is too abhorrent to be shown. This is playing out in a society that makes a fetish of that violence. That wallows in the horror to the point that directors will harm women in their productions to get terror
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There are no lessons being taught in Gilead on screen. It's rape porn with a veneer of feminist rhetoric. Surprise! I know you want to believe otherwise because it horrifies you. But the actors will have trauma & you will too & the people getting off on it will have their fun.
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Way back in casting a handsome man & beautiful women the show drove straight into making it seem like racism and rape weren't that bad. After all they added some WOC so see Gilead is equal opportunity rape porn...oh.
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And see I am trying really hard not to soapbox endlessly but uh, you still don't have an effective rebellion in Gilead & you should be asking yourself about a season two & why there's still no dead religious white men scattered around as the women rise up & fight back effectively
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Instead you're debating what makes sense for a character that engages in regular ritualized rape & his wife. You're trying to find kindness in his guilt. Because the messages the show is sending are not that Gilead is a horror that can never exist. It should be, but look again
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It's making you feel sympathy for the Devil to the point that you will try to explain away the regular and routine brutality of this futuristic society being what you consume on a regular basis without once realizing that the messaging isn't remotely empowering or healthy.
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Two female coworkers have been telling me I have to watch Handmaid’s Tale. I said I wasn’t interested and your tweets make make me even less interested.
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I've been hate watching it, just bc I want to see where the writers think they can take this narrative. I usually end up fast-forwarding through ~20 minutes of content: pointless flashbacks and scenery-gazing, closeups of blank expressions, gratuitous cruelty.
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