I think the audience is older, maybe teenaged. The pieces read "It's never too late to report your attack." Even older children who had experienced rape would understand this message.

I feel the same way about Flaca—she was off my radar until her line about the iPod and she says she wants cool music like Depeche Mode. I am hoping next season gives us more backstory on all the Latinas.

Welllll, I never worked in a women's prison, but I have at a Texas max. prison and a Fed. complex which had everything from camp to a penitentiary. The difference between state and feds was night and day, and apparently from one fed. unit to another can be pretty different. Granted, it was 15 years ago that I was in a…

The most amazing thing about Natasha Lyonne is that her character's story is pretty much *her* story. You may already have known all this, but I didn't. Knew she'd had trouble with drugs and stuff, but when I read more about her and found out she'd actually had endocarditis from her drug use and needed open heart…

I served time in a federal minimum security prison (they called it a camp), and a lot of the stuff on the show did happen there. I drove a truck to a off-site dump once with another inmate. I worked on a maintenance crew and we had screwdrivers and other tools, and took them into the dorm to do repairs. We were…

I couldnt understand why the guard wouldnt just...I dont know...TAKE THE KEYS?! It's not like you can play music for three hours...it would kill the battery! *facepalm*

This was a really interesting read. But, I feel like she really wanted to rub in the face of the smug Wellesley friend that she was wrong, and 3/4 of what she said was either nitpicky or incorrect (regarding the show). Like:

It really is, I am so glad she pointed out the scene where the obviously violent male offenders are freely walking around with the female prisoners - that was one point in the show where I thought "no way in hell is that happening."

Absolutely. Also, I think that Jessup was a maximum security prison, while the place in OITNB is supposed to be minimum security, so I'm sure there are more differences.

I figured it was fairly inaccurate. The one thing that I (as someone who's never been to prison) found the most inaccurate was Morello being allowed to drive the truck and being left alone for 3 hours. I thought for sure they would take her in the hospital too, or handcuff her or something. It was interesting to see…

I love her nicknames for the characters.

I'm really enjoying this woman's reviews (she's up to episode 7), although I think you've got to suspend your belief a little for a TV show to be entertaining. But she makes a damned good point about the lack of guards everywhere, and I wondered myself why there is a supply closet full of gallon jugs of bleach (a…

Piper has said that the TV version of her story takes quite a bit of artistic license in its telling (I'm guessing even more so in season 2) so I've come to see it largely as a work of fiction - or rather creative non fiction.
I do think that the success of the show has helped to shed light on issues with in the prison…

That's exactly the point being made in this satirical piece. It uses one extreme against another to make it's point, brilliantly.

She wasn't actually putting the responsibility on women. She was making a joke about the fact that men don't notice that women have that responsibility put on them (unfairly), while they get to worry about things like people drawing on their faces while they're passed out drunk.

That's the whole point. The dude just gets to give party tips to "bros", while for girls it's "how to not get raped". That's how the discussion goes in this country. They're making a farcical point.

It seemed pretty obvious to me that it was satire. Cover your friend with a blanket, bring extra shoes in case you need to change so you can run for your life, always be ready to jump out of a moving cab? Those aren't serious tips, yo. Those are making fun of the bullshit "don't get yourself raped" tips.

There's something called satire. Learn what it is.

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