Aww thanks, I think. I don't usually write a novel, but this episode has stuck in my brain since I first watched and refuses to leave.

Especially as content has brought certain elements here.

Please entertainment, let's make a healthy and normal bodily function something that carries zero shame. I've seen/heard so many stories of women who feel like they need to hide their periods from their husbands.

You raise a very interesting point about the import of the fact that she's referred to as Emily in the moment. It just makes it more horrifying.

I feel like we've been pretty lucky with our comment sections so far and then this and Coogin.

Yeah, you're not wrong about the theological society not making sense, but that making sense in how it'd happen. I don't get Serena Joy being so certain because as you said it seems like it's only a matter of days since the ceremony.

It's so good. I love JJ and have a crush on Jimmy.

I rolled my eyes when I heard it. The number of shows/movies/books that I've watched featuring only men or men with one woman….so many and yet that's never my reason for not watching something.

Squee!!!!!!

I mean according to the AV Club grade rule, it literally can't go any higher, but something tells me that it'll become even better.

It's one of the most horrifying things to think about and it enrages me that there are places where girls who don't undergo it become outcasts.

But the rage makes his eyes so dreamy!

With this, the Fyre Festival thing, and the orange gasbag complaining about how being president is too hard, today has been a great day for schadenfreude.

Yeah, I grew up and still live in NE Ohio. My aunt knew people who were down in Kent State when it happened. It was a horrific occurrence. I mean even take the Hillsborough Disaster, which wasn't a protest at all, but did end up with 96 people dead who were dragged through the mud and painted as soccer hooligans…

That's in the running for the worst thing in this episode.

You may very well be right. Though while long-term complications aren't as common with that procedure, they can still happen and impact fertility. (I work for a publication that deals with ob/gyns, so it's not an uncommon subject to see or hear about.)

The podcast that I listen to about The Handmaid's Tale (called Red All Over) talks about how he wants the girlfriend experience. I think that fits into what you're saying very well.

I know that. It makes sense as that sort of attitude has long been held. I was just looking more at the actual, scientific truth which Serena Joy knows.

Apparently it's sub-par sci-if trash according to him. Love the 'I'm not like other girls' woman who tweeted about how she thought it was bad.

Which is so sickening. It's not even connected with sexual thoughts at that age. It just feels good.