It’s why the people in concentration camps during the holocaust didn’t immediately team up and kick the asses of all the Nazis keeping them there.

Blob, Blob, Blob - you behave like someone who has never visited the United States.

I’ll tell you what I think.  Waterford was horny and wanted to have intercourse with something.  Perhaps Serena wasn’t putting out?  Since Fred can’t be caught enjoying any kind of sex with a handmaid, he has to rape her while advancing this notion of labor-inducement.  It’s a win-win for him.

Race mattered in the book. They murdered anybody who didn’t conform to the “standard” of Gilead (and being Black or Jewish or Muslim or Hindi made it an easy choice). It’s been brushed aside for this adaptation.

All I’m saying is one person said it a long time ago. That person told another person, who told three people, and so on and so on - sort of an old-fashioned version of hot potato, telephone, or “fake news.”

Alright, we’ll play it your way.  Now Gilead takes your neighbor’s advice to induce labor!  Again, nothing in the Bible.  Nothing in medical science.  One of the Commander’s poker buddies recommends intercourse (forced or otherwise) to get the baby out of there.  I’m desperately grasping at logic straws to find some…

I can’t really engage with loony justifications for unending rape and torture. Even if Hannah dies while swinging a knife against her oppressors, it sends a message. The writers continue to deal reverses to the girls. We have a suicide bomber who takes out a number of commanders (and handmaids), but nothing comes of…

Do you get the feeling certain people want to love these characters unconditionally, though they’ve done nothing to earn that love? That all of this is some bizarre test of virtue. There’s something about the show that reminds me of Marquis de Sade’s Justine; just mindless sadism and twisted, textual pornography,…

Okay, have fun in your wonderful world of illusion!  I’ll be over here...

Both!

Driving over train tracks doesn’t involve rape and forced intercourse. There’s way too much rape on this show.

No Doctor I have ever known (including my Mother) has ever recommended this, nor have I ever heard of it.  Perhaps the writer knows a lunatic down the street who said something about it.  I would gather anybody in medical science would say this sounds extremely dubious and incredibly dangerous.

How many African slaves jumped off the ship or tried to runaway versus the millions who focused on surviving in their situation to live another day.

I’d love to put it out there; there is no medical science, no old wives tale, no Biblical passage that claims intercourse (forced or not) will somehow induce labor. I don’t know where they (either Gilead or the writer) get their information. Unless it’s just another reason to hate Gilead and Fred-O. I really didn’t…

That definitively kills the racial separatism from the book. Perhaps in the show they want to keep those racial boundaries, but that doesn’t explain the mixed econo-marriage from a few episodes back. My God, this show makes no freaking sense.  There’s no logic.  This is why I go off on tangents about resistance,…

I assumed he was promoted because the other guy dropped dead or something.

I did love her saucy comeback, though. Now that was clever.

People actually do escape hopeless situations. They actually do survive.  As long as they do, there is hope that anyone (even the brain-dead handmaids) could do the same.

I’ve had to fight for my life on a couple of occasions. You don’t know what you’re talking about, and you don’t know me. Apparently you get off on watching human suffering in the guise of some “great art” with political and social implications.  If I were to make ignorant assumptions about you, I would say you’re into…

Maybe you should reserve your derision for your keyboard, Jason Bourne.