As a young newly out queer woman this had such a profound effect on myself and my friends. We had viewing parties for both the puppy episode and her Diane Saywer interview. My parents were havuing a very hard time with my sexuality and seeing Betty stand up for Ellen was soawesome.
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Reverse mansplain = Explady?
I’m really lucky my boyfriend both read “A Handmaid’s Tale” in a college course before I met him, that he is a Poly Sci major who understood what it was saying, what it was referencing, the actual source of Margaret Atwood’s politics and fears behind the curtain, why it is right, and that he “likes” the book. (I.E. no…
That’s what you get for marrying a super villain. Well, a level 4 super villain.
It’s not reverse-mansplaining if the man is actually clueless about the thing he’s being schooled on.
My friend had to have her sons through IVF. Initially her doctor only put her on infertility treatments and they couldn’t figure out why things were not progressing better since she was ovulating just fine. Over a year later they finally had her husband tested. He virtually makes no viable sperm. Though she did…
UGH
Trying to educate him?
The only people I know who think it is unrealistic are men.
Reading the book, I interpreted Offred’s definition of rape (and not-rape) more as a reflection of the culture she’s living in. Like... she doesn’t get to call what happens to her rape because it’s state-sponsored. It’s like her saying she used to have another name, but not telling the reader what it is (major…
“but at one point he accused me of trying to “educate him””
Well how fucking DARE you.
I’m confused by that tweet.
“It’s a rape fantasy”? God knows sexualizing rape is a depressingly common trope, but I’m having troubling imagining how anyone could confuse the cold, clinical rapes in The Handmaid’s Tale with erotica.
Agreed. Also, Rivera’s ex (father of her child) played a redneck methhead on Justified without doing anything to change his personal style, so she clearly has a type.
Did he miss Casey Affleck winning an Oscar for playing a blue collar American this year? At least he acknowledged that he was wrong, that’s more than I was expecting after expressing that opinion.
Maybe it’s that time you went on telly and called their mother a liar? Jesus the perpetual victimhood of this woman
He and a small cadre of Republicans engineered a raid on the embassy in Benghazi and it went horribly wrong...