Fictional works and characters exist for precisely the purpose of reflecting the actual world and saying something about real people and how they behave. Prisons are real, and the show is depicting very real consequences of privatization and gross mismanagement that also happen in real life. Again, you are ignorant if…

It's not racist to say that white women like Judy King are taught to be manipulative by white supremacy, and that structural racism allows white women to get away with being emotionally violent on a level that women of color can't. It's an observation of U.S. society that numerous scholars and writers have made, that…

Yeah :{

It's still 'a racial thing'/has a critical racial context because 1) it's made clear that Judy King is an opportunistic and casually racist white lady who has no problem using the Black women on the show, but doesn't care about the racism they or anyone have to put up with, as long as it doesn't affect or hurt her and…

I'm a little too excited about getting upvoted by Betty Draper, hoping it leads to us going horseback riding together some day

My skepticism of Judy King is based on 2 things: first, the fact that Black Cindy and Taystee definitely noticed over the course of the season that JK was absolutely using them, and second, my own experience with how white women, especially white women of means, are taught to manipulate and use superficial niceness as…

Yes to Cindy and Watson! Their moments together during this episode meant the most to me. The moment where they're laughing at a memory of Poussey one minute and they both start to cry a few seconds later was devastating, and it was one of the realest film portrayals of grief/loss behavior I've ever seen.

This is one of those episodes that made me think, why do I watch this show? Why do I like to hurt so much? I find myself using these recaps for a sort of guided meditation/processing via critique. TY for providing them, Myles.

P sure that looking forward to the Character Pairing Ranking for this episode is the only thing that got me through it. TAYSTEE AND POUSSEY. THEY WILL LIVE IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER.

Myles, I too have felt frustrated when the show focuses too much on Healy. While I have no issue with them giving us a humanizing backstory for him, especially because his backstory speaks to how the prisons's institutional misogyny/misogynist ableism is perpetuated on an individual level, I am definitely irritated by…

I just laughed way too hard at this and it was exactly what I needed after this disappointment of a day

I feel like it's one thing to write a character who isn't a wlw who sleeps with a woman for personal gain; from a talented writer, that could be a great character and fascinating story. But it's something else entirely to say that lesbians should hate and wish death upon a character, who's a Black woman, because she…

This is so gross. As if bisexual women aren't already super vulnerable, and don't already deal with misogyny and biphobia both from straight people and from the lesbians they know and sometimes date. Not to mention that a white show runner talking casually like this about a Black woman character is infuriating. I…

It's not that Bill & Virginia have 'switched roles' — he has more power than she does and always will, to suggest otherwise is to be oblivious or willfully ignorant of patriarchal influence works, even in long-term couples/partnerships. It's just that Virginia isn't coddling Bill anymore, and he's upset because of it.…