Right? All of these are generically awful. And $12 a pair = landfill fodder.

Agreed!! The styles are so outdated! blech. Does the writer like them ironically??

Oh thank you for saying everything I was thinking. These are atrocious.

If there was a young man in literally any other profession who made $100 million before he was 30 and decided to retire, he would be lauded. The Wall Street Journal would write thousands of words of wankery praising his acumen and smarts and god bless America.

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My theory is that 1) yes, any Marthas still found alive in the forest, or remotely suspected of involvement go on the wall, 2) you can’t kill the handmaids, like you said, so 3) all Marthas and handmaids in all of Gilead go back into the system, and get reshuffled and reassigned to different parts of the country. This…

I must, because I don’t remember Daria running around making gobs of money off calling people “retard” for not thinking like her and defending white folks using the n word.

I think that’s just what she wears indoors and we seldom see other handmaids at home?

June didn’t get that Martha or OfMathew killed. OfMathew chose to report back to Aunt Lydia. Gilead is what got them killed, but if anyone on the show got that Martha killed, it’s OfMathew. The then chose to rub that act in June’s face. She had the agency that made this happen (as much as any woman in Gilead has…

I am not sure how it compares to sex work or other activities that put the body in danger.

“I’m not sure I would call exploitation, but all the risks were mainly taken by the mother.” - I think that would fit many peoples idea of what exploitation is.

Hawaii was definitely a turning point, but I don’t think people felt more fake at that point . . . just drunker. I feel like that was the season that MTV really discover that keeping the cast liquored up all the time changed the dynamic. But the cast members still felt like real people for the most part, just real…

My only qualm with the show is why June - not to mention the Waterfords - has gotten off so lightly considering - is it 3 failed escape attempts now? A missing baby, a defiant wife and torched house? Not exactly low profile. Main protagonists and many more promised seasons notwithstanding, I’m having some difficulty…

We are just in the homes of high ranking Gilead officials in Boston and this is their style. 

June and Serena bonding over “their” child is so deeply fucked up and yet somehow also very sweet. I have such wonderfully mixed feelings about that entire relationship, I’m so excited to see where it goes from here.

Several years ago, specifically on sister site Jezebel, there was a problem with trolls who would reply to posts with pornographic gifs, usually depicting rape. The solution— implemented in all kinja platforms— was for posts & replies from untrusted accounts to be pending (i.e., the average reader would have to make a…

I thought Beth was the woman he’d been sleeping with/giving black market supplies to at Jezebel’s (she was a Martha  there, too).

Wasn't the Martha in Emily’s house (the one who was executed) white?

He feels guilt for having implemented The Colonies and using rebellious women as slave labor as the main economic driver of Gilead; that’s why he was so stung when June was arguing with him in his study and she called him out on it. She definitely had him pegged; I think the “he doesn’t like to be bored” comment was…

I thought Portman’s work in “Black Swan” was WAY overrated, but she is legitimately terrific in “Jackie”.