The regime could also believe, or just claim, that being gay is a choice…before Emily had the freedom to choose to sin and now she has the freedom from the temptation. The fact that they act like genital arousal is the biggest factor in Emily's "choice to sin" in her Redemption shows such a disconnect from how…

Yup, and a higher up politician was recently found out to have started a sub-reddit about the inferiority of women and how all men are entitled to sex by any means that inspired several violent incidents and shootings.

I settled on watching it alone first and then rewatching with my partner. He hasn't read the book and at first I was just pre-watching to make sure he wouldn't be horrified by not knowing what's coming but then I realized I don't know what's coming either and need that space to process too before any questions.

Kathleen writes all Tom's best lyrics…but yeah, we'd have to keep him around because nobody else can sing like that.

I just learned about that show yesterday but feel like I want to check it out now.

I still love the kimono night because the judges were just horrified.

It was still pretty damn rough though. The idea of her survivor's guilt after the "useless" Martha is hanged…the need to have a human connection in that world…her previous resignation that she will probably never see her wife and son again. Ugh, this show is messing me up.

One of the reviews I read earlier accidentally referred to the violent group that took over and created Gilead as the Sons of Jacob and I just…yikes. Yikes.

I get the impression that "guilty by association" is common enough in this regime or perhaps he believed some of "gay is contagious" tropes or a variation of "gay until parole", or maybe he does know of the resistance? I think what I like is that there is know way of knowing how much he knows and what he's warning of…

I've got two chihuahuas with extensive wardrobes…I'll have them ready for post show cheer now. Here's Tuco as a tiny sad hotdog: http://i66.tinypic.com/11vs…

Then again, Nick could know nothing of the resistance but had heard rumors of her gender-traitor ways and was warning her on that.

FEMINISM IS A CANCER TO SOCIETY.

Yes, the perfect antidote. Unless some queen picks some all red gown and accidentally sets me off on a gloom.

I hate to say fun fact or speaking of hanging…but…fun fact while speaking of hanging, the book is dedicated to Half-Hanged Mary, a woman accused of witchcraft and hung in Massachusetts. When they came to cut her down, she was still alive and lived another fourteen years.

Jezabel is rounding up tweets of dudes complaining about the show but nothing super good yet…just waiting for that "why are all the men on the show shady?"

Classic Andy.

There is ano amazing passage in the book where Offred is thinking about how little she paid attention to the bad news in the papers that didn't effect her. Stating that ignorance is one thing but ignoring takes work.

I propose a comment thread for each episode to slightly off-topic discuss what we all did for aftercare. A small glimmer of happy thoughts.

Her wife and son are in Canada. This was a new romance.

That's what I'm hoping…whereas in the book, the Children of Ham rehoming is just barely touched upon…by stretching the timeline, they can show the oppressed white people of the regime turning against people of color and that more reflects the intersection of class and race we have in abundance now for the first time…