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⌈ Secret Post #5485 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the exact same way. I'm glad I read the book. I thought it was very good. But I never want to read it again, and I definitely don't want to watch a TV show of it. I barely held myself together through reading it, I was so furious and sad. And I do think that feeling such intense sorrow and rage is usually the mark of a well-written story about social injustice. But it's also not remotely enjoyable and not a feeling I'd ever want to dwell on more than was necessary to take in what was being said.

[tabaqui]

YES YES YES. I felt exactly the same. I will never read that book again, but I'm glad I did and so have it in my head, so to speak, as a touchstone for various conversations and etc.

Same, for me, with movies/books about the Holocaust. So much anger, horror, despair...I can't stand to watch; it makes me feel as if I'm forcing the spirits of those people to relive that nightmare, and I just can't do it.

[kassidy62]

I'm not sure why I stuck with the show, because it was extremely difficult to watch, and never mind the Orange One was pres when I started watching. After the main character started finding avenues to fight back I was better, unrealistic as her getting away with what she actually did was. I don't think I have a problem with two twisted-up women being the worst of the worst because it just feels more like egotistical, blinded, power-hungry people in real-life and less like females being singled out. As has been said before, there are a LOT of women in the show; there are always bad people participating and cooperating, co-conspiring and climbing to the top in each societal nightmare. Serena Joy in particular was and is terrible in her blind arrogance and intelligence and her feeling of being part of the super special elite and entitled 'I'm better than you' Evangelical-ness that is the basis of Gilead. I also think the men getting away with what they do in Gilead is mostly a reflection of the rot that sociopathic and entitled persons are capable of. In Gilead and on this show in general they are completely unmasked. I'm older though and can relate and remember being basically skewered as a woman in so many ways, large and small, while growing up, and having it largely feel like it happened to all of us at the time.