For all of my Carrie fans, do ya’ll have any worldbuilding headcanons for how women/girls with the telekinetic gene would be viewed by society? Do ya’ll think they would get discriminated against, especially after learning about the Black Prom tragedy?
I personally feel like it would depend on how the government treats them and what kind of rights or laws would get regulated around telekinesis. I know that in the book, scientists and medical researchers investigating telekinesis were working on isolating the gene for telekinesis, and basically they were going to do mandatory testing for the TK gene so they could find TK positive girls and execute them or something. Basically a genocide against TK women, which I think is a crazy terrible idea, but realistic.
Telekinesis would be very empowering for women/girls in a largely patriarchal society run by corrupt men. TK women would be considered a danger to the patriarchy, so I could definitely see the military or a bunch of corrupt men trying to kill as many TK girls as possible. Mind you, in the book it was said that they’re going to be testing on children who first enter kindergarten. So the government would be doing a genocide against a bunch of little girls all because of an ability that they didn’t ask for.
But it could also be different for other countries too, especially when you factor in culture, laws, and religion. In some countries, TK women could be seen as goddesses or even blessed by God with “divine power”. I can also see there being organizations or communities where women with telekinetic ability can join and have a safe space away from the dangers of the outside world. I imagine Carrie White would be a very important figure not only in history, but also in the TK community too. A lot of abuse victims themselves would likely see Carrie as a hero, especially feminist hero.
But I would love to hear other people’s takes on this. One thing I like about the upcoming Carrie series is that they’re going to expand the worldbuilding and explore the fact that there’s other girls/women out there with TK abilities like Carrie who have to hide their identity from the general public.
