luna

HELL WORLD

the show tells us that men have class solidarity that transcends their racism and classism. that at the end of they day, they will do absolutely anything to ensure control of women.

all of the women were forced to do labour, the wives: emotional labour and mothering both the husband and child regardless of whether they wanted to be mothers or wives as well as sexual labour, women in the colonies: manual labour, the handmaids: reproductive labour, the women at jezebels: sexual slavery, the marthas: domestic labour, the aunts: they too are slaves who are forced to train women and children to take up different roles.

the whole point is that no woman has it good under patriarchy. when serena (wife) tried to talk to the council, they cut her finger off as a punishment for daring to suggest a minor change. when lydia (aunt) failed to brainwash june into submission, lydia was tortured for 18 days.

the men however kept telling women they should be lucky to have what they have. fred repeatedly told serena she should be thankful she has so much freedom unlike handmaids, meanwhile lawrence took june to a deportation centre and told her she should be lucky she gets to be a handmaid instead of being sent to the colonies. men kept pitting women against each other, to keep them from focusing on the male supremacy.

the show also emphasise how dispensable the women are and that if they ever step out of line they’ll be pushed into the worse category, like the wife who helped june was forced to be handmaid as punishment, while the handmaid who attacked the commander was sent to the colonies.

if you cannot even tell that all women suffer and all men enjoy male supremacy, we’re never making it out.

as much as i hate libfems and conservative women, i know we’re all in the same sinking ship.

it’s important to point out that it’s easier for privileged women to be anti-feminist, and easier for women who like their gender role to be anti-feminist, but it’s absurd that you think privileged women do not fear being forced into reproductive slavery.

and THEN when women dropped out, they started using incarcerated women as their guinea pigs, and then despite the fact that some scientists who participated in the original trials were like “uh i don’t think this is actually good, it’s making a lot of these women sick,” the pharmaceutical industry & fda were like  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and approved it for the general population anyways, without really warning women about the potential for all these negative side effects

and THEN researchers basically ceased to do any type of research on side effects like depression and decreased libido for 50 years, despite the fact that women were still complaining about them, and because there was no “hard evidence” of these side effects, a lot of doctors basically just assumed women were exaggerating or making it up. and that continued until the first major study of depression in women who take hormonal contraceptives was released just. this. year.

the puerto rico pill trials

the racist & sexist history of keeping side effects of birth controls secret

“it’s not in your head” striking new study links birth control to depression

the side effects of male birth control stopping drug trials reveals a disturbing sexism

male birth control shot prevents pregnancy, researchers call for further study to reduce risk of depression, other side effects

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