The Handmaid's Tale (& Updates)

Song: You Don't Own Me x Lesley Gore

(no spoilers because I'm on episode 3, so...)

So a few months ago, I finally gave in a upgraded my Hulu subscription. Game changer. So, first I binged Queen Sugar (brilliant, spectacular, heartbreaking), then I started working on Cupcake Wars (which is a great show if you like to critique professionals at their own craft for funsies), and a coworker suggested The Handmaid's Tale to me, which is a Hulu original.

I'm usually hesitant to 1) suggestions/recommendations of media because what if I hate it? Then you'll be mad that you shared your new favorite obsession with me and I was not impressed. 2) "originals" from things like Amazon, Hulu, Netflix...because it's like, why are you making your own things instead of providing me with things that I really want to watch and don't have access to? But sometimes those originals are great: Luke Cage, I Am Not Your Negro, I Love Dick, Dear White People, Making A Murderer, Black Mirror, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Beasts of No Nation...the list could continue and you can now tell that I am an avid binge-watcher of on-my-own-time television and movies.

But anyways, The Handmaid's Tale. This is a show based on a book by Margaret Atwood that I, admittedly, haven't read and maybe once I'm done watching the series will read. This is a show that everyone has been gushing about online and everywhere in life because of the election and political climate, etc, etc, etc. And the way it was described to me was "women are basically forced to have sex with men in prominent positions to repopulate the world after a serious infertility/birth rate problem" and "everything is based in traditional values" and "it's dystopian, but it takes place during the now" and "it's terrifying" and "dark."

And I said, "Seems pretty plausible to me." Because...well, um...that's what happened during slavery. Sure, women weren't named "Handmaids" and "Marthas" but black women were certainly being raped on a consistent basis by their masters and constantly under the scrutiny of their masters/master's wives and their "bastard" children could end up in any sort of situation depending on the master/master's wife and families were being split up and they were property and seen as objects, not humans and this was a thing that was happening during the *cough* two-hundred plus years of slavery.

So I don't understand why everyone is so shocked about a plot where women have no rights, when *inhale* that was a thing until the 20th century if we're going to be real about it.

Seems like a lifetime ago (literally), but in the grand scheme of things, it's pretty damn recent.

Anyways, this show is good. It's terrifyingly good, it's like: man what if the ****p administration really does fuck us all over and strip women of their rights and most men of their rights creating an even worse class system and we all basically end up in servitude of old white men who are trying to convert and control us all based on biased twisted and misinterpreted values of the new testament like how do we fight something like that do we just go with it or nah we have to resist or can we like all the other "developed" countries are shaking their heads at us now because our government is ass backwards but if you're hearing what I'm saying then you can totally see this happening too right and I guess I get why everyone who is watching is so upset because like when privileged people imagine themselves without privilege it must really spark some sort of panic or personal crisis but I'm just chilling and watching the show like the meme below and being like wow this could really be us in like ten years I should probably work out so I'm prepared to escape or fight or something but let me just eat one more cookie and get in one more episode before I start.

But I'm just saying.

*Updates*

Trying to get together a website so everyone can be happy and have access to my work, but if you feel like you don't want to know some things about me then you probably shouldn't read those things, tbh.

Also trying to get back into the groove of writing, but as you can see...I've been watching hella television because it's summer.

It's Gemini season and Beyonce Knowles-Carter had her twins (a boy and a girl) and I am anxiously awaiting any and all photos of the two once they appear. But gemini twins can you imagine? 😟🙏

SZA dropped an immaculate album, so basically no one bother me all summer and for the rest of the year because I don't have time for foolishness when I need to grind grind grind