Four Times The Handmaids Were Complete BADASSES | The Handmaid’s Tale 

Stop overreacting

Sure heard that alot during the Trump years

EXACTLY I JUST---

Oh my god, yes! Brought me to tears!

Raised over her head like Lady Liberty 🗽

That and the fact that she pretty much gave the handmaid's a chance to run.

Women like you are to blame for this glut of shit "entertainment".

Not to hard guys.

She’s an icon, she’s a legend, and she IS the moment….now com’on now

It's not so much a joke. It's heartbreaking since she's 'developmentally regressed', (possibly) pre, and post Gilead, and Handmaids training and it's trauma. 'disabled', part of why everyone especially Aunt Lydia had a soft spot for her. And she may not be truly able to conceptualise in that moment, that her friends where about (supposed) to actually kill her. That her mind told her she'll get punished with rocks but after that, another day. Like a figurehead of just how bad Gilead was. Aunt Lydia called them girls to infantalise them, but Janine, she was the infantile girl.

She’s my absolute favourite 💕

I think her losing an eye was her breaking point. Remember how defiant Janine was when she first got to the Red Center?

So true. I want Janine to make it out of this alive and FREE.

I think the only time she won't will be her choice.

Yes! My only disappointment about the character is that the producers failed to her making her returnin' to Gilead after that bombing that splitted her from June. And about June, I know she's the protagonist, but it should share the protagonism among the other characters, like Emily, for example. Emily was too misused.

Jeanine deserves her happy ending with her daughter. I am hoping at least she gets it at the end of the series.

I think it would have been powerful to mirror when Janine had her first baby taken from her, dropping the rocks and kneeling by her in a “protective”circle. The guards would have to end them all or none of them

God, in my opinion, is already the invention that was created to justify all evil aso. Which is not to say that there is no higher power. But the Buddhists, for example, have simply not given a character to this power that serves the ego and makes all evil sanctified. I am also beginning to believe that Jesus was a Buddha whose story was not to be understood physically, but psychologically. An attempt to explain with the scourging and crucifixion to somehow describe how it felt to be enlightened. And what caused it. The Buddhists also hold that there is not just one, but several, and that it is theoretically possible for everyone to reach this state. So quite simple, another place in the world, other cultures, myths, another attempt and corresponding parables to describe what happened.

Margaret Atwood was careful in the book to only include actions and attitudes that have precedent in human history.

Yep! People forget what Afghanistan and Iran looked like 40-50 years ago vs what they look like today. It is 100% possible for a "civilized" society to fall completely back into dark-ages style zealotry, theocratic tyranny, and barbarity. Let the wrong ones have too much power and this can be very real.

The change is slow…so slow we don’t see it right away. All changes to liberty are ‘justified’ by someone until all liberty is gone. In the U.S.A women’s liberties are being rusticated today…we are walking back in time. All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

Iranian revolution comes to mind first. ​@@Olive_O_Sudden

RU-vid is super oversensitive about that sorta thing these days.

She ran over his head if i remember correctly

@@silverblade357 It's okay your videos are awesome

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Too graphic for RU-vid

Good point 👍

Agreed! Martyrdom at its finest!

They didn't draw attention or ruin her plan either ;)

You are 100% right. Of glen was a badass and went out in the most fitting and empowering way possible but j really wish we got to spend more time with her. She is an icon. Period.

Exactly! One of the most recent moments just happened this last season, too!

😂 women can't be "badass". They're girlies not intimidating 🤭

Something similar would've been a nice add. But they don't follow the actual bible!

So many layers. You are correct. Then again, for these women having faced bondage, terror, and trauma in the name of religion, I can also see this as their own act of defiance. For just one moment, they seek no approval from a god or a man but create their own justice, acting and speaking for themselves.

I thought the exact same thing. It would have been so much better to twist their own beliefs on them by drawing from the Bible itself.

The Scriptures are used by whoever is in power to suit their own end. That’s all they’ve ever been intended for.

@@MrSparkula You're like 10% correct.

What repressive regime?

@@jeannerogers7085 in the show. The handmaids live in a society that oppresses women's rights.

@@jeannerogers7085 You think Handmaids being treated as breeding stock is not a repressive regime?

If it weren't for a worldwide lack of fertility, it might have happened.

@@terrib627 Then it's easier to NOT kill children, who will be raised together in a protected space........something the US isn't particularly good at avoiding.

That would be too kind. They'd want to have the commanders swinging at the end of a rope, give them a taste of their own medicine

Horribly realistic though. Just look at North Korea. We know and yet…

Amen

Where? Please point out where in the world it's like this without exaggerating, please.

@@billbombshiggy9254 you’re just too dense to understand and that’s ok, but we could sit here and talk about the very messed up abortion laws that are currently going on that this work is inspired by. Or the fact we as woman have no agency over our body in society or the justice system were shamed to a heavy extent and called very derogatory terms only for woman

@@billbombshiggy9254 have you ever heard of the middle east? I don't know if you heard why were people protesting in Iran. Also Afghanistan and Syria are such a wonderful place for women

@@irenepetroni oh, I didn't know that they forced women to have rich men's babies, and then sent them away to someone else. Oh that's right. They don't.

@@nursemain3174 we don't? Funny, I wouldn't trade places with a man for any amount of money. Oh no, some states won't let us kill our babies! IM LITERALLY A SLAVE. Here's a novel idea. Don't have sex if you don't want babies. It's easy. See, when I was younger, I kept popping them out because I wouldn't stop having sex (I'm no whore. They all have the same father.) But then I finally stopped and got sterilized. I actually didn't want the youngest so I didn't kill it, but did the super easy responsible and not morally reprehensible thing, and gave him up for adoption. He's 17 now. I'm glad I didn't murder him for selfish needs.

But worse since we would be "worshiping" Orange Jesus.

It's Texas, you caught on.

Yes

It's Texas! Enjoy your stay.

It's Intense but a freaking good drama

Don't. 99% of the time it's fucking boring as shit with awful character development. Everyone is one dimensional with one motivating factor. The only ones who are actually kind of deep and more than one dimensional are Serena and Lydia. Everyone else is lame. Emily is gay and that's her motivation. She along with June just totally forget they have spouses and go off whoring around and falling in love with other people (especially Emily) when they should be worried about getting to their families.

Serena too

Lawrence is worse than all those. He made Gilead and with cold indifference he made sure it kept running.

​@nikrose5229 Yes, Serena the sneaky one. She plays that innocent wife at the same time she herself was part of creating that world. She had Tuello convinced that she only did those things because she was an abused wife. Even in the flashbacks she was very independent and outspoken. By end of the latest season she not only had her baby, but her freedom from the mess she help create. Like if anyone that doesn't deserve the happiness its her.

Good analogy.

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That would give them a martyr, they don't want handmaid's to think about who the real enemy is.

Pretty much. He wants to be worshipped.

Who cares? Crazy is as crazy does.

@@LittleBitofHopeToo2518I was being ironic - sort of like your choice to call yourself "LittleBitofHopeToo2518", whilst proclaiming "Who cares?" Perhaps "LittleBitofApathy2518" might suit you better.

@@matthewchapman57lol you got them good 😂

@@Seldomalwayslol No. You got me good. You deserve a cookie.

Didn't you see the scene where they kidnapped the nuns.

Hmm... No. Catholicism is against abortion, which means intentionally ending a life of an unborn human. It has nothing to do with hating women, just as preventing parents from killing their born offspring is not hating anyone, but rather making sure every human life is respected and protected. We are absolutely against rape, sexual slavery, forced surrogacy. We don't want women to be unable to read or uneducated, they aren't any less valuable than men in God's eyes

No. It's MAGAts

Looks like the propaganda is working.

@@JDT-xj1tw Huh..? Since the end of Roe v Wade Red states immediately went to ban abortion and make life harder for women in a wide variety of ways. Thousands of women have become pregnant through rape in Texas and other Red states and can't get abortions.

No. It's really, really good.

Read the book first.

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@@camilledamianoffzoco5260 Loads of innocent handmaids died. Plus, kidnapping children and sending them to a foreign country against their will didn't sit right with me.

​@@animopedlive1160 U do realize that these children were kidnapping victims being returned to their families ryt?

Ok pedo

Actually it very much is based on reality.

@@lovelyhoney3334 So says the misandrist feminist.

@@calinasagilitypartner4444 Whose reality? It never happened.

"you couldnt pay men to marry and have children" you just proved how relevant this show is to culture since the men in the show felt similarly thus creating a system in which women are oppressed in order to appease men- similar to the last few thousands of years of human culture in the real world- you know with women not being even allowed to work until less than 100 years ago and still the affects and deeply ingrained patriarchy affects every aspect of society: just look at sex crime stats, 97% of reported crimes go unprosecuted by our justice system , the victims are everyone infants included, yet the perpetrators are mostly men... I mean i guess if you agree that if the sexes were swapped and everything is as it currently is you wouldnt claim their is a power imbalance?

Okay William lol

It is a show about the most extreme form of oppression of women and how horrible of a world this would be.

And it's speaking the truth now more than ever when America is stripping women's right away left-and-right isn't it? Afraid of facing the world you built?

Tell me you don't know anything about Iran without telling me you don't know anything about Iran.

@@pluckybellhop66 I didn’t know it was based on Iran. Where did you get that information? (Not trying to start a fight, I just love researching).

hahaha just stop.

Idiot democrats want this

What? MIGTOW is the future. You couldn’t pay men to marry and have children. Keep living some bs feminist nonsense.

*eyeroll*

The book was based exactly on what happened in Iran, in case anyone is wondering why this man's comment is so dangerously ignorant.

Everything you saw in this mini series has actually happened. Margaret Atwood, who wrote the novel The Handmaid's Tale, researched this. So it is reality, sorry you don't believe it.

@@pluckybellhop66 exactly it's usually the men in the comments bashing the show

scared?

Those of us who know what to look out for when America is literally headed towards this version of "society"

@@chubbybunny6975 consumer consuming, upset at society, consumer consume, proud warrior, consume and grow fat, society.

@@johnhertmen898 huh?

​@@johnhertmen898John...take your pills.