American Gilead - Rights and Autonomy in 2019
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So RBG died and just as Renegade Cut said, Trump replaced her with an anti-choice judge, in this case, a woman from the same organization that directly inspired The Handmaid's Tale.
You can’t make this stuff up…
And now you see ultra red states implementing abortion bans and trying to charge women with murder if they cross a state line to get one.
Yeah.. you can't make this stuff up. Life in America got crazy fan fiction real in 2022.
Welp this aged interestingly, kind of obvious what they setup.
To be honest, I haven’t been able to watch ‘the Handmaid’s Tale’ since the end of the first season. It was masterful filmmaking, but it just feels too close to home right now. It barely even feels fictional anymore.
You did better than me. I didn’t make it through the trailer for the first season. It had a rape scene in the trailer, and I noped out of there and haven’t been able to go back.
I’ve heard it’s good, and even necessary media for our times. I just can’t bring myself to watch it.
@20:50 Welp...
Thank you for explicitly including trans men - we're so often left out of discussions of reproductive health (and a lot of other discussions, tbh; people sorta forget we exist). It just... it meant so much to me to hear "their numbers are relatively small, but that does NOT make them insignificant." Thank you, comrade.
That feeling when you’ve been making Gilead jokes for years but now you and your American friends aren’t laughing anymore.
It is the same thing with 1984, the movie Network, the book Fahrenheit 451. All of them seemed like dystopian fantasies. Now they seem like warnings that have been ignored until it is too late.
Yes. Yes I know that feeling...
2022 is even scarier now with ultra red states taking away women's rights.
Im really REALLY hoping voters in Nov 22 aren't ignoring the 5 alarm fire bell ringing.
The one complaint I have about protesting as a handmaid is that it’s too quiet. Politicians shouldn’t be able to walk by and ignore the protest. They should be forced to confront it.
I always wanted a strict pro-life defendant to explain why a bodily autonomy argument doesn’t cover abortion. If my daughter needed just a small transfusion of my blood, and I didn’t want to give it to her, all lawmakers and doctors believe in my ability to withhold my blood. My daughter would die, and no doctor would force me to save her. Why is that so different before she is born?
Erin Bailey
Because this only applies to female bodies.
If cis men became pregnant, this would not be an argument. This is how prejudice works.
Tragically, you have parents who apply that thinking to vaccines. They willfully are denying children these miracles of medicine out of sheer stubbornness.
Nathan Seper Well that’s not the same thing. Your child being vaccinated has nothing to do with your bodily autonomy. It has more to do with a being a legal guardian of a child and making decisions for them, which I have very mixed feelings about tbh.
I get what you’re trying to say, but that’s a terrible argument. I don’t mean this in bad faith. Your argument I not helping your cause (and your cause is the same as my cause).
1) Your daughter is a living person, not a fetus
2) Donating blood is not nearly as invasive as being pregnant and giving birth is. It doesn’t affect your physical, mental, emotional, and social health nearly as much. It doesn’t affect your life, your future, and your dreams. It doesn’t have stigma attached to it. Being forced to give big can destroy nearly every aspect of your being. It’s not the same.
I can't give an answer. but I can tell you there are way to many reasons for abortion. more reasons then doctors. but we never come to a reasonable conclusion.
The bit at the end about RBG’s death being just, really, really bad for bodily autonomy hits different now that it’s actively happening.
Much much MUCH worse now that ultra red states will now charge you with murder if you cross a state line to get an abortion where it's still legal.
This aged prophetically
My female doctor refuses to let me tie my tubes (because you’re never going to have sex!) I was sexually assaulted recently and although there wasn’t penetration, I’m still terrified of becoming pregnant.
That's super fucked and awful
Religious fundamentalists and right-wing extremists, are a danger to concepts such as empathy, critical thinking, and basic human decency. I'm not some corporate liberal or right-wing lemming. Simply an individual, calling it out for what it is. Thank you for the video.
Are they really pro-life or more like pro-cranking out kids willy nilly?
@@TheOwl
At the end of the day it's all about power and control. In this modern and (relatively) more equal society, pregnancy stands as one of the remaining few things that still allow men some power over women (in a way and let my explain). Conservatives still prescribe to the idea that a woman's fundamental purpose is taking care of children. So when a woman gives birth, she must dedicate her time and energy to caring for the child which makes her reliant on her husband to provide money and shelter. This reliance is what creates the power imbalance that conservative men crave. By allowing women their own autonomy, the power imbalance in that particular scenario ceases (or diminishes greatly) and we all know how conservative men feel about losing power. It's less about the life of the baby, and more about how conservatives can use that baby to control women, because if they truly were so pro-life, why do those same folks hate the idea of medical care for all, social welfare programs, and increased funding for education?
Thank you
Thank you for that comment. Since encountering religious fundamentalism, I have wondered about my labeling it inhuman when its adherents claim it is the byword for human decency. I simply couldn't understand how I could see the opposite of what they are seeing. I have come to the conclusion that despite its brutality, religion carries on securing a place of honor because it is male and men sponsor it. Very sad.
@@J-manli You struck 2 birds with 1 stone. Exposed the patriarchy's secret desire for control over woman by wanting to pin her down with a baby and pretending that this is pro-life. And then you again exposed its disregard for the baby's welfare and provision to survive in the brutal world. This it all up. I gave up a while ago when I realised how empty, toxic and heartless the patriarchy brigade is when I asked how the baby and its mother are to survive should something happen to the "provider". One shamelessly said there is a social welfare system for such situations. Ah well.....
The cruelty Rome inflicted on others, it inevitably turned against it's own citizens. These are the signs of an old dying Empire, we didn't ask to be born amidst one but yet here we are witnessing it before our own very eyes.
I honestly have that fear too. America is facing severe problems, yet the leaders think the "REAL" problem is a woman exercising over her own uterus. Goddamn, that is completely insane.
@@timothymclean I think it'll be somewhere between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the British Empire.
The book's author stated very clearly that she only included things that already have happened in humanity's history. I am not even from the Americas and found so many parallels to the current policing society does concerning fertility of women.
America's stance on reproductive rights sounds eerily similar to the Middle East they oh so deride.
Even better, even wahhabi fundamentalists say abortion is fine before the second trimester.
AMERICAN TALIBAN!
People need to quit pushing their BS religion on everyone else.
I still say that if men could get pregnant as well, abortion would be a constitutional right. And you cant be "pro-life" if you dont even care about the kids who dont have homes, parents, are struggling to eat etc etc.
Do you think they care about the welfare of these children? They want them poor so they can exploit them. They know that if the mothers wait until they are sure the children will have a decent life, then the children won't be easy to exploit. Simple maths.
You ain't lying
Yeah then they out law homelessness. So where do these people go? They don't. You wanna know what happens? You can guess. But .. they die.
"Don't tone women."
THANK YOU.
This is why many anti-choice people don't understand WHY abortion needs to be available. They have no idea, nor are they interested in, why some women NEED this option. They have no interest in learning that women have their own plans and their own reasons and their own happenings in their own lives. You do not get to force a woman to have a baby when there is no family support for her, when having that child will cement the cycle of poverty in that family, when a woman's mental health is at risk, when there is abuse that cannot be ignored, when single mothers are vilified as selfish or irresponsible, when the government programs that do cling to existence are under massive attack by the same people who want to force women to have a baby they cannot support!
If you cannot understand that other people have different circumstances than you, then you cannot claim to have empathy or compassion.
Don't tone women.
Because you have no idea how severe things are in her life.
What they want is exactly that cycle of poverty in families so that they can exploit the children who they want born in those families. There is a method in their madness.
"Not to get morbid but it could get worse if RBG..."
Yeah. The system is functioning as intended. :(
Thank you so much for this! I'm so sick of men, specifically white men trying to say women are exaggerating when comparing our current state in America to The Handmaid's Tale. Nostalgia Critic even made a comment about this saying "we have a long way to go before we get to the Handmaid's Tale" when there are huge signs that we're already there
Well, Doug sucks, so, yeah.
Renegade Cut Very true! Ha ha
I'm here watching this April 2022.
I really hope you've made another video after what Oklahoma and others are implementing this year.
Thank you for this video! As a German woman, I have been watching the recent developments with horror... In Germany, abortion is still illegal, but you don't get punished if you do. Right wing parties are gaining traction in Germany as well, and a future like this doesn't seem far away for us either... I just feel extremely sorry for all the women in those states where those anti-abortion bills are being passed. I hope, those laws don't make it through the Supreme Court.
Whoa, didn't know it was illegal in Germany! Thought they were more progressive.
That's a shock. I believed Germany out of all places would be pro women for a long time. Well I suppose you underestimated those parties. Coming from the place where political parties use community vs community to gain support and then implement their retarded ideals, i cN see that happening around the world. Pose wars on countries, displace the civilians, accept a minor number for labor, inflate the data and push the conservative citizens to fear, shape up a common enemy community who is different than us, spreaf the hate, rise and boom...you are now the another version of the same community you obliterated.
This aged better than I wish it would have.
It's honestly terrifying for me to watch what is happening. I'm a US citizen but I'm currently studying at uni in Canada and I'm honestly torn on what I'll do once I graduate. A part of me wants to try to go back to the US and organize and protest while the other half of me is scared and thinks it would be safer just to remain in Canada, although I'm not even entirely sure that's safe from how politics have been going here as well. It's hard sometimes not to be morbid or feel like women are fighting a losing battle and it's honestly sickening to hear men act like we're being overly emotional when we say that we're afraid for our rights.
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Canada seems like a pretty decent place (most of the time) from what I've heard. If I were young and in your shoes, I'd look for a path to Canadian citizenship.
I'm Canadian so I'm biased but I feel safer overall in Canada by a lot and for a lot of reasons.
I don't think you should despair. To say women are fighting a losing battle is not true. We should fight all the more. Giving birth cannot be the all and be all. Bringing a baby into the world is not the child's play that some men think it is. There need to be an inexhaustible supply of resources to ensure that the child will have a decent life and not struggle. Outside that, its plain immoral to birth it. Also, men are not eternal and they also have shorter lives than women so all the more reason for women to fight on because we are the one who need more resources to fund the long lives. All the very best to you. Stay strong.
They care more about the fœtus than the baby anyway.
This desperately needs to be shown in classrooms
ESE Teacher here, I gotchu
this is all the reason why we need to abolish this system. These lawmakers were biding their time until this exact moment. The Courts are align with them, there is petitioning the system, they do not care. They never really have.
I remember when the TRAP laws started. There were some saying they weren’t too worried- abortion is a constitutional right! They can’t possibly get too far...
I saw it differently. I saw it as the antichoice preparing for a big long fight, getting their weapons in place for an even bigger battle.
I’m not happy to have been proven right.
Those in power only care about their power. The State cannot coexist with a true democracy, and indirect democracy is just intelligent oligarchy.
The problem is capitalism!
To me all these laws are less about the preservation of life and more about the control of women, both of their bodies and their behaviors. Punishing women for daring to have sex. I don't personally believe abortion is right - but I am Christian, and my own religion says that it is NOT my right to judge or control others, or to look down on them for their decisions. So it angers me that these people in various state legislatures dare to pass such terrible, restrictive, dangerous laws that will only result in women having to look to black market, illegal, dangerous alternatives.
If these state lawgivers actually cared, as they claim, about the life of the mother and child, then every penny of the money being pulled from abortion clinics should be going to pre and post natal care, childcare, schools and other amenities. There should be a heavy crack down on deadbeat dads who don't pay for the upkeep of their children and the hammer should come down on rapists, garnishing their wages to support any children that they sire with their crime.
But no. This is about controlling women's behaviour, discouraging them from 'immoral' acts, and considering how some men (and women!) will bend over backwards to excuse the actions of young men who sexually harass and even rape women, it is the most disgusting of double standards.
Exactly it infuriates me that the conservative Christians around me don't understand that these politicians don't really care about these women and the babies they are being forced to birth. These are the same politicians that actively punish people who are not wealthy for having children by killing social programs to help parents. If they really wanted to lower abortions they would take rape victims seriously and not reinforce "boys will be boys" which is an excuse many conservatives near me use when a male is sexually inappropriate. They finally need to start funding pre school, school, matarinety leave, not make it so expensive to have give birth in a hospital, create programs to make birth control and sterilization more accessible etc.
Watching this a couple of days after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and already it looks like Trump is going fill the vacancy with someone who'll try to overturn Roe Vs Wade
Boy do I have news for you
Thank you so much for saying "people" instead of "women" when talking about pregnancy, and including trans men and non-binary people.
watching this after amy coney barretts confirmation is chilling
So about that worst case scenario where RBG doesnt live through the trump administration.....
Thank you for mentioning trans men on the topic. TBF you could have also mentioned nonbinary people in that bit but I'm honestly so grateful someone bothered to bring up transmen on a topic like this.
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Aa same
I wouldn't be surprised if some fundamentalists see this as a welcome side effect that will force trans people to conform to their ideas of what somebody born female should be like.
"1984" gets used in increasingly irrelevant situations though. I saw it referenced multiple times over things as meager as Steven Crowder getting demonetized recently.
admittedly this had little to do with the actual video, so to clarify:
if these people were actually pro-life they wouldn't be affiliated with so much bigotry, they wouldn't be supporting neoliberal capitalism that has messed up our quality of life, they wouldn't excuse an imperialist government whenever it invades a foreign nation and they definitely wouldn't be limiting the rights of pregnant people for something that doesn't even have a developed nervous system.
Also, I see it a lot from conservatives, referencing progressive or leftist ideas.
Orwell would be turning in his grave! He was a socialist (of the libertarian bent- it’s why he didn’t like the Soviets much). But he was a proud leftist. And to see conservatives using his name in order to fight against people he’d consider his comrades... it’s just sad.
@@katherinemorelle7115
Orwell devoted an entire portion to his book about how passionate he was about democratic socialism despite of the disagreements he had with other leftists. Sad how much he seems to be used by the most illiterate people today.
Being an American is a more frightening prospect all the time. This genuinely makes me sick when I think about it. Regressive isn't strong enough to describe these barbaric laws. Thank you as always for covering these hard topics.
Came back to watch this again in 2022 after Roe was overturned... sad to say you were spot on ☹
Making something illegal doesn't make it go away, it just drives it underground and makes it more dangerous, which ends up costing us all lives and money.
Dude you should have so many more subscribers, your content is fantastic. A well written, insightful video essay, good work.
Thank you for this. It made me cry, but it’s worth it.
I’m Australian. A Queenslander, to be specific. And it was only last year that my state legalised abortion. So until 2018, abortion was a criminal act in my state. It’s still a crime in New South Wales.
The opposition party had a policy of introduction abortion into Medicare (our universal healthcare system) and making it so that women could get abortions from public hospitals, instead of having to pay hundreds or thousands to private clinics. It would also mean that poor women, and women in regional areas would be able to access abortion- something very difficult even in states where it’s legal.
Some women have to get up the money to travel thousands of kilometres (because Australia is a very large country), pay for accomodation in a major city, and then also pay a private clinic for that abortion. Having hospitals offer terminations would cut most of that travel down to less than a quarter (because it’s easier to travel to a regional town than a major city), and also even cut accomodation costs, as well as the cost of the abortion itself.
But Labor lost. And so, abortion is still difficult and expensive in most of the country. And while you can access abortion in NSW (and Qld prior to legalisation), it’s via a common law workaround, and also means that many doctors aren’t willing to perform abortions because it is still a grey area legally.
There’s also the fact that our conservative government LOVES America. They want to take us down the American path of healthcare and other public services (by stealthily privatising things). And our Prime Minister is a Pence type. Exceedingly religious, and outright anti-choice.
Australians watch what is happening in the States with fear. I stand in solidarity with my sisters and trans brothers all over the world who are unable to access reproductive healthcare. Who are jailed for decades for having miscarriages. Where children who have been raped are forced to carry pregnancies at extremely tender ages. And I stand in solidarity with Americans, who can see their rights disappearing, who are looking south to Latin America to see their future.
I’m so sorry.
I also want to note that I realise that American people don’t have free choice now- not even in their most liberal states or cities. They don’t have universal healthcare, affordable education, a social security system that actually provides for families, affordable childcare, or a loveable minimum wage.
There would have been millions who chose abortion simply because they knew they could not financially afford a(nother) child. And that’s not free choice. (It’s also not something the antichoice conservatives seem to care all that much about, funnily enough).
But I recognise that for people to have a truly free choice, these things must be available. I think that as pro-choice activists, we must fight for these things, as well as for things like affordable contraception and medically accurate and holistic sex and relationships education. Because people cannot choose freely without these things- and that’s what we are supposed to be about... Choice. Access to abortion alone isn’t good enough, if people are forced to choose abortion because of material conditions, that’s not a free choice.
Omg, this is an extremely necessary video for people to see. And thank you for mentioning trans people! They so often get left out of this conversation, and that's not fair. Any reproductive rights denied to cis women are reproductive rights denied to trans and nonbinary people with uteruses too.
The show was so depressing I haven't watched the second season. Same with Man in the High Castle or any show about the personal lives of the wealthy, they all hit too close. Great video and ty for not using the anti-choice side's terminology of advocating life.
Well, Roe v. Wade had been overturned. Wake up people. Anything is possible.
Everything I was worried about as cis-fem poc BEFORE we elected this garbage heap as president has been coming to pass. What a powerless feeling, I tell you. 😫
"Things could get worse if RBG..." hits differently now.
I literally got chills
Protests aren't enough. History has never been changed by pacifism.
@Al Worthington freedom is worth dying for. Also you can learn how to use a gun without buying into the culture.
@Al Worthington that's why the SRA exists
Walter Lopez That’s a bit of a stretch. If you’re from Poland it’s fairly known that the Soviet regime was ended fairly peacefully through protests and gentle resistance, while most violent Polish uprisings ended up making things worse for us, Warsaw Uprising being probably the biggest failure for a multitude of reasons. I’m not saying that violent protests should never happen, but I don’t like dismissing pacifism.
We are indeed. In Italy as well now more than ever before; we have the law but also doctors that can legally choose not to perform abortion on you due to their religion. It's 85% of them in all the country, very difficult to have info and the procedure itself, especially if you live in the south or far from big cities like Milan, Bologna, Turin ecc. This video is precious, thanks!
Same here in Germany. It goes further that a doctor is not allowed to "advertise" that they do abortions. This includes a note on their website among other medical procedures they peform or information about abortions in general (on the other hand shitheads are allowed to spread misinformation about abortions). Some of the german states have public lists with doctors doing abortions. In others you might have to drive a couple of hours. Also, mandatory waiting period after mandatory consultation not at your doctor. Also, on the books, it's still illegal, it just does not carry a penalty under certain circumstances.
Ate is Ate oh my god, I didn't know that! That's horrible indeed.
I can’t believe this is happening in 2019 and in USA the land of the free
@@Rime_in_Retrograde Exactly. Thank you.
Only the rich are free. You are bound or limited by the opportunities and finances available to you, and unfortunately it’s the rich that are the ones influencing the proposals and decision-making.
It's 2022 SCOTUS set to overturn Roe. It begins. Very glad I can't have children anymore
Thanks for the necessarily sobering food for thought as usual, Leon. That Game of Thrones video is going to be quite the trip.
The people who misunderstand comparisons to 1984 also usually do so willingly
Prescience is sometimes a heavy burden. I swear for the last four years, my heart dropped every time RBG's name popped up in my news feed. Now all that's left is to watch in horror as the court prepares to dismantle every bit of post Civil rights progress we've made...
How prescient. And behold! The Republic of Gilead is nigh.
Still mad about Dr. Blasey Ford's treatment, makes me always hope that one day justice can be found
Welp. Watching this in 2023. 💀
How can you live like that American women?
Great video, RC. I am slowly but carefully creating my own video/essay in support of reproductive rights.
If you don't terribly mind, I will probably point people to your video on this subject alongside my video.
I don't have a following but it seems to be a good idea to me. Ciao!
That's totally fine.
I was like "oh cool recent video about recent events" and then saw the date. God bless America I guess
With regards to building codes, the reason hospitals are built differently than clinics is not necessarily due to the work that is done there, but the fact that hospitals are considered to be "post-disaster buildings". This means in case of a, well, disaster, the hospital needs to still be functional and can be used as a refuge or shelter, while clinics do not. Post-disaster buildings also include fire and stations, and power plants. Schools usually fall in a "middle" category, as they might not need to function after a disaster, but they are often used as shelters.
Looking back, as we teeter on the edge of losing bodily autonomy for women only, the Senate refusing to codify women's rights, including the ERA. These are dark, dark days for women in America.
Representative democracy is not democracy
The State is only interested in self-preservation and must be abolished
Well....
Welp...who's ready to become a handmaid?
Extremely well done analysis of an important topic and body autonomy.
Question for Renegade Cut; do you get any money if I have TH-cam premium? Outside Patreon, that is.
I am aware of TH-cam being an unreliable source of income, at best, was just wondering if Premium do anything for the channels I watch.
Yeah, some.
and so RC mostly called it.
I really, really wish you hadn't been right about Ginsburg. *sigh* Goddammit...
And now it's actually happening sadly.
this ages disturbingly well
Trump appointed 3 judges to the supreme court, everyone forgets the first one.
Please check the date. This was made in 2019. Trump didn't appoint a third justice until 2020. I didn't forget the first appointment. I didn't include the **third** because it didn't exist yet. I don't have a time machine. ;)
This is much scarier to watch in October 2020 with the Amy Coney Barrett hearings happening right now
4 years later I still can’t believe this shit worked 🤦🏾♂️
The closing statement gave me goosebumps. Well said. Then again, literally all here was well said as far as I can tell~
Shout out to those also being recommended this video in the year 2022
Sounds like it might be time to flush the supreme court. Inact some legislation or amendment to allow something along the lines of an anti-trust or impeachment clause...you know whatever is more appropriate. I don't know, maybe someone smarter than me has a better solution. In fact, they probably do.
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How's this for Pro-Life? Hosea 13:16 "They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.”
I think the quality of these videos is really good. I feel like your flow and competency in your narration of these videos is fantastic.
Such a clear insight into a socio-political happenings.
Please don't stop. I really hope that you get more views and people share these videos on their Facebook pages so more people can be exposed to your insight.
"There will be no stopping Trump if RGB dies..."
*Crys in 2020*
I'm glad you mentioned trans men in this but don't forget there are also non-binary people who are affected by this as well.
I'm watching this after RBG is dead. Also, Roberts is not our friend. he basically said just give me the right case and he would do it.
It's amazing that so many people still believe that there isn't a threat and that nothing will change anyway
And to think that ACB was literally in the cult that inspired the handmaid's tale
Hopefully looking forward to a follow up on this given the turnover of Roe v Wade. We’re in sad dangerous times …
This is universal tbh. Not being a men hater, but let's reverse it around and let's make it mandatory to snip it. Won't happen because organized religions and government has way too many men with their advantages. Lol even the average men would suffer with unplanned fatherhood.
Watching this in January 2023...eeek...
I wish I could like this video a million times. Thank you for using your platform to talk about this!!
Well this is just sad to watch 3 years on
It's so hard not to feel hope and powerless, but we can't forget that there are people who care and won't go down without a fight. we are stronger together and the guillotine is stronger than politician
this video just hits different today
I just...
How much time do we have?
Watching this with the whole Texas shit... this is scary
This aged like wine. I wish it hadn't.
I blame Obama for not making Merrick Garland and about 20 other judicial, recess appointments. For years #MoscowMitch had been slow rolling his appointments, many federal benches were down several Judges because of this. Obama either ignorantly wanted to be "bipartisan" or was worried about his legacy. Fact is, the recess appointments would have stood, in large part because there is precedent but also because the Supreme Court traditionally would hesitate taking any case that dealt with Legislature procedures. Do National Republicans and their statehouse minions deserve the lions share of the blame? Of course! However, be warned. The National Democratic Party continues and uses their donations to field an intramural flag football team to compete with the Republican NFL squad, being out maneuvered, overpowered and hoping the referee will make a call. While not realizing there is no referee, and it is entirely incumbent on them to assemble a better team to play the game before them.
would love an updated version of this with the added context of jan 6th and roe being overturned
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October 2020. Trump might be able to push a third judge. Everyone who even is just moderate on these issues needs to avoid 4 more years of this shit. Because if he even has one, this is no longer an "over reaction". This will be a reality. Fucking vote blue, even if you hate some of the policies because what he is doing is literally going to end the damn republic.
Good video as always Leon.
I watched both the movie and season 1 of the tv show and I've read and like Atwoods books. There are many things that the show gets rights such as how patriarchy is perpetuated by men and upheld by women. However, there are lots of things that are incredibly problematic including as many have noted like the "torture porn". Most people have commented that its very popular with white female audiences precisely because it centres a white woman thus viewed through "spectre of white womanhood". Others have also pointed out that for African women this may be a cautionary tale because enslaved women were raped, forced to breed children and had their women taken away from them to be sold. I don't plan on watching the rest of the series.
This is sooooo GODDAMN awful. America, please don't be stupid anymore. Vote Democrat no matter what!
Every day I love your channel more and more. And it already was my favourite for 2+ years
Watching this in 2021. Still terrifying.
RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg
This is becoming far more relevant today. No wonder the algorithm gods bestowed this video to me.
a soberingly well presented video, and one that hits close to home for me. as a nb afab person living in a state that just enacted one of these laws (georgia) it feels incredibly difficult to even face the world some days. this shit is deeply frightening. the disgust and rage i feel toward the people writing these laws are massive.
Me watching this 10-8-2020 👁👄👁 we’re fricked
Thank you for the insightful commentary as always and I also really appreciate you not excluding trans men from the issue of reproductive Rights.