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Currently on medical leave waiting for baby two to make an appearance and have too much Reddit time on my hands.

My husband is cooking meals, doing drop off and pick up, and helping keep the house running. Is he perfect? No, I do all the admin work and he is incredibly messy. But he stepped up.

But for all those women who are drowning because Bob or Nigel can’t be bothered to miss drinks or golf to help - they’re doing it on purpose. They want to sabotage you. This includes inside and outside of the workplace.

If they’re making you feel small, refusing to give you time to relax, refusing to give you space to grow in your career, it is deliberate. They want to make you feel small and they enjoy it.

Honestly? If you were in the US, the regime murdered them.

The book and the show combined were pretty explicit on this point - Gilead started by killing an insane amount of people. There’s a scene when Serena and Fred drive through wilderness that used to be an old exurb, that’s only accomplished by significantly culling the population.

I see a lot of people saying they’d probably be econopeople, but I think most of us would not make it that far. My interpretation was always that Gilead purposefully and significantly depopulated anyone who wasn’t explicitly useful or directly aligned with the Sons of Jacob. There’s a reason Lawrence only told June she could save five women from Chicago out of hundreds.