some thoughts/theories for TT - spoilers obviously
a couple things i noticed that i haven’t seen anyone talk about yet
- i think Becka is going to be a “gender traitor”. she is so obviously in love with Agnes/Hannah and that’s why she doesn’t want a husband. that’s also why she acts so disgusted when hearing about men having hair when all the girls are talking about shirtless men
- the parallel of the bees to the people in Gilead - as Daisy explains how she ends up in Gilead, the pearl girls are beekeeping. they subdue the bees and consume their hard work (honey/wax). just like Gilead does to women, especially handmaids. idk, i’m sick right now but hopefully someone gets me lol
- as a survivor of CSA, the scenes with the grown men lusting over literal 14 year olds is disgusting. even when we see commander judd’s house and how excited penny is to be a wife and head of a household, it’s still juxtaposed by the fact that her husband is probably old enough to be her father. the fact is these children are being forced to marry men old enough to be their father and subject to what is statutory rape…. it’s been a while since i finished THT and i forgot how triggering it can be