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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something that I don't buy....Serena's mother. Giliad is still a very young "country" (Serena was instrumental in the movement that led to its founding) but we're supposed to buy that a woman in her 60s or early 70s has bought into the cult totally hook, line and sinker after living 50+ years as an American? I just don't buy it. I get that she's a shallow woman who loves gloating that her daughter is a powerful "celebrity" but I still don't believe she'd be so entrenched in their new nation. [/quote]

Google Southern Baptist and complementarianism. This is a thing and it's not at all surprising to me that Serena's mother is into this.  We had states passing laws against allowing transgendered people in bathrooms - in 2017/2018. An Alabama mayor called for gays to be killed last week - and he's still in office. How often do you hear prominent evangelical pastors like Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. publicly stating how persecuted they are.  There are conservatives all over social media that think feminism is evil and that gays have an agenda to turn children gay.  David French, who is thought of as a respectable, intelligent conservative voice was celebrating the total abortion bans recently passed - including the one that allow for no exceptions.  The logical consequence of that is that even girls as young as 11 or 12 (well below the age of consent) could be forced to carry children against their or their parents will.

The people that would be in power in Gilead are living among us today. They are not some anomaly.

On the show, Serena and Fred both thought things went a little far with Gilead - remember how Serena was hoping to speak before the commanders in the first season, but was denied? But it's not like they can escape now. It makes perfect sense to me that they have invested in it.[/quote]

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