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    When Women Are Accused of Complicity

    Recent television shows and news stories raise a similar question: Can systems of oppression function without the involvement of women?
    by Sophie Gilbert Aug 17, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Laura Cavanaugh / Getty / Hulu / Showtime / Paul Spella / The Atlantic

    This article contains spoilers regarding recent episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Loudest Voice.

    D has depicted all kinds of grim visuals: ritualized hangings, feet flayed with steel cables, women whose mouths have been bolted shut. And yet the image I couldn’t get out of my mind this week after watching the Season 3 finale was that of a generic to-go coffee cup. Early in the episode, Mark Tuello (Sam Jaeger), a representative of the U.S. Government-in-Exile, came to meet with Serena Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski), a recent defector from Gilead who’d turned in her husband in exchange for immunity. As Tuello walked up to greet her, Serena was sitting on a bench outside her detention center, placidly reading. She wore a long, dusky pink overcoat, tailored slacks, and ballet pumps. With her smooth blond curls, she looked like the very model of. Tuello handed

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