Just recently started watching the first season of The Handmaid's Tale.
I was horrified when a foreign visitor asked if these women were willing, if they were happy, if they had ever thought about a day when women would lose their voice and be banned from reading like they are now.
Today in 2020, these questions still frighten women, because many times we can't face our cowardly self in the face of reality, and our self that is not brave enough. When the handmaid, who was renamed Emily after being punished, grabbed the guard's car and drove away, she must have felt a freedom she had never felt before. At this moment, women driving a car becomes a highly symbolic act. Women drive vehicles, bound for the unknown and uncertain. There is a great deal of freedom, autonomy, passion, and the right to choose behind this. It is no longer a male prerogative.
The moment Emily drives the car, my heart is pounding. It is completely different from seeing the numbness of male driving scenes in car advertisements, but instantly understands the pursuit of male consumers for car driving.
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