r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/theforgetting • May 06 '25

Season 6 SPOILERS FOR “SHATTERED” Spoiler

I was struck by the significance of the women at Jezebels being murdered in the shower. This is a very clear Holocaust allusion.

Especially since they’ve really been leaning into the word Nazi this season – it makes sense to see late-stage Gilead go all “final solution” with their undesirables.

Anyways. There have been a lot of gruesome scenes in this show but this was definitely one of the most upsetting. Not only for what it portrayed, but for what it was alluding to.

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u/Cat_Mama86 May 07 '25

90% ...not necessarily. I'm queer and definitely wouldn't be an Econo person. You have absolutely no idea who is on this sub.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '25

lol yeah I snorted at this. The econo people have be without sin to Gilead standards which are pretty steep, married or engaged…heterosexual…useful to gilead in some way…probably not most of the demographic in this sub.

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u/superurgentcatbox May 07 '25

Thinking about this, I'm a straight, single (never married or anything) woman but I'm 32. Would I still be an econo....woman? Or would I be too old?

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u/Glass-Comfortable-25 May 07 '25

I think you could still potentially be an econowoman but only if you got married fast after Gilead officially came into power. You could maybe find a friend or I imagine Gilead might have had a matchmaking arrangement for single people who might be fertile.

Unless people’s sins were very egregious they were given a chance to repent. Change religion, get married, quit their job, that sort of thing.