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Aw sh*t, here we go again.

Today they shaved my head. Today they ripped my useless womb out and I am empty, so empty... They have even taken my name from me.

'But why the pyre?' '...because we can, I suppose.'
*stabs Judge Goldsmith twenty times with Tess Durbeyfield's kitchen knife*

I'm pretty sure that's meant to be 'flouting', not 'flaunting', the rules...

'...men have the necessary expertise and intelligence to choose better for you than you could choose for yourself.'
BECAUSE YOU DON'T EDUCATE WOMEN AND HOLD THE SUPREMELY ARCHAIC VIEW THAT THEY ARE BASICALLY 'DEFECTIVE' MEN.

I want to scrape off all this flesh, clean out the shit that makes me what I am, start anew. Maybe then they'll stop.
Rereading this section is making me realise the complete and utter tragedy of freida's situation.

Pretty much confirmed that freida is addicted to sleeping pills. Hardly surprising considering all the shit she (and indeed all the young women) have to put up with in this book.

'She is an eve… [she] has failed in her duty. She has no defence.'
Getting distinctly 'Handmaid's Tale' vibes from the fact that women are no longer permitted to testify in a court of law. May be because I just watched the new episode of the series last night...