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#ThePower is really good. It tells the truth about what it's like to be a girl in this society.

It's not easy to watch for sure.

I'm impressed with the writers, directors, showrunners, cast, the whole thing.

"I was about 7 when I found out I was a girl. I'd just been a kid until then....I knew what it meant...that I was was on the shit team.

The world makes sure that we know it's the shit team."

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Book 21: "#ThePower" by #NaomiAlderman.

Cool premise that the author doesn't carry all the way through. The story unfolds through several POV characters, but there's always the one (or more) that you're bored with, or there's a boring stretch for one you do like. So I often felt unsatisfied.

The conceit that the book itself is written by a man in a matriarchal world is fascinating. It only bookends the novel with "research" interspersed—I wished there was more.

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Uff, die aktuelle Folge #ThePower (bzw. #DieGabe im Deutschen) hat mich mitgenommen.

Worum geht’s? Ganz einfach: Was wäre, wenn Frauen auf der ganzen Welt auf einmal die Fähigkeit bekämen, Blitze aus ihren Fingern zu verschießen, mit Intensitäten zwischen „leicht kribbelnd“ bis „tödlich“? Was macht das mit den Frauen? Was macht das Patriarchat?

Eine feministische Science-Fiction-Serie in der Gegenwart, basierend auf der Buchvorlage von Naomi Alderman. Empfehlung!

youtu.be/rjcgp-FxMxk

I found the 4th EP of #ThePower strangely moving: it was the depiction of the #women’s #uprising in UAE, looking eerily like the current young girls uprising in #Iran that got me, bringing the visceral realisation that women have been 2nd-class citizen around the world too long, controlled, enslaved, muzzled by a neverending #patriarchy. The crazy prospect that women could change this with literally a snap of the fingers is both intoxicating and crushing, for we are so far from #equity #tvseries