Seems like that's where the show's writers are heading. To me, anyway.
After the finale, especially.
That would piss me off.
Maybe she won't. I feel a soft-sell coming though.
June stays and all the Hollys get out - Moira , Emily - even the second Holly. Hannah. The women more Holly than June is - fighters who can't not fight and won't fight on any terms but their own. June couldn't save her mom - but she can help save all the Hollys of Gilead.
June couldn't be Holly and they were often in conflict - and if the writer's want to somehow stress that Holly was an extreme and June is some sort of an ideal - then that's sexist thinking and one that does not belong heaped onto the primary female protagonist in the Handmaid's Tale.
June has her own kind of strength but that doesn't make Holly or Moira or Emily extremes. Doesn't make them wrong.
The word handmaid, though never complimentary, can also be viewed as June not the handmaid of the Waterfords or how Gilead sees it - but as the handmaid to all the other women. June is the servant of Handmaids - she serves them by fighting for them. Her every act of rebellion and defiance, no matter how small, causes a crack in Gilead.
June has been a calming influence when needed and a facilitating force when necessary.
But if they kill June off as some sort of selfless mother-figure martyr, I swear the world will hear me scream.
Because for all the abuse and horror brought by Gilead, and the entire point of the book, the writers would be no different than the Sons of Jacob - reducing women to a sexist ideal of womanhood - reducing June to nothing more than her womb, her gender, her assigned role - as a mother sacrificing her life for those she loves. As if women have no higher value or can achieve no higher glory than the role of the momma bear, the self-sacrificing mother, the great nurturer who makes it all better.
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