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So I'm at the end of season 2 and I wonder why June has never been mutilated?

posted 4 years ago by LetoAtreides (576)
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She has done and said things far worse than the characters who got their eyes gouged out, tongues removed or arms severed. If at least she had been nice to Aunt Lydia there would be ground to understand why is somewhat protected, but she's been "mean" or rather "spoke truth to power" to everybody in charge by now.

[–] Luis (187) 3 years ago

She does the resistance, talking back, and all those things that you say after she gets pregnant. Since fertile women were at a premium, and children the number one priority, once a woman was pregnant she was on a kind of protected status. Others not so, others had not gotten pregnant so were harshly punished.