r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/Taiwan_ • 5d ago

Gay Men at Jezebels? Question

One thing that I had been thinking about recently. In Season 3 we saw Commander Winslow have a bit of an implied gay side to him, likely he was bisexual. It did get me thinking, instead of just murdering all the gay men, is it possible that some were thrown into Jezebels to satisfy some Commanders' closeted homosexuality or even threesome fantasies?

Could this possibility also extend to other LGBTQ+ groups? I can see trans women working at Jezebels as well to satisfy some Commanders who are into trans women, because I know some men love trans women for some like emasculation kinks and we all know Commanders love their power play.

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u/JaelAmara44 5d ago

I don't know in which chapter, but the boy who was going to escape with June was raped by a commander, they say it in a not very explicit way, if I'm not wrong it was "More than Gilead, run away from him, his commander has... inclinations peculiar" something like that, I don't remember well. So commanders use men of lower rank than them.

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u/ambermeadowcompanion 4d ago

Where was this mentioned? The guy who got on the plane and got killed when she got caught? Cause I didn’t see or hear anything abt a commander raping a guy .

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u/JaelAmara44 4d ago

Yeah, it's that guy, I can't remember who mentioned it, but they were talking about Offred's "kidnapping" when they said it.

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u/ambermeadowcompanion 4d ago

In the book or series? That’s where I got lost I have seen the series probably 15 times. - but if it’s in the book maybe that’s why i missed it but she didn’t get away in the book till t he last page - so I’m lost . Maybe I kissed it

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u/JaelAmara44 4d ago

In the series, I remember watching it when it was being broadcast on Paramunt and my mother mentioned "Wait...he was raped?" I don't know if it's because of the translation or something, but I watch the series in Spanish, I saw it on television and I vividly remember that because, well, it was the first time I realized that not even men were free in Gilead.

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u/ambermeadowcompanion 4d ago

Missed it - 🙃