The narrator, Jean, sums it up on page 1: “I’ve become a woman of few words”.
This is all part of the plan, the Pure Movement, to throw America back to a bygone era (that, really, didn’t exist in the first place) of men at work and on top, women at home and silent. Even a nod is enough to make a woman feel self-conscious. Anyone caught using sign language is hauled off and subjected to unspecified but undoubtedly horrible punishments. Pens and paper are forbidden, along with books and mail and all other iterations of the same. If you’re like me, your mind has probably jumped to all of the alternative methods of communication that women could use to resist. The new government forces women out of the workforce, freezes their bank accounts, takes away their passports – it all sounds familiar, right? What makes Vox different is one additional catch: women and girls are restricted to speaking just 100 words a day, monitored by “bracelets” capable of delivering sharp electric shocks to those who exceed the limit. Note that the man himself is never actually named in Vox: he is simply alluded to, the president elected after a black man’s historic term in office, plunging the United States back into a totalitarian regime with the backing of the country’s Bible Belt. If you do, I’ll earn a tiny cut at no extra cost to you – it’s an affiliate link, yo!
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