Talk:Edith's 50th Birthday/@comment-25357668-20140828062111/@comment-43328909-20190730024131

If they had no jokes in that episode, it would have solely been Edith being raped for 10-20 minutes. It would have been significantly more uncomfortable. They also really dragged it out to make it REAL. It isn't like 'oh he tried to get in, she hit him with the pan, he runs away and she cries', the characters talk about it, and they hug. She flexed her wit and stalled and this was meant to be portrayed as real to the audience. The created what seemed to be a never ending nightmare situation and put it on tv, and before that cake burned, she GAVE UP. Right before she smelled burning she says "okay, but can we do it without kissing?" because in the end, she is such a good person and so loyal, that even when she is about to be hurt, violating her marriage was the first thing to come to her mind, as if she is the bad guy, You can see the patriarchy and the culture and the victim blaming all over this episode, they dragged it out so that the next time you want to blame a woman for being raped, you think of what Edith did, and then realize she still thought she was wrong and so do millions of men and women.