Blank Memory - "White Bear"

In the episode, "White Bear", Victoria and her fiance torture and murder a young girl and Victoria records it. The "government" erases her memory and she wakes up in her house one day with no recollection of anything, but everyone around her knows exactly what she did. They create a show that follows Victoria through a day of torture, similar to how the girl  and people record her just like she did to the young girl. Then, when the day is over and she is revealed to the crowd of the White Bear Justice Center and becomes aware of what she did, her memory is erased again and she wakes up the next day in the same predicament, experiencing this torture over and over again, day after day.  Ian, the fiance, dies and Victoria was left to reap the consequences of both of their actions. 

Though Victoria did not actually torture nor murder Jemima, I think she was seen as the "monster" in the crime because society holds her to a higher expectation due to the stereotypical roles of women. Women are known to be the caregivers and the nurturers to children, so when Victoria did nothing to help the girl, but instead received enjoyment and entertainment from the incident, society was shocked and appalled that a woman would do this. Though this is such a common stereotype, society should not categorize every woman like this, obviously because not all woman engage in the same roles that society presses on them. Citizens were upset by the fact that the normal stereotype of women was disrupted by Victoria's behavior, and though its not necessarily right to characterize women like this, I felt the same way because of the similar roles that most women have in today's society. 

In addition, I think that Victoria deserved her punishment, however, it did not really do the government any good to erase her memory after every day because when she woke up the next day, she didn't remember what happened the previous day. Therefore, she was never really experienced her punishment because though she was being tortured, she had no memory of it form the day before, so she couldn't fully feel remorseful for what she had done. She only had the capability of feeling remorse for a few minutes and then her memory was manipulated at the end of the day. For that reason, in my opinion, her punishment was not that effective. I do not think that the government should have manipulated her memory, I think they should have punished her but let her live with her actions instead of erasing her memory each day.