Posted on 05/01/2017 7:22:48 AM PDT by C19fan
The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu is a horror story. It’s a world where a class of women are reduced to walking wombs with no right to their bodies or any babies that come out of them. Extreme violence and the looming threat thereof is everywhere. One of the main characters has lost an eye because she didn’t submit quickly enough. A cattle prod is used often. And everyone’s afraid of being sent to the camps where you’re worked to death.
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Yeah, Natasha Richardson, late wife of Liam Neeson, who thinks guns are to blame for his wife’s skiing accident.
I remember the whole thing was really lame. I was a big science fiction fan back then and I thought that one would be something...different in science fiction. Nope. It was just dumb. Nowadays, I’d stop reading probably a quarter of the way into a book like that. They seldom redeem themselves in later chapters.
Without lowering myself to actually watching the new series, can someone give the depicted cause of womb control?
The first movie version (and presumably the book) depicted some grave disease leading to widespread infertility (likewise “Children of Men” which took it more completely); whether it’s depicted likewise, or changed to a sociopolitical compulsion, makes a big difference to the story even if it plays out equally.
That’s what I recall (from the movie), that most (not all) women were sterile.
If _men_ were mostly sterile, the whole story would have played out very different - women paying to copulate with fertile men, rattling social structures but still on the whole getting all desiring women pregnant - akin to a culture getting most of-age men killed off in a war and the survivors coming home to a plethora of willing women. With proper planning & timing, one man could impregnate >365 women per year.
But with _women_ being mostly sterile, and the impregnation/gestation cycle being upwards of a year minimum, and a plethora of capable men facing a minuscule number of fertile (and not currently pregnant) women, demand for wombs would be extremely high & costly, complicated by the seething jealousy of the infertile. Much more interesting story.
Hence I’m wondering whether the current series is based on biological infertility, or sociopolitical oppression. If the latter, I’m not interested (shoot the oppressors & propagate the species accordingly).
If we are going to dredge up old stories and make new movies out of them we might as well also do SHADOW ON THE LAND. Remember that one from about 1968?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_on_the_Land
Maybe combine all the stories in one! Shadow on the land, brave new world, 1984, The handmaiden’s tale,
oh yes lets not forget the original TV series “V” (Shadow on the land with aliens).
Yes. Men being sterile is counter to the whole premise. It was most women who were sterile. That’s the whole point of the cultural shift exposed in the movie.
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I’m far more concerned about the Democrats using “The Gulag Archipelago” as their guide to ideal governance.
What group could pull off a post apocalyptic take down of the constitution and create a slave state? Moslems? Mormons? definitely not the establishment presbyerians, methodists, episcopalions, and lutherans and definitely not the social justice warrior catholics and happy charismatic evangelicals. The only group vying for this honor in the long run is the Sharia Law Moslems. Too bad the TV people and Margaret Atwood live in the 20th century bubble and are unaware of the 2017 realtiy.
She missed the Obamas “bleeding” all over the American culture and life.
If this type of dystopian culture arises it will be from the atheistic left, not from the Christian right. No one else in our modern society so epitomizes the suppression of rights and freedom, nor longs so deeply for the “right” to control the lives of others or eradicate those who disagree with them.
“The Bush administration used the threat of terror to fundamentally change American society”
uhhhh, I think 9/11 had a bit to do with that (and child sacrifice).
“But Trump’s impact is so large and so pervasive that he infects everything.”
ROTFL—You want to know why it wasn’t done during the last administration?
I assumed a feminist wrote the article and it would have something to do with women.
Wrong-headed, certainly, but somehow relevant to the show.
Instead it's by Touré and just a not very interesting or perceptive attack on Trump and his "soul-crushing government."
He may not even have watched the show.
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