"OK, you're good to go Fred. Put the blocks to her." 
Posted on 04/22/2017 7:29:44 PM PDT by EdnaMode
OTOH...Atwood has given an interview about the new series and she's delighted that it is coming out, because she sees "women losing "rights" ( she's gung-ho PROABORTION and "FEMINAZI" crap )under President Trump.
That's an impressive amount of propaganda and outright lies packed into one paragraph:
the story of women who have been stripped of all agency to exist solely as breeding vessels for the patriarchy seems all too prescient
Orly? Propaganda item #1. Why would the situation described above be "prescient" in any way, shape, or form?
in a 2017 when immigrants are being separated from their children
Propaganda item #2. Somebody left out an adjective. Oh, that's right: it should say illegal immigrants, and, of course, if they're being separated from their children, that's only by choice, because they could obviously stay together if they wanted to accompany their lawbreaking family member to the third-world hellhole from which he or she came.
facts are “alternative"
Propaganda item #3. The "alternative facts" are those which the Democrats and Media (but I repeat myself) promulgate, such as, obviously, the "facts" from this very article.
The intended target of this slur was obviously the conservative side of the political spectrum, but here it is being actually exemplified by the Left.
and women are losing access to healthcare
Absolute lie.
at the hands of a president who’s admitted sexual assault on audiotape.
Absolute lie.
So, lessee, I count at least three items of propaganda and two outright lies, all contained in a paragraph consisting of a single sentence...
I'm sure the remainder of the article is every bit as compelling...
ISIS, Boko Haram and other Muslim fundamentalist groups are recreating the world of “Handmaiden’s Tale”, not Christians.
But liberal secularists have been fighting the boogeyman of Christian theocracy for so long, they can’t see the real and multiple fronts of Islamic theocratic rule rising.
However, they are already censoring criticism of existing Islamic theocracies like Saudi Arabia and Iran, so the inability to condemn the new ones is not a surprise.
I had to read most of these titles in a Sci-Fi class at Georgia Tech in the mid 80's, the theme of which was "dystopias"...
Le Guin is, as is Atwood, a rabid lefty and something of an America hater. Her books are GARBAGE! People can change sex on a whim? GIVE ME A BREAK!
The birth rate is below replacement rate. If anything, it's the opposite of what she projected.
A bit of it ( how the heroine of the title is impregnated ) is right out of the Bible....how Abraham impregnates Hagar, Sarah's "handmaid"; hence the title of the series, the movie and the book both were based on.
Had to do a book report on it.
I said it was absolute pap.
Teacher was a fanboi of pap, apparently.
Atwood is an America HATING lefty Canadian, who wrote this political polemic, when Reagan was president. Now with President Trump, she’s all googlie-eyed about “how spot on and timely” this book is...yet again. :-(
"OK, you're good to go Fred. Put the blocks to her."
The only people using women exclusively as “breeders” are homosexuals.
Yes, funny how leftists Fantis about hoe evil Christians are suppose to be, but turn the other way at actual evil by the Mohametans...
Jordan was using the term “Game of Houses” in WOT years ago, which is probably where “Game of Thrones” stole it from.
Illustrative in that just from the trailer and reading a bit about this insane rambling idiocy we can see how left-wing radicals live in a bizarre fantasy world. They must be doing more drugs than we suspect.
I agree. I also read the book as it had been highly acclaimed. Although I can remember nothing specific about the story, I do remember it was tough to read because it was so boring and negative.
Aha! I just found a snippet of the book which now jogs my memory and reminds me how truly mind-numbingly awful it was:
“She blinked, the light was too strong for her, her mouth trembled, around her front teeth, teeth that stuck out a little and were long and yellowish, and I thought about the dead mice we would find on the doorstep, when we lived in a house, all three of us, four counting our cat, who was the one making these offerings. Aunt Lydia pressed her hand over her mouth of a dead rodent.”
After that awful book I never had any desire to read anything else by Margaret Atwood.
Margaret Atwood wasted a lot of readers’ time and killed a lot of trees to convey a four word message, “Men bad, women good.”
This crap has to be the most overrated dystopian tale of all time. As this article shows one has to tie oneself into knots trying to find current events or societal trends that somehow match the fictional world. The only thing I have seen coming close to what Atwood wrote is rich Westerners renting wombs of 3rd World Women. But of course the Western rent a womb tend to be part of the Left, especially the G in LGBT, so we need to not to mention that.
I think you are unaware of how women even in the United States are treated. In Texas I could not buy a car in the 60’s because women were still chattel even though I had a full time job and was the mother of 3 kids. Abuse of women is another poorly recognized area of malfeasance in the legal system.
The Handmaid’s Tale is exactly what women will face in an Islamic world. I will work to prevent that the rest of of my life if necessary.
and women are losing access to healthcare at the hands of a president who’s admitted sexual assault on audiotape.
What a crock of crap. Constant lies. Constant hate and they wonder why people are getting pissed off. Keep it up.
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