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I read the novel a long time ago. Even as a high school kid I thought it was crap.
Really?
It is difficult to imagine how a writer this dense manages to eat and excrete.
This is the SECOND time that it was filmed. I doubt that it's any better than the first stab at it, which wasn't all that good.....unless one is a lefty lunatic and extremely stupid to boot.
I read the book, when it came out and it wasn't a bad read, IF you can managed to divorce oneself from political polemics, which run throughout it.
I was forced to read this tripe by a feminist college professor. It sure IS relevant...TO ISLAM! Not to Donald Trump, Republicans or the “Christian Right.” This is NON-FICTION as far as the Islamic world treats women.
What's more, it seems very critical of kinds of reproductive technology that Planned Parenthood and the left are in favor of now.
Plus, if you really think about it, it's anti-daycare and proxy motherhood.
The story is informative in that it shows you how ridiculously paranoid leftists are about Christians.
I’ve been reading Margaret Atwood since I was a teenager. Her writing is amazing. I love her stories. And they are just that: STORIES.
If anything you read ‘sways’ you to think in some way differently than how you were raised or what you’ve come to believe due to personal experiences in life, you are a weak person who has no moral compass!
I likened, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ to any other ‘cautionary’ tale of the time - ‘Farenheight 451’ ‘1984’ ‘Animal Farm’ ‘Atlas Shrugged’ ‘Catch 22’ etc. I’ve read everything. Ask me to name something I HAVEN’T read; I’ll have no answer for you, LOL!
Socialists and The Enemy Media. They destroy anything they touch with their fecking, ‘analysis’ of EVERYTHING, but they NEVER look into their own hearts of darkness.
It sounds like she basically took the story of a slave woman from the Islamic world and just changed the location and the religion. Hey Presto, instant money.
But they still haven’t made a film out of The Wheel of Time.
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.
Had to do a book report on it.
I said it was absolute pap.
Teacher was a fanboi of pap, apparently.
"OK, you're good to go Fred. Put the blocks to her." 
The only people using women exclusively as “breeders” are homosexuals.
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.
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.
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.