Posted on 05/17/2019 1:10:20 PM PDT by Morgana
Handmaids are everywhere these days.
The red robes and white bonnets made famous in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel-turned-streaming-sensation first showed up in Texas. Then they spread — throughout the country, over the ocean and eventually into a Senate office building where the women wearing them loomed over lawmakers scheduled to decide whether Brett M. Kavanaugh deserved a spot on the Supreme Court.
Now Kavanaugh has his seat, and abortion rights activists have their uniform. News outlets covering the crusade by lawmakers in conservative states to stop women from ending their pregnancies seem to have settled on a favorite featured photo in turn. So when the public thinks about Roe v. Wade, it thinks about “The Handmaid’s Tale.” And when we think about the activists fighting for women to control their own wombs, we think about them wearing red and white.
But should we?
“Fight to keep fiction from becoming reality,” exhorts the Handmaid Coalition, which helps organize events and even offers instructions for garb assembly. Fiction is the imaginary country of Gilead, the theocratic realm Atwood sent to the bestsellers’ list in 1985. Reality is America, right now.
The comparison has some power. The title character of Atwood’s creation, remade for millennials on Hulu two years ago, is treated as a human incubator. The laws that states are adopting this spring banning abortions at the first detection of a “heartbeat,” or prohibiting them outright as Alabama did this week, also yank any semblance of bodily autonomy away from women.
The spectacle, too, has been effective. Those women standing silent outside the Kavanaugh hearings, all in carmine, looked like a work of art, and like art, they had a visceral impact. They didn’t make people think so much as they made them feel — our throats tightened, our stomachs clenched.
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It did become reality - in ISIS territory with sex slave markets and even Aunts, women who chaperoned the sex slaves and enforced modesty rules on women.
Atwood based it on Islam, Communist China and Romania, Quakers and Puritans of the 1600’s.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/14/movies/margaret-atwood-reflects-on-a-hit.html
Even assuming the Quaker and Puritan facets of the basis are well founded (I say they are not), the other sources are much more current and relevant, especially that of the Religion of PeeCee.
“Even assuming the Quaker and Puritan facets of the basis are well founded (I say they are not)”
I agree. But even if they were they aren’t relevant today.
“... other sources are much more current and relevant, especially that of the Religion of PeeCee.”
That’s right.
Islam an Communist regimes are relevant.
I stand corrected. I refuse to read that hysterical trash.
Most people have no idea what these women in the funny costumes are doing. Liberals just assume that everyone will make the connection and become pro abortion, when in fact the vast majority of people have either never heard of The Handmaid’s Tale or think the whole premise is ridiculous. What is scary is that not only is it real to extreme liberals, it guides how they view us. They are convinced that we are the evil men in the book who treat our wives as sex slaves.
The book was awful. I read it years ago. I think I threw it in the trash.
31. Every bad guy running from cops will run into an alley, the end of which is blocked by a chain link fence, which the bad guy will attempt unsuccessfully to climb over, before falling back, into the clutches of the cops.
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