Posted on 05/17/2019 1:10:20 PM PDT by Morgana
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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