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Vanity: Hollyweird Coming out with Christian-Bashing Delusional Handmaid's Tale TV Series
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Posted on 02/06/2017 9:18:38 AM PST by TigerClaws

The Handmaid's Tale is an upcoming American television series based on the book of the same name by Margaret Atwood. It has been ordered by streaming service Hulu with a straight-to-series order, with the production beginning in late 2016.[1]

It will premiere on April 26, 2017.[2]


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To: TigerClaws

Most leftards when bashing the Christian Patriarchal culture conveniently forget Ephesians 5.

This whole TV series looks like it was written by perverts.


21 posted on 02/06/2017 9:50:46 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: TigerClaws

The Handmaid's Tale

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plot summary

The Handmaid's Tale is set in the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic military dictatorship formed within the borders of what was formerly the United States of America.

Beginning with a staged attack that kills the President and most of Congress, an extreme Christian movement calling itself the "Sons of Jacob" launches a revolution and suspends the United States Constitution under the pretext of restoring order. They are quickly able to take away all of women's rights, largely attributed to financial records being stored electronically and labelled by gender. The new regime, the Republic of Gilead, moves quickly to consolidate its power and reorganize society along a new militarized, hierarchical, compulsory regime of Old Testament-inspired social and religious fanaticism among its newly created social classes. In this society, human rights are severely limited and women's rights are unrecognized as almost all women are forbidden to read.

The story is told in the first person by a woman called Offred (literally Of-Fred). The character is one of a class of women kept for reproductive purposes and known as "handmaids" by the ruling class in an era of declining births due to sterility from pollution and sexually transmitted diseases. Offred describes her life during her third assignment as a handmaid, in this case to Fred (referred to as "The Commander"). Interspersed in flashbacks are portions of her life from before and during the beginning of the revolution, when she finds she has lost all autonomy to her husband, through her failed attempt to escape with her husband and daughter to Canada, to her indoctrination into life as a handmaid. Offred describes the structure of Gilead's society, including the several different classes of women and their circumscribed lives in the new theocracy.

The Commander is a high-ranking official in Gilead. Although he is supposed to have contact with Offred only during "the ceremony", a ritual of sexual intercourse intended to result in conception and at which his wife is present, he begins an illegal and ambiguous relationship with her. He offers her hidden or contraband products, such as old (1970s) fashion magazines, cosmetics and clothes, takes her to a secret brothel run by the government, and furtively meets with her in his study, where he allows her to read, an activity otherwise prohibited for women. The Commander's wife, Serena Joy, also has secret interactions with Offred, arranging for her secretly to have sex with Nick, The Commander's driver, in an effort to get Offred pregnant. In exchange for Offred's cooperation, Serena Joy gives her news of her daughter, whom Offred has not seen since she and her family were captured trying to escape Gilead.

After Offred's initial meeting with Nick, they begin to rendezvous more frequently. Offred discovers she enjoys sex with Nick, despite her indoctrination and her memories of her husband. She shares potentially dangerous information about her past with him. Through another handmaid, Ofglen, Offred learns of the Mayday resistance, an underground network working to overthrow Gilead. Shortly after Ofglen's disappearance (later discovered to be a suicide), the Commander's wife finds evidence of the relationship between Offred and the Commander. Offred contemplates suicide. As the novel concludes, she is being taken away by the secret police, the Eyes of God, known informally as "the Eyes", under orders from Nick. Before she is put in the large black van, Nick tells her that the men are part of the Mayday resistance and that Offred must trust him. Offred does not know if Nick is a member of the Mayday resistance or a government agent posing as one, and she does not know if going with the men will result in her escape or her capture. She enters the van with her future uncertain.

The novel concludes with a metafictional epilogue that explains that the events of the novel occurred shortly after the beginning of what is called "the Gilead Period". The epilogue is "a partial transcript of the proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium on Gileadean Studies" written in 2195. According to the symposium's "keynote speaker" Professor Pieixoto, he and colleague, Professor Knotly Wade, discovered Offred's story recorded onto cassette tapes. They transcribed the tapes, calling them collectively "the handmaid's tale". Through the tone and actions of the professionals in this final section of the book, the world of academia is highlighted and critiqued, and Pieixoto discusses his team's search for the characters named in the Tale, and the impossibility of proving the tapes' authenticity.[6] Nevertheless, the epilogue implies that, following the collapse of the theocratic Republic of Gilead, a more equal society, though not the United States as it previously had existed, re-emerged with a restoration of full rights for women and freedom of religion.


  Because there's been so many coups and attempted coups in western democracies by "extreme Christian" groups.

22 posted on 02/06/2017 9:54:32 AM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: TigerClaws

The Handmaids Tale is must reading in most universities since it is basically a feminist screed against males.


23 posted on 02/06/2017 10:03:53 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
And so: Women were treated as property, like slaves. They were given no respect or consideration. Men ruled and did as they liked.

And I was thinking: This makes no sense.

In Robert Heinlein's novel THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS, the shortage of women on the Moon has exactly the result any free-market economist would expect: they are highly valued. Margaret Atwood was an idiot.

24 posted on 02/06/2017 10:08:53 AM PST by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: tet68

Not quite. The scarcity that seems to give women power nowadays is almost entirely artificial, so they only have power because men are willing to fool themselves and go along with it. If men choose not to participate, then women have no power over them.

If there was a real scarcity, we wouldn’t have that luxury.


25 posted on 02/06/2017 10:13:31 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: ClearCase_guy

If they understood supply and demand the labor unions would not support the same party (or one of the parties) that wants open borders and cheap unregulated labor.


26 posted on 02/06/2017 10:15:01 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: TigerClaws
It has already been a really lousy movie. Anti-male, anti-American, anti-religion tripe.

Plot summary

In the near future, war rages across the fictional Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99% of the population sterile. Kate is a woman attempting to emigrate to Canada with her husband and daughter. While attempting to take a dirt road, they are caught by the Gilead Border Guard, who order them to turn back or they will open fire. Kate's husband uses an automatic rifle to draw the fire, telling Kate to run, but he gets shot, Kate gets captured, whilst their daughter wanders off into the backcountry confused and unaccompanied. The authorities take Kate to a training facility with several other women, where they are all trained to become a Handmaid, a concubine for one of the privileged but barren couples who rule the country's religious fundamentalist regime. Although she resists being indoctrinated into the cult of the Handmaids, mixing Old Testament orthodoxy with 12-step gospel [?] and ritualized violence, Kate is soon assigned to the home of the Commander and his cold, inflexible wife, Serena Joy. There she is renamed "Offred" - "of Fred".

Her role as concubine is emotion-free, as she lies between Serena Joy's legs while being penetrated by the Commander, in hopes that she will bear them a child. Kate continually longs for her earlier life, and is haunted by nightmares of her husband's death and daughter's disappearance. She soon learns that many of the nation's male leaders are as sterile as their wives. Serena Joy desperately wants a baby, so she convinces Kate to risk the punishment for fornication — death by hanging — in order to be fertilized by another man who will make her pregnant, and subsequently, spare her life. In exchange for agreeing to this, Serena Joy provides information to Kate that her daughter is alive, and shows a recent photograph of her as proof, living with another Commander. However, Kate is told she can never see her daughter. The Commander also tries to get closer to Kate, in the sense he feels if she enjoyed herself more she would be a better handmaid. The Commander gets Kate hard-to-obtain items, and, having realized her background as a librarian, allows her access to his private library. However, during a night out, the Commander has sex with Kate in a manner that is probably not intended for pregnancy. The other man selected by Serena Joy turns out to be Nick, the Commander's sympathetic chauffeur. Kate grows attached to him and eventually becomes pregnant with his child.

Kate ultimately kills the Commander, then is taken away by a police unit. She thinks that the men are the Eyes, the government's secret police. However, it turns out that they are soldiers from the resistance movement, which Nick, too, is a part of. Kate then flees with them, leaving Nick behind in an emotional scene.

In the closing scene, Kate is once again free and wearing her own clothes, but facing an uncertain future. She is living by herself, pregnant in a trailer whilst receiving intelligence reports from the rebels. She wonders if she will be reunited with Nick, but expresses hope that will happen, and resolves with the rebels' help she will find her daughter.

Eech!

27 posted on 02/06/2017 10:15:38 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: TigerClaws

The core premise of the story is that a worldwide disease makes most women infertile. The few who can conceive are pressed into service as concubine/surrogate-mother’s.

The story having been written pre-IVF technology, conception is the old fashioned way leading to subplots about older rich men rather enjoying the process involving young women bit complicated by their wives observing the process to ensure he doesn’t enjoy it too much. To facilitate this, religion is abused to address the moral conflicts.


28 posted on 02/06/2017 10:17:08 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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To: TigerClaws

The handmaid’s tale seems to be a feminist rewrite of an earlier sci-fi book from the mid 50’ called “Consider Her Ways”

In this one there’s a similar setup except the society is a women only matriarchy .. majority of these women do not reproduce, but they keep one small subset of woman in bondage as morbidly obese mass breeders, freeing the majority of women from the “burden of motherhood”. It was done for TV as an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode

If you consider how feminists treat other women especially how feminist treat motherhood “Consider her Ways” is probably a more realistic scenario... the biggest abusers of women in our leftist politically correct Society are feminist


29 posted on 02/06/2017 11:16:20 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: Mr. Douglas

The premise of the book is “if we take a scenario where (A) and (B) occurs and a zealous Christian dictatorship comes to power in America, then THIS is what you can expect”.

Agit-prop and nothing more.

And the Left has already brought up the previous adaptation as a film “worth pondering” with Trump as president.

http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/a-pop-culture-guide-to-surviving-a-trump-presidency-9135153
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017
Pete Vonder Haar

And these Marxist dupes have the balls to call the Soviets’ influence in media and activist front groups “hysteria” and undue panic. THEY are the ones in hysterics.


30 posted on 02/06/2017 11:18:27 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: tet68
men would be expendable slaves to provide for all the needs of the women.

Reminds me of Harlan Ellison's A Boy And His Dog when they hooked up Don Johnson to the milking machine.


31 posted on 02/06/2017 11:25:32 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: a fool in paradise

But only the true coolaid drinkers are buying it. And their ranks are shrinking.

What the left has done is try to play out the old “How to boil a frog alive” analogy and they made the mistake of turning the heat up too fast with obama. And now their solution is to turn it up even faster. It’s killing them. Frogs are jumping out at an alarming rate.


32 posted on 02/06/2017 11:30:56 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: tet68
And there was the 1970s tv show Star Maidens about a planet ruled by women where two of the male slaves escape to planet Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maidens


33 posted on 02/06/2017 11:32:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: TigerClaws

Sounds like an anti-Christian twistup of Robert Heinlein’s “Revolt in 2100.”


34 posted on 02/06/2017 11:32:14 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: TigerClaws
Note that crazy leftists WANT Muslims to come here who actually would create a hell on earth for women.

Must be the guilt over having supported women's suffrage all those many years ago, and wanting to make amends! < /sarc >

35 posted on 02/06/2017 12:40:46 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Building the Wall, NOW!)
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To: TigerClaws

This is called doubling down. I predict it following the same majestic path as the “Golden Compass” which Hollywood could not figure out why it didn’t do so well either.


36 posted on 02/06/2017 12:49:15 PM PST by I still care (The left's goal never was tolerance. It always was facism.)
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To: TigerClaws

Leftists and many Democrats are uneducated enough to actually believe that Christians and Muslims are equally violent and regressive. I love to treat these people with sarcasm, it’s quite fun. Any reasonably educated person can knock their arguments down, they tend to use only one, Timothy McVeigh and there really aren’t any.

I mean, there just aren’t any nuns blowing up buses or throwing gays off roofs.

But in all seriousness the people making this are trying to convince people that Christians wish to enslave women just like Muslims do. They are that insane and the depth of Trump Derangement Syndrome out there should indicate there are those who have taken leave of their senses enough to believe anything, that will sit and blankly nod, “Uh huh, uh huh” on watching this. Expect gushing reviews from lib critics on this turd.


37 posted on 02/06/2017 12:55:30 PM PST by I still care (The left's goal never was tolerance. It always was facism.)
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To: Boogieman
If women were so scarce, they would have ALL the power in society

Exactly. For an intelligent take on this, read Robert A. Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."

An illustrative passage from the novel:

"We don't have laws," I said. "Never been allowed to. Have customs, but aren't written and aren't enforced--or could say they are self enforcing because are simply way things have to be, conditions being what they are. Could say our customs are natural laws because are way people have to behave to stay alive. When you made a pass at Tish you were violating a natural law... and almost caused you to breathe vacuum."

He blinked thoughtfully. "Would you explain the natural law I violated? I had better understand it... or best I return to my ship and stay inboard until lift. To stay alive."

"Certainly. Is so simple that, once you understand, you'll never be in danger from it again.

Here we are, two million males, less than one million females. A physical fact, basic as rock or vacuum. Then add idea of TANSTAAFL. When thing is scarce, price goes up. Women are scarce; aren't enough to go around--that makes them most valuable thing in Luna, more precious than ice or air, as men without women don't care whether they stay alive or not..."

I went on: "So what happens?--and mind you, things were even worse when this custom, or natural law, first showed itself back in twentieth century. Ratio was ten-to-one or worse then. One thing is what always happens in prisons: men turn to other men. That helps not much; problem still is because most men want women and won't settle for substitute while chance of getting true gelt.

"They get so anxious they will kill for it... and from stories oldtimers tell was killing enough to chill your teeth in those days. But after a while those still alive find way to get along, things shake down. As automatic as gravitation. Those who adjust to facts stay alive; those who don't are dead and no problem.

"What that means, here and now, is that women are scarce and call tune... and you are surrounded by two million men who see to it you dance to that tune. You have no choice, she has all choice. She can hit you so hard it draws blood; you dasn't lay a finger on her. Look, you put an arm around Tish, maybe tried to kiss. Suppose instead she had gone to hotel room with you; what would happen?"

"Heavens! I suppose they would have torn me to pieces."

"They would have done nothing. Shrugged and pretended not to see. Because choice is hers. Not yours. Not theirs. Exclusively hers. Oh, be risky to ask her to go to hotel; she might take offense and that would give boys license to rough you up. But--well, take this Tish. A silly little tart. If you had flashed as much money as I saw in your pouch, she might have taken into head that a bundle with tourist was just what she needed and suggested it herself. In which case would have been utterly safe."

38 posted on 02/06/2017 1:30:34 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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To: JoeFromSidney
In Robert Heinlein's novel THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS, the shortage of women on the Moon has exactly the result any free-market economist would expect: they are highly valued.

Precisely so. I just posted the relevant section from TMIAHM.

39 posted on 02/06/2017 1:33:34 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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To: elcid1970

“But you’ll never see a miniseries titled “The Muslimah’s Tale”.”

They’d have to call it “The Concubine’s Tale” for it to be accurate.


40 posted on 02/06/2017 1:42:46 PM PST by PLMerite
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