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The Handmaid’s Tale is a chilling expansion on Margaret Atwood’s novel
The Verge ^
| April 13, 2017
| Adi Robertson
Posted on 04/14/2017 9:53:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg
To: EveningStar
Has to be the most overrated dystopian novel ever. Nothing in the book has become anywhere close to reality. The Left luvs to being back Atwood anytime a Republican is in the White House.
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posted on
04/14/2017 9:56:47 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: EveningStar
Under Gilead’s police state, households are composed of high-status Wives; domestic Marthas; and the titular Handmaids, fertile women who are forced to bear children through ritualized sexual encounters with the household’s male “Commander.” Sounds like life under Islam.
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posted on
04/14/2017 9:56:58 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: EveningStar
A stupid, stupid book. Poorly written too.
Could have been a better concept if it had aimed at exposing backward, barbaric Islamic society, but as an attack on Christianity, the author showed herself to be an ignorant polemicist.
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posted on
04/14/2017 9:57:26 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: EveningStar
The series looks like crap. This review is crap. The “rolling back women’s rights” canard and the typical let’s-sneak-in-a-slam-against-Trump is getting really, really tiresome.
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posted on
04/14/2017 9:58:29 AM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
To: EveningStar
I just canceled HULU. Trash.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:01:45 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: EveningStar
“Make Margaret Sanger Dead Again” ......................
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:05:47 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
To: EveningStar
It is the Left’s fantasy that, somehow, fundamentalist Christians will seize control and reshape society. Meanwhile, they feign complete ignorance to the dangers posed by Muslim fundamentalists.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:10:19 AM PDT
by
rbg81
(Truth is stranger than fiction)
To: EveningStar
Of course it is feminist propaganda, like almost everything else in the media. There is no more murderous, vile, deranged, or totalitarian ideology than feminism. Cuck men allowed it to happen, and now civilization is disintegrating and murder on an industrial scale flourishes.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:14:16 AM PDT
by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: EveningStar
Pushing Handmaid’s Tale and 1984 to bolster the Official Reality that we are entering a police state.
It’s not like the government is using the IRS to suppress opposition organization, or is conducting mass surveillance of its citizens.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:22:16 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: C19fan
The novel actually is sort of close to the practice of Islam.
It is very far off from any Christian sect.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:23:25 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and hisHe's won supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: marktwain
The novel actually is sort of close to the practice of Islam. It is very far off from any Christian sect.You think the rubes will understand that?
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:24:44 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: marktwain
[ The novel actually is sort of close to the practice of Islam.
It is very far off from any Christian sect. ]
The left believes in overbearing government and loves to defend sharia...
They then accuse US as being overbearing and wanting a theocracy...
If there was an Olympic event for projection, the libs would be winning the gold for the rest of eternity.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:38:24 AM PDT
by
GraceG
("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
To: C19fan; PapaBear3625
Has to be the most overrated dystopian novel ever. Nothing in the book has become anywhere close to reality.
Actually, as PapaBear3625 points out, it is a clear description of life in muzzieland, and has been that way since the mid 600s.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:44:18 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(Trump++)
To: C19fan
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:50:32 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: achilles2000
Feminist man hating religion hating porn.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:51:21 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: EveningStar
the misogynist thread in American populism.Stopped reading right there.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:58:36 AM PDT
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: EveningStar
In other words, a progressive wet dream.
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posted on
04/14/2017 10:58:45 AM PDT
by
D_Idaho
("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...".)
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