Posted on 04/14/2017 9:53:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
In recent months, The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel about a patriarchal future where fertile women are a tightly controlled commodity — has become more of a symbol than a piece of fiction. From a “Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again” sign at a protest to women protesting a restrictive abortion law in costume, it offers a form of protest that cuts straight to the misogynist thread in American populism. Hulu, which will premiere an adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale on April 26th, couldn’t have asked for better publicity.
But The Handmaid’s Tale is more than a political jab. In the first three episodes provided to reviewers, it’s a dystopia that manages to stand out in a television landscape already full of apocalypses and oppressive imaginary societies. It’s a colorful TV series about a woman negotiating domestic drama, and judging from its initial installments — all three of which will be released simultaneously on April 26th — it might be one of the darkest shows on television this year.
In both book and series, The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in the near future — in the book, the 1980s, and on the show, in the late 2010s. A fertility crisis has paved the way for Christian fundamentalists to seize power in the United States, founding a rigidly patriarchal theocracy called Gilead. 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.” One of those women is Offred (Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss), an ordinary 21st century working woman who’s now living in a surreal nightmare.
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“... a patriarchal future where fertile women are a tightly controlled commodity ....”
Forget the future, it sounds like present-day Saudi Arabia, where ALL aspects of womanhood are tightly controlled, period.
Why is the insane left telling another right-wing boogieman story?
They have the current realities of molotov cocktail tossing muslim `no go’ sharia law zones overseas and the cartel-caused Chiraq, Motown and El Lay drug and violence ridden urban nightmares across the country, thanks to a quarter-century of their open borders.
Because, like demented Igor cattleprod shocking the Wolfman in `Van Helsing’—it’s what they do.
Can’t wait for the Hollywood treatment of “Alph”.
The Left is devoted to The Revolution. To have a Revolution, one must have a despotic oppressor to revolt against. Ergo, they have defined & designated the Conservative/Christian/white/patriarchy as the target of Revolution. Not taking “yes” as an answer, the Left does everything possible to construe their designated enemy as a villain to rail & revolt against, hence the fantasy you refer to. Believing “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, the Left concludes that Islam is their friend, not realizing how Islam hates the Left even more.
The thing that makes for good dystopian sci fi is that the work has a resonable shot at predicting the near future. Orwell, the works of Philip K. Dick, Ghost in the Shell, etc. Fertile woman as high value? The last thing a young man wants today is a fertile woman.
....not realizing how Islam hates the Left even more.
One of the things that I found interesting about the Book is that they forgot that women had no value as anything but breeders before Christianity.
Those that don’t read history are bound .......
The women of Israel were praised and valued - Deborah the Judge, the woman in Proverbs 31, Esther the Persian queen and many others.
It is the embodiment of the liberal secular fear of a Christian theocracy taking over, ironically, though, liberals ignore Islam’s REAL and multiple theocracies from Saudi Arabia to Iran to Boko Haram to Al Shabab.
Instead, they create a fiction of Christian theocrats making women wear color coded burkas.
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