Posted on 07/24/2018 12:20:11 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Protesters dressed as oppressed women from the Handmaid's Tale take to the streets of Philadelphia to protest against 'anti-women' Mike Pence
Dozens of demonstrators dressed as characters from the novel-turned-TV series 'The Handmaid's Tale' descended on downtown Philadelphia on Monday to protest Vice President Mike Pence's visit.
They wore red cloaks and white bonnets and chanted 'this nightmare must end.'
'The Handmaid's Tale' imagines a future in which women's rights have been stripped away. Protesters said they are opposed to Trump administration policies on abortion rights, LGBT rights, immigration and other issues.
Pence spoke in the afternoon at an event promoting the administration's tax-cutting law. He was later headlining a fundraiser for Rep. Lou Barletta, who is seeking to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey.
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My liberal friend has encouraged me to watch this series. She directly equates this fictional BS to how Republicans act.
I have ZERO desire to waste my time on such hateful and shallow predictions.
Your date was about 40 minutes to long.
Never should have gotten the vote.
Outside of the infertility backdrop the handmaid’s tale is an exact picture of women and how they are treated in Muslims societies.
Feminists don’t care nothing about the real plights of women, only made up leftist nonsense ones.
It's called islam.
So they are dressed like oppressed Moslim Women??
This piffle is what passes for great literature today among the 300 lb. female club these days.
If I ever met that anti-Christian bigot and Scientologist twat, Elisabeth Moss, I’d make her eat that f’ing hat.
Who?
I never read the Handmaids Tale, but I did have to study some other of Margaret Attwood’s drivel for a literature class in Science Fiction. High concept SF, what Heinlien called ‘what would happen if’ stories, depends on consistently and logically developing the social and personal consequences of the story’s technological, sociological and psychological premise(s). Attwood’s story development, like many of the other 70’s Feminist SF writers such as Joanna Russ, was illogical, disconnected from any realistic historical or sociological precedents, and worst of all, inconsistent.
I developed a theory of literary criticism of my own, to describe this kind of writing; I called it unintentional irony, the writing of the exact opposite of what the author supposedly meant to say. Chaucer did it deliberately in the Canterbury Tales, having the character Chaucer say things about the other characters that was in direct contrast to how Chaucer the author described them. Margaret Mitchell perhaps did something like it in Gone With The Wind (although her irony may have been unintentional instead). But Attwood and the other ‘70’s Feminist SF writers (including some of the male ones) were surely blissfully unaware that what they wrote contradicted what they apparently wanted the reader to take away from their writings.
I was warned NOT to publish my thesis in the fan literature, if I valued my life and reputation. My SF professor did not have a high opinion of my theory, but my literature prof thought it had some merit, as a basis for discussion, but didn’t believe it.
Mike Pence is such an everyday guy. The reaction to him is psychotic.
Thank you for posting that!
There it is!
Such nice, normal people.
I’ve been watching it as well.
From the beginning, I’ve equated it to life under Islamic rule. It’s happening now. Especially with the ‘no school or reading allowed’ law. It’s how women live under the Taliban. Very heartbreaking to think about it.
But, as for entertainment... I’m enjoying it - in its own stressful kind of way. It’s starting to become redundant with June escaping and ending back at the Waterford’s tho. June’s facial expressions is getting a bit old. The actress that plays Serena is quite good to be able to yank viewers around the way she does. . One minute she’s compassionate, the next she’s hateful.
Well, we’re down to cosplay as a political statement. The people doing it appear to be blissfully unaware that it’s self-parody.
I think they should be in burkas ... because the dystopia they are describing fits the Moslem world very well.
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