Oppressor Porn.
Liberals would rather believe a work of known fiction than open their eyes to a known reality...................
The Handmaids Tale is non-fiction...in nations like Malaysia, Iran and Saudi Arabia. But Atwood isn’t brave enough to take on true oppression of women.
The only Canadian woman nuttier than Margaret Trudeau.
Wondering what the handmaids will look like after they trade their bonnets for pu*sy hats...
Dear Canada an US....coming to a Muslim neighborhood near you.
Oh, forgot, already there.
Everyone looks at the Handmaid’s Tale as a criticism of how women are treated in society. And maybe that is what the author intended. But I look at it another way.
It isn’t a story about our current society. It is about a society that exists after some cataclysmic event happens which threatens the survival of the human race. Something has happened leaving all but a handful of women sterile. If any society was faced with such a threat of extinction, they would (and should) take drastic measures to survive.
During times of war we have had a draft. We, as a society, have decided that it is acceptable to take young men and force them against their will to serve in the military and go into battle. Men can be (and certainly have been) sent to their death. And they were given no choice. If they were to refuse, they would be jailed at best and quite possibly executed. And we, as a society, accept this as necessary. It doesn’t mean we like it - it just means we accept the reality that it is necessary at times.
If we were faced with extinction due to a lack of women who could reproduce, would we not fight to survive? I see the concept of the Handmaids as something similar to the draft. They are forced against their will to train for a service which they might not agree with. One which they might find horrendous. But it is one that is necessary to ensure survival. Some would volunteer willingly. Some would not like it, but go along because it was their duty. Some would only accept their role under threat of imprisonment or death. And some would fight against it.
That is what is told in the Handmaid’s Tale. I think it is a reasonably thought through premise of what would happen to society.
But I don’t see it as a criticism of that society.
Oh good, more man hate.....
Biggest mistake ever, listening to that stinking hot mess hoping for a story. Never again. That author, though laughing bank-ward, can keep any future drek to herself.
Never again!
KYPD
She sees the $$$$$, even if they are Canadian $$$$$.
I think that Atwood was prescient in seeing the rise of the Islamic patriarchy.
She identified the religion incorrectly but got everything else right about the Moslims and Islam.
Sequel? You mean it’s fiction? Or are you just carrying water for the white male oppressors....
Why doesn’t she write a true-to-life novel of women living under a strict sharia society? That might be something worth reading.
Anti-Christian filth and hate.