Posted on 05/17/2019 1:10:20 PM PDT by Morgana
Handmaids are everywhere these days.
The red robes and white bonnets made famous in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel-turned-streaming-sensation first showed up in Texas. Then they spread — throughout the country, over the ocean and eventually into a Senate office building where the women wearing them loomed over lawmakers scheduled to decide whether Brett M. Kavanaugh deserved a spot on the Supreme Court.
Now Kavanaugh has his seat, and abortion rights activists have their uniform. News outlets covering the crusade by lawmakers in conservative states to stop women from ending their pregnancies seem to have settled on a favorite featured photo in turn. So when the public thinks about Roe v. Wade, it thinks about “The Handmaid’s Tale.” And when we think about the activists fighting for women to control their own wombs, we think about them wearing red and white.
But should we?
“Fight to keep fiction from becoming reality,” exhorts the Handmaid Coalition, which helps organize events and even offers instructions for garb assembly. Fiction is the imaginary country of Gilead, the theocratic realm Atwood sent to the bestsellers’ list in 1985. Reality is America, right now.
The comparison has some power. The title character of Atwood’s creation, remade for millennials on Hulu two years ago, is treated as a human incubator. The laws that states are adopting this spring banning abortions at the first detection of a “heartbeat,” or prohibiting them outright as Alabama did this week, also yank any semblance of bodily autonomy away from women.
The spectacle, too, has been effective. Those women standing silent outside the Kavanaugh hearings, all in carmine, looked like a work of art, and like art, they had a visceral impact. They didn’t make people think so much as they made them feel — our throats tightened, our stomachs clenched.
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I am getting tired of people quoting that stupid book/movie as if it was a &^%$#@! documentary!!!!!
The Handmaid’s Tale vs modern reality of tattoos, obesity, STD’s, riding the c__k carousel, gallons of wine and Xanax from 35 on, lots of cats and no children, but a great career of sitting in a cubical entering data into a spreadsheet all day. I hope they keep doing the Handmaid’s bit. It’s hilarious.
It has the same impact as chanting, “Hey hey, Ho ho, some feigned outrage has to go!”
IIRC, Atwood’s original novel is set in an Islamic culture.
I’ll never understand the mind of a far-Left Liberal woman.
How can you be pro-murder of un-or-just-born babies, but then try to PROTECT the lives of criminal illegal aliens and those who have TAKEN a life (or two, or more!) on Death Row?
If they had horns and a pitchfork they’d look like Lucifer. They’re at least his minions.
... activists fighting for women to control their own wombs...
These loaded phrases all mean death to an unborn baby.
But the most sardonic of them all: reproductive freedom. They all mean the same thing: I want to murder a developing human being before he can voice his objection. Before he can express his own "right to choose".
And I'm tired of reading any more from the Washington Pish and New York Slimes. They lost their right to be called journalists years and years ago.
“Funny how the liberals overlook the fact that the original novel was about an Islamic leadership.”
No, it wasn’t. It was about a group called Sons of Jacob. There are lots of Biblical names in the book.
A similar novel, and a movie made from it, “The World According to Garp”, has a theme similar to the Handmaidens with a cult called the “Ellen Jamesians”.
Garp, born out of wedlock to Jenny, a World War II nurse that took care of seriously wounded veterans returned from the front, was coming of age with a seriously strained relationship with his mother. Garp is attempting to become a writer, but has had only modest success.
Jenny’s life is pretty different now, to say the least. She had submitted her story to John Wolf, who was shocked to realize that he had a bona fide bestseller on his hands. Jenny’s mother passes away. This causes her to act a little strange: She now surrounds herself with an entourage of her female supporters. One day, Jenny shows up at Garp’s apartment with a tough-looking but completely silent woman. Garp tries to coax her into talking, but Jenny explains that the woman doesn’t have a tongue. It turns out that the woman is a member of the “Ellen Jamesian” movement, founded in honor of Ellen James, an eleven year-old girl whose tongue was cut out by her rapists. Disgruntled women formed the Ellen James Society, each member cutting their own tongue out as a symbolic gesture. Ellen Jamesians communicate exclusively through notes, which Garp finds very disconcerting.
A very riveting story, to say the least.
Were pushing a lie - but is there any consequence for that?
“Time to switch to burkas.” Lol, you summed up their irrationality.
Boom!
Well, she half gets it at least.
She thinks that the EVIL REPUBLICANS are the ones trying to limit her “sexual freedom” by forcing her to accept consequences of recreational sex.
In actually, it is a LOVING GOD who instituted those consequences, to encourage us to enjoy our human sexuality in a responsible way. Republicans just accept that and act accordingly, while Democrats rebel and act insensibly.
Even as it celebrates the hijab and the burka, the left derides IMAGINARY Christian women wearing male-mandated clothing with a similar purpose - modesty and submission.
Every time the atheists say that only Christians can be pro-life, by they're own logic they're the ones who define atheists as bloodthirsty baby butchers.
LOL!
Now 5 fat lesbos dressed in “carmine” are an art installation. Michaelangelo wept!
I was at a bookstore today and they had THE HANDMADEN’S TALE in a graphic novel format, what we used to call a “FUNNYBOOK”. Opened it, took a look and put it back on the shelf. Not worth even reading or stealing. A waste of time.
In the same store, I bought the novel, WAR AND PEACE, and the DVD set,I CLAUDIUS. I leave trash for the mental retards.
I’ve read and reviewed a lot of young adult and dystopian fiction. I was asked, “Don’t you think it can be real? Don’t you see it becoming real?”
“Sure, in ISIS, Taliban, Boko Haram and other territories. ISIS had sex slaves AND Aunts. They all execute homosexuals and atheists. But it is insane to be afraid Christians are going to go jihadi.”
These liberal bullies don’t realize how cruel it is to smear Christians as wanna-be Taliban and then ignore or excuse the repeated Islamic oppression around the world.
There’s actually a book of that title, a pro-Trump short story collection that came out to counter the literally dozens of anti-Trump dystopian short story collections that hit after the 2016 election.
MAGA 2020 & Beyond by Jon Del Arroz (Author), & 22 more
https://www.amazon.com/MAGA-2020-Beyond-Milo-Yiannopoulos-ebook/dp/B075YF99P4
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