Okay, I never read the Handmaid's Tale, and so my understanding of it is second and third hand. But from what I understand, women are severely oppressed, treated as second-class citizens, and not even permitted to read. Or so wikipedia tells me.
So I'm struggling to reconcile the image of women in that book with Amy Coney Barrett's lifelong career as a highly-educated lawyer and judge.
This isn’t a time for reason and logic, it’s all about panic and emotion ... it’s all the Democrats have at this point
So it’s “anyone-connected-to-Trump = secret Nazi” all over again
The Handmaid's Tale was written in 1985, a relic of the Reagan era, and imagines a future where Moral Majority, 700 Club, Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell types of Christians are in charge and have implemented the type of Bible-based theocracy that liberals all throughout the 1980s predicted would happen.
Watching the show today the whole premise now seems laughably preposterous and dated.
This future does exist today in places like Saudi Arabia and Iran but fans of the book get angry when you make this comparison.
The political and powerful create a slave race to breed children for those who don’t want to be inconvenienced or can’t conceive.
In some ways, it reminds me more of “Hunger Games” or “Soylent Green” than anything remotely similar to Pro-life Americans.
I have not read the book, but from what I understand, it’s based on a society with Sharia Law.
The book presents a fictional America that looks like ISIS took over.
Liberals in academia assign it in many programs as required reading. And some demonize Christians as wanting to really do this.
There are a lot of liberal conversation threads saying she’s a Serena, the evil privileged white Christian woman who will put everyone else in de facto burqas. Or she’ll be an Aunt, supervising sex slaves and telling them to stay home barefoot and pregnant.
Yes. As is the case with most lies, there was no truth to it.