But now that feminists are all for the complete commercial dehumanization of motherhood, it's OK. One more way for post-menopausal career women and homosexual couples to put in a purchase order for newborns. It's the great leap forward.
Class, discuss.
[ The Republic of Gilead is what America has become after the takeover of our nation by the theocrats. ]
They are called Socialists and their Religion is Communism....
[ One interesting thought: in 1985, Margaret Atwood’s tale could use “Christians” as its villains,even though gestational concubinage / surrogacy is considered morally offensive by every Christian commentator or denomination I’ve ever heard of. But it’s dehumanizing, depersonalizing — ghastly -— so a “talented” feminist novelist felt free (back then) to ascribe it to some whacked-out Christian theology. ]
When most all Liberal Control Freak Statists talk about the “Evils of Christianity” they are Projecting their inward wickerdness into their work.
It is a favorite book of mine, and truly chilling, but as a Christian, I never had a problem understanding that Christians do not consider reducing women to the status of breeding mares whose thoroughbred foals are sold to wealthy horse lovers-and that the author was missing the mark. The relegating of humans to the status of producers is something totalitarian states do-like China, or the former USSR. These people give adoption a bad name...
The movie was a libtard's vision of Christian governance, intended as a smear of evangelicals.
The theocracy unfolding in the real world is the religion of Marx/Molech.
There is no evil in Atwood’s novel that doesn’t have a an analogue of greater evil advocated and practiced by today’s “progressives.”
“Offred, as a former adulteress and the daughter of a feminist, is consigned to the role of Handmaid in this ugly new world.”
Yes, because adultery and feminism are so much more beautiful than totalitarianism. /s
Emphasis on 'whacked-out." I don't think even Atwood didn't mean to portray Gilead as the product of mainstream Christianity. Presumably those who think so, miss the number of places in the novel where they are said to be in a civil war with Baptist rebels.
Every month in her fertile period, Offred is required to have impersonal, wordless sex with the Commander while Serena sits by, holding her hands.