Posted on 07/19/2019 8:45:51 AM PDT by Morgana
In this latest season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the series has been unusually spiteful towards religious people. Of course, the premise of a religious takeover of the United States forcing women into slavery was never going to be flattering, but this year has been much harsher with Christians defacing monuments and priests being called child molesters. This week, we see a retread of the old pro-choice claim that pro-lifers and religious people treat women as “vessels” for growing babies.
The July 17 episode “Heroic” focuses mostly on the hospitalization of the pregnant Handmaid Ofmatthew (Ashleigh LaThrop). Last week, she was shot by an officer after threatening another handmaid with a gun and now lies in critical condition. Our protagonist June (Elizabeth Moss) has been assigned to pray over her for the duration of her stay, so we mostly follow her inner rantings as the stress of constant kneeling and praying drives her insane.
Despite that, however, she remains lucid enough to provide progressive commentary. As June watches doctors work on the handmaid, she notes to herself that Ofmatthew is “just a vessel now, and the baby is all that matters.” In a more sardonic tone, she remarks, “I suppose that it’s all that ever mattered.”
It’s the usual drivel we hear about pro-life defenders, that they treat women as just baby vessels and sending them back to the dark ages. To hammer the point home, she makes a similar comment to a doctor as he stitches her hand. She even manages a reference to her feminist, pro-abortion mother.
[Slightly graphic with hand stitching]
June: Thank you.
Doctor Yates: I took an oath.
June: First do no harm.
Doctor Yates: Am I harming you?
June: You’re torturing her.
Doctor Yates: She’s not my patient, the child is.
June: That’s bullshit. Sir.
Doctor Yates: Hold still.
June: My mother was a doctor. She treated pregnant women. And she always put her patients, the women, first.
Doctor Yates: Oh, things were different when she practiced medicine. Did she get out?
June: No.
Doctor Yates: I’m sure you miss her.
When a woman is pregnant, there are two patients, but the pro-abortion side always wants to pit the mother against her child in a zero sum game.
Because of the context of The Handmaid’s Tale, namely that they’re in the middle of a fertility crisis, it’s not like the show’s going to start advocating abortion. Unfortunately, the characters still seem determined to push the idea that protecting the unborn baby is somehow not protecting women. And this is supposed to make real-life pro-life and religious leaders look bad.
“Do no harm” means doing no harm to all living, human beings, and that includes the unborn.
Wasn’t America supposed to devolve into a handmaids type society if Kavanaugh was on the Supreme Court? Whatever happened with that?
A show made by people who know nothing about the subject they say the show is about.
As opposed to the real world where gay couples hire 3rd world women to serve as "vessels" for their children.
The violent annhilation of Christianity is the core motivation of Democrats.
I was an avid fan of the TV Series “Stargate SG-1” for a number of years, when the arch-villains of the universe were modeled after the Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, called “The Gua’uld”. However, after several seasons, the Gua’uld had been killed off and they needed some new villains.
After a brief period with a nasty named “Ba’al”, the team found themselves on a new planet where the people looked and acted like Amish Folks, and they were in bondage to a particularly evil group of oppressors called “The Ori”. At first it seemed like a take on Islam, as all the people were mandated to publicly engage in prayer every day for certain hours. But then the imagery, music, language, actions became an obvious parody of Christianity. I stopped watching the series and never looked back, not even for reruns of the good ones. They just lost me entirely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ori_(Stargate)
That’s an actual show?
I’ll be.....
I thought it was a Heinz Ketchup commercial.
Ironically, the people who are now using women as “vessels” - as hired baby machines - are homosexuals.
If it’s still on the air someone is watching it.
I never give the show a second’s thought once I found out what it was about.
We can’t stop people from watching.
But we can NOT watch it.
Trust the Democrats to latch on to one distopia after another and prophesize the world is coming to an end. Fear is at the root of how they want to control you.
Oh I do just to see what they are putting out every week.
People show up at pro abortion rallies dressed up as handmaids. So yes, women are watching this.
Not sure if we were watching the same show. I did not see the same things as you did.
The producers are clearly still in full post-Kavanaugh hissy fit mode.
I attended a NOW conference in 1987 -- as a spy --- and recorded a panel discussion in which it was agreed that the breaking of these bonds was not a regrettable side-effect: it was the goal.
Heterosexuals messed this up good, way before the homosexuals got ahold of it.
From interviews I’ve read with the author, she really was a Christophobe. She was honestly afraid that the Jerry Falwell types would lead to a Christian Taliban.
The liberal hatred of Christianity is why “The Handmaid’s Tale” is required reading in so many colleges, including mine. It fits perfectly with their hateful stereotypes of conservatives and Christians, that those people who gave women the vote and equal rights are secretly slobbering in lust to put women in burqas and rape them, then oppressing them with babies. That’s why there was even an “audience” for the TV show that gave it critical acclaim.
They really do believe their hateful stereotypes of Christians and conservatives, and then use those vicious negative stereotypes to justify systematic oppression OF Christians and conservatives.
All while they justify or minimize Islamic oppression by the Taliban, ISIS, Boko Haram. ISIS had AUNTS, female enforcers and women who supervised the sex slaves. But you aren’t allowed to talk about THAT.
For instance, should frozen embryos be handled under Family Law or under Property Law? If you have leftover frozen embryos and the original couple divorces, what do we have on our hands: a custody battle, or a property battle? If they are not our sons and daughters, are they the equivalent of cans of paint left in the back of the garage?
The woman exclaimed in exasperation: "... and the only institution which DOES have a coherent philosophy on this, is the Catholic Church!"
Which is why they are engaged in their ultimate insider-job, the controlled demolition project to take down the Church, --- as we speak.
I guess we all see things differently.
The costumes were very similar to “The Handmaid’s Tale”, the Ori dressed like Medieval monks, and the music was based upon Gregorian Chant, so the connection was formed in my mind.
It ruined the series for me.
Yup. God wins in the end but it will be a rough road. See Daniel and Revelations.
PS They have no idea about the literally eternal Hell they are buying for themselves.
Well stated.
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