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24. The story is allegorical

Sun Jul 1, 2018, 02:34 PM

Jul 2018

It is already happening. Christian right controls women's fertility (or does a damn good job trying): they wish to outlaw abortion and contraceptives even, curtail women's right to make decisions about their own bodies, force women to carry pregnancies to term,and pretty much only value them for their childbearing abilities. They even jail them for miscarrying. They believe in the subjugation of women to patriarchal control not excluding violence against them, even rape. They glorify stay-at-home privileged wives and seek to limit the majority of working women to menial jobs (Aunt Marthas), and even would like to determine what it is appropriate for women to wear. They want the government to be a theocracy, they defend Old Testament justice, they rule as an elite in a police state as part of the apparatus of control. They stifle dissent and disseminate propaganda 24/7.

Most of that sounds like where I live.

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So, I binge watched the 1st 2 seasons of The Handmaids Tale [View all] Funtatlaguy Jul 2018 OP

Most terrifying line in the whole series, I have always remembered "When they slaughtered Congress, dewsgirl Jul 2018 #1

There are so many terrifying lines. Funtatlaguy Jul 2018 #3

Rape scence S2 E10 "the Last Ceremony". dewsgirl Jul 2018 #5

If we don't get the vote out in November, we'll deserve what we've let happen to us... marble falls Jul 2018 #2

"We need to be as committed to change as much as they commit against change." volstork Jul 2018 #12

June mentions the frog being in water that gradually gets warmer onlyadream Jul 2018 #4

Aunt Lydia reminds me of Rudy Giuliani Funtatlaguy Jul 2018 #7

Aunt Lydia is in a bad spot. Alwaysna Jul 2018 #21

That actress, Ann Dowd, won an Emmy TexasBushwhacker Jul 2018 #37

She also had a big role in HBO's The Leftovers mantis49 Jul 2018 #42

You are right, only. I have friends who think the left and the media are just exaggerating the Nitram Jul 2018 #17

The Handmaid's Tale is more relevant now than . . . peggysue2 Jul 2018 #6

Yes, when the book originally came out NewJeffCT Jul 2018 #8

Atwood and Orwell were both prescient with their cautionary tales. forgotmylogin Jul 2018 #10

Atwood once made the point localroger Jul 2018 #32

It's not reality. gulliver Jul 2018 #9

what a ridiculous post ProfessorPlum Jul 2018 #15

Gulliver, I believe you are mistaken. The "It can't happen here" belief is the biggest weakness Nitram Jul 2018 #18

Umm, actually, yes it can.... paleotn Jul 2018 #23

The story is allegorical Generic Other Jul 2018 #24

I understand where you are coming from, that it's not reality LiberalLovinLug Jul 2018 #28

There are no androids in The Handmaid's Tale localroger Jul 2018 #33

the only thing they left out AmandaRuth Jul 2018 #11

Yes, that is another suspension of reality that is a little unbelievable LiberalLovinLug Jul 2018 #31

I read the book in college volstork Jul 2018 #13

I was prepared to lay down my life... N_E_1 for Tennis Jul 2018 #14

I read the Handmaid's Tale, but it doesn't go into the process that led to the premise of the book. Nitram Jul 2018 #16

Slowly, it does. Funtatlaguy Jul 2018 #20

In bits and pieces.... paleotn Jul 2018 #25

That's true to the book, though localroger Jul 2018 #34

I believe it was a nuclear war that triggered the crackdown on freedom Generic Other Jul 2018 #26

Generic, I remember thinking in 1984 that Reagan's election was the Nitram Jul 2018 #29

Now that you mention it Generic Other Jul 2018 #35

i read the book last year barbtries Jul 2018 #19

Check out 11.22.63 TexasBushwhacker Jul 2018 #38

In a fight for one's life, there's ALWAYS a little blood shed in the process. Texin Jul 2018 #22

It's from a novel,just like "1984" and "Gone With the Wind" virgogal Jul 2018 #27

It is a failure of the imagination to miss the truth in novels like 1984. Nitram Jul 2018 #30

I try VERY hard to never be meaningful----but so be it. virgogal Jul 2018 #39

May I say that you have succeeded in that. Nitram Jul 2018 #41

Thank you. virgogal Jul 2018 #43

Serena reminds me of the blond female conservative commentators who enable the worst of the movement EffieBlack Jul 2018 #36

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2018 #40