Thoughts on Margaret Atwood?

Those who read her books, what are your honest thoughts on them? I know her works are famous for being foidshit :marseywomenrentfree: , still that doesn't mean they aren't well written.

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TabbyChristmasmacy Thy/Thou 11mo ago #5552843

Her academic work on Canadian literature is really interesting. Handmaids Tale was garbage by someone who didn't have the balls to write about the Islamists she was actually inspired by.

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nuclearshill gau/cho TabbyChristmasmacy 11mo ago #5552853

someone who didn't have the balls to write about the Islamists she was actually inspired by

The book and show give me some “what if Iran, but instead of Iranians it's the white North American women who are opressed” vibes

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TabbyChristmasmacy Thy/Thou nuclearshill 11mo ago #5553009

Which actually would be an interesting premise if the author had done any research into the theological form a weird American fundamentalism might actually take instead of putting a bow on a Berkeley fever dream and calling it a day.

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nuclearshill gau/cho TabbyChristmasmacy 11mo ago #5553044

Gilead's theology, government and society are nonsensical and without any historical basis. She said she was inspired by the 17th century New England Puritans, however the Puritans for all their faults did teach their women to read and write, the Bible was present in their daily lives. In Atwood's Republic of Gilead, the evil cartoonish misogynist government bans women from reading to the point of banning all written word from public sight, every single street name and traffic sign, shop name and grocery labels is removed and replaced with pictograms. I can understand some plot about “young girls are not being taught to read and write anymore” but the whole sign banning was just so ludicrous and done solely to make their one-dimensional villains even more wicked.