"The Handsmaid’s Tale" EP Warren Littlefield on “hauntingly relevant” dystopian drama, finding hope & mobilizing after Roe vs. Wade is overturned : television

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If there isn't a funco pop of it, the leftist mind cannot understand it.

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The scare-stories with which Atwood frigs her readers are distinguished by their foolish irrelevance. Take this alleged masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale. A foolish book, it depicts Heck as imagined by an anglo-Canadian mandarin: America ruled by savage uncultured Christians who not only repress all intellectual freedoms but would probably cut funding for genteel novelists. Worst of all, women in this Republic of Gilead are valued solely for their ability to bear children, restricted to the house and excluded from economic activity.

No one who knows anything about the way America works would ever really think that its rulers would want to let silly gender prejudices keep them from creating new consumers, much less let religion get in the way of productivity. The Baptist loonies are suckers to be wooed in election years, no more. They are useful as janitors in peacetime, cannon-fodder in war. Making them into the rulers of a nightmare vision of America is, by a charitable estimation, very naive. If we were to consider it less charitably, it might seem downright suspect. Atwood, who shares about 99.9% of her DNA with America’s real rulers, cannot see them at all, and so fails to notice their hegemony. As she confessed in boasting about her achievement in Handmaid’s Tale, she borrowed horror-stories about the treatment of women in loser countries like Iraq and applied them to the US. Apparently she could not see the horror which really does suffuse American life—a horror which has absolutely nothing to do with that losers’ club, Islam.

Handmaid’s Tale is meant to reassure every wretched office-worker who goes home to a cat, a VCR, and Pizza-for-one that her life is noble and progressive. Handmaid’s Tale is fun horror-fiction for women who work in the American-style cubicle-world precisely because it’s so utterly unrelated to the miseries and terrors of their own lives. No one wants to force middle-class American women to have babies. In fact, it’s almost impossible for them to contemplate having kids, because they’re terrified that it might set them back in their careers, and their rivals in the adjacent cubicles would grab their parking spaces and health plans. Nobody wants to use their bodies. That’s precisely the horror with which they live: no one wants to mate with them because in their world, every single striver must fear every other, and the sort of joint action involved in mating and rearing one’s young is impossible—laughable, a thing which only those who have abandoned the hope of A Career can contemplate. So in their minds, mating and rearing children moves down in class, becoming a thing for rednecks and (though they’ll never say this part out loud) immigrants-of-color. The desire to have children gets bounced outside oneself, onto these lesser beings, and returns, courtesy of Atwood, in demonized form, as the tyranny of procreation, family values and the Patriarchy. It’s the horror they love to fear.

And in the meantime, what has Atwood’s Utopia done, in real political terms? It has managed to distract a whole generation of Americanized women from the real fear and awful loneliness of their office lives. In this way, Atwood’s Canada of the Spirit is, like its real-world counterpart, the good-cop tool, the quaking valet of its Vampire master, America. Atwood’s Canada offers no answer to the Americanized women whose only family is Allie MacBeal and her friends. After all, they’re not rednecks, they’re not Fundamentalists. In fact, the horrible lives of every woman who tries to live out Allie MacBeal is rendered noble by reading Handmaid’s Tale.

So the owners of the cubicles rejoice in the intra-cranial vacations their slaves take in Atwood’s astral Canada. Let them crusade against the Republic of Gilead. Let them invest their wretched slaves’ lives with nobility. The real Republic of Gilead is a matter of dividends, not religion. It would never let the religious obsessions of its cannon-fodder voters interrupt the real business of America—the business carried out in the cubicles. If Allie and Margaret can scatter a cheap glitter over the walls of the cubicles, all the better.

someone email that polish guy our fax number

America: where guns have more rights than women

What does that even mean? Guns can have abortions in red states?

Pretty crazy that everything in this show and book has already happened to Black and Indigenous women (in America). People really look that over for some reason…

I will be an ally always and forever. I can’t overturn what my ancestors did but I will walk with you and support where I can. Édit: Just know that I know that we hurted your community probably without repear, I can’t make it right, I can’t give you back the children we stole. I did not do it but I will take the responsibility. And I will walk with you if you will have me.

Handmaid's tale fricking sucks.

It's a shit book, every character is psychopath or a perfectly moral victim.

There's no explanation as to why america became like this no motive, just everyone became evil for no reason.

Shows worse.

Wew lad, excellent replies you found

Snapshots:

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ironic giving the lead actress is in a legitimate cult:

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America: where guns have more rights than women.:

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I'm starting to believe "the bad guys" are using these dystopian books as blue prints, like it won't be long before the country is separated into groups for specific trades and then a kid from each district gets sacrificed.:

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Frick off with that comparision, every fricking time anything happens you people always compare shit to movies:

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Last time I remember everyone still has all the major rights and privileges that the constitution gives them. Nothing has been taken and nothing has been changed other than states now make decisions on abortion. If you can’t understand that then join the fetus deleted club:

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