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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Could Happen to Us
Daily Beast ^ | Apri 29, 2017 | Toure

Posted on 05/01/2017 7:22:48 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yeah, Natasha Richardson, late wife of Liam Neeson, who thinks guns are to blame for his wife’s skiing accident.


21 posted on 05/01/2017 8:07:01 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: mouse_35

I remember the whole thing was really lame. I was a big science fiction fan back then and I thought that one would be something...different in science fiction. Nope. It was just dumb. Nowadays, I’d stop reading probably a quarter of the way into a book like that. They seldom redeem themselves in later chapters.


22 posted on 05/01/2017 8:08:49 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: C19fan

Without lowering myself to actually watching the new series, can someone give the depicted cause of womb control?
The first movie version (and presumably the book) depicted some grave disease leading to widespread infertility (likewise “Children of Men” which took it more completely); whether it’s depicted likewise, or changed to a sociopolitical compulsion, makes a big difference to the story even if it plays out equally.


23 posted on 05/01/2017 8:32:14 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Mr. Douglas

That’s what I recall (from the movie), that most (not all) women were sterile.

If _men_ were mostly sterile, the whole story would have played out very different - women paying to copulate with fertile men, rattling social structures but still on the whole getting all desiring women pregnant - akin to a culture getting most of-age men killed off in a war and the survivors coming home to a plethora of willing women. With proper planning & timing, one man could impregnate >365 women per year.

But with _women_ being mostly sterile, and the impregnation/gestation cycle being upwards of a year minimum, and a plethora of capable men facing a minuscule number of fertile (and not currently pregnant) women, demand for wombs would be extremely high & costly, complicated by the seething jealousy of the infertile. Much more interesting story.

Hence I’m wondering whether the current series is based on biological infertility, or sociopolitical oppression. If the latter, I’m not interested (shoot the oppressors & propagate the species accordingly).


24 posted on 05/01/2017 8:47:38 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: C19fan

If we are going to dredge up old stories and make new movies out of them we might as well also do SHADOW ON THE LAND. Remember that one from about 1968?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_on_the_Land

Maybe combine all the stories in one! Shadow on the land, brave new world, 1984, The handmaiden’s tale,
oh yes lets not forget the original TV series “V” (Shadow on the land with aliens).


25 posted on 05/01/2017 8:47:41 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
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To: ctdonath2

Yes. Men being sterile is counter to the whole premise. It was most women who were sterile. That’s the whole point of the cultural shift exposed in the movie.


26 posted on 05/01/2017 8:55:19 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: C19fan

>>>‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Could Happen to Us<<<

I’m far more concerned about the Democrats using “The Gulag Archipelago” as their guide to ideal governance.


27 posted on 05/01/2017 8:56:41 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: C19fan

What group could pull off a post apocalyptic take down of the constitution and create a slave state? Moslems? Mormons? definitely not the establishment presbyerians, methodists, episcopalions, and lutherans and definitely not the social justice warrior catholics and happy charismatic evangelicals. The only group vying for this honor in the long run is the Sharia Law Moslems. Too bad the TV people and Margaret Atwood live in the 20th century bubble and are unaware of the 2017 realtiy.


28 posted on 05/01/2017 9:05:22 AM PDT by x_plus_one ( I pray Gods eyes may once again gaze upon me and remind me that I am still His child.)
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To: C19fan

She missed the Obamas “bleeding” all over the American culture and life.


29 posted on 05/01/2017 10:29:40 AM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites being racially harassed and harmed by Leftist in power need to sue! It's pay day.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If this type of dystopian culture arises it will be from the atheistic left, not from the Christian right. No one else in our modern society so epitomizes the suppression of rights and freedom, nor longs so deeply for the “right” to control the lives of others or eradicate those who disagree with them.


30 posted on 05/01/2017 1:16:05 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: C19fan

“The Bush administration used the threat of terror to fundamentally change American society”

uhhhh, I think 9/11 had a bit to do with that (and child sacrifice).


31 posted on 05/01/2017 2:24:01 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: C19fan

“But Trump’s impact is so large and so pervasive that he infects everything.”

ROTFL—You want to know why it wasn’t done during the last administration?


32 posted on 05/01/2017 2:26:01 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: C19fan
Kind of a surprise.

I assumed a feminist wrote the article and it would have something to do with women.

Wrong-headed, certainly, but somehow relevant to the show.

Instead it's by Touré and just a not very interesting or perceptive attack on Trump and his "soul-crushing government."

He may not even have watched the show.

33 posted on 05/01/2017 2:46:30 PM PDT by x
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