Posted on 08/19/2018 8:07:39 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Actress and activist Alyssa Milano on Sunday shared a photo of her dressed up like one of the characters in “The Handmaid’s Tale” to protest President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Milano posted the picture of herself in the signature red cloak and white hat associated with handmaids, the oppressed women from Margaret Atwood’s 1987 novel and the hit Hulu television show.
Alyssa Milano ✔ @Alyssa_Milano #RiseUpForRoe #WeAreNotProperty #StopKavanaugh
Alyssa Milano protests Kavanaugh in 'Handmaid's Tale' costume © Getty images Actress and activist Alyssa Milano on Sunday shared a photo of her dressed up like one of the characters in “The Handmaid’s Tale” to protest President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Milano posted the picture of herself in the signature red cloak and white hat associated with handmaids, the oppressed women from Margaret Atwood’s 1987 novel and the hit Hulu television show.
“Never Kavanaugh, Never Gilead,” Milano’s sign read, referencing the dystopian nation that has overtaken the U.S., in which women have been stripped of reproductive autonomy.
The costume has become a popular form of protest among activists supporting women’s reproductive rights.
Critics of the Trump administration have drawn comparisons between the fictional regime running Gilead and the administration’s rhetoric on abortion, LGBTQ rights and religious freedom.
Atwood said earlier this year that the U.S. was becoming more “Gilead-like” under Trump.
Milano is in Phoenix, Ariz., participating in the “Rise Up for Rose” tour named in honor of the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
The 10-city, 14-day coast-to-coast tour is organized to “call out the threat to the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion that Kavanaugh’s nomination poses to women across the country,” a press release said.
The group is teaming up with the Demand Justice Initiative, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Abortion rights groups fear that Kavanaugh could take a more conservative stance on abortion as he would replace swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The hat is all wrong. It should be more like one of those dog funnels. :P
My childhood crush is a moron. So sad.
Alyssa would kill to be cast in that show.
This is a sick, BS PR stunt by Hulu / NBC.
/cartmann laugh
Just wait, when Ruth Buzzard croaks, there will be a new level of hysteria and hyperbole. Its time to buy stocks in pharmaceuticals
If Handmaid’s Tale had an ounce of credibility, those women would be in cheerleader costumes...or maybe nurse’s uniforms...
An actress dresses herself up in a make believe costume from a work of fiction... and it is national news???
These people are just nuts on a whole other level.
How bizarre these Hollywood idiots and other assorted radical types can be
Forget the sex for now. How about women going back to cooking and keeping house? That would improve society immensely.
Weirdo.
Picture of another Hollywood Stoopid.
A has-been speaks.
Lord this woman is deeply, deeply ignorant and brainwashed. Sad indeed. Lost. Not unlike the Charles Manson cultists.
If Handmaid’s Tale had an ounce of credibility, those women would be in wearing hijabs, be shackled, raped at age 8-12, and burned alive in steel cages.
Oh wait. That is the Muslim culture does to women who do what this actress does on a daily basis.
mind numbingly stupefying.
Millions upon millions of young men died in wars in the twenty century, and clowns such as Milano dress as fantasy/fictional characters, and imagine They are the ones maltreated.
She wants Nanners job.
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