still don’t get it.
It’s a reference to the Handmaid’s Tale
I see no way that Republicans eliminate women’s right to vote. In order to abolish it they would have to have such absolute power as to make elections irrelevant. And if elections are irrelevant why would they bother disenfanchising women. It’s better optics to allow them to be included among the 98% who voted in favor of Trumps 5th term.
To publicly humiliate women. and as part of the process of reducing them to chattel slaves without rights of any kind. You don’t let animals vote, and if anything they want to reduce women to a lesser status than animals.
Thank you.
@Northern_Piper , if you want to know more, then you need to read The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Or see the movie. It is a dystopian nightmare, that takes place in the United States.
There is a TV series that follows the book. I will say no more, lest there be spoilers.
So, non-fiction section I guess.
Sorry, could not help it.
Some of the parallels between the franchise and the real world are why it got so wildly popular. Granted, the people that made the TV series (based on a 30 year old book) got ‘lucky’ in that it aired right around Trump’s first term.
From wiki
Fitting with her statements that The Handmaid’s Tale is a work of speculative fiction, not science fiction, Atwood’s novel offers a satirical view of various social, political, and religious trends of early Puritanism in the United States. Atwood notes that “[n]ations never build apparently radical forms of government on foundations that aren’t there already,” and further describes the novel’s setting as a potential cover story for how someone might seize power in the United States*.* Such a situation, argues Atwood, would “need only the opportunity of a period of social chaos to reassert itself.”[13]
That line about ‘social chaos’ seems about right.
That wasn’t just incidental; the shows creators recognized the significant backlash against progressivism and rise of the Christian Nationalist movement with a focus on ‘fertility’ and aspirations to limit womens’ participation in the workforce. For that matter, Atwood intuited this back in 1985 when the novel was first published with the rise of the ‘Moral Majority’ backing an emergent dominance of the conservative wing of the Republican party, although she never intended the the story to be prescience; she made the ‘Sons of Jacob’ to be ridiculously over the top to illustrate how radical religious fanaticism could drive sociopolitical movements without trying to seem that the novel was a roman à clef of the Evangelical movement behind the ‘Reagan Right’. In retrospect, it seems she didn’t make it absurd enough as the novel seems to have served as an unintentional blueprint for the Heritage Foundation and their Project 2025 and the Phoenix Declaration, which basically could have been fanfic of the world of ‘Gilead’ that Atwood created for the novel.
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