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[blakes_7]

I had a rather stupid and chauvinistic response to "A Handmaid's Tale" when it first came out. I'd thought (without proof) that it was trying to lay the blame of all women's ills at the feet of men (something I have a huge problem with - one group vilifying another). I think this was mostly due to what I saw of the movie. (Unless I conflated two

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[stockykub1973]

Never judge a book by it's Hollywood version...

One hopes that Sarah Palin and her ilk realise just how much they will have themselves to blame if god-forbid the Republic of Gilead ever happened.

[blakes_7]

It rather boggles my mind to think of the people who openly and unabashedly wish for America to become a theocracy. And that some of these people are women (like Palin) is even more ludicrous. America was a theocracy when the puritans first came over here. From the sounds of it, it wasn't all that great. (And this was from a Catholic school.) Do we really need to point to fundamentalist countries in the middle east to show how oppressed people are under these regimes? Do they honestly realize that their version of Christianity is almost guaranteed not to be the version that gets enforced here?!

These people are the worst of the worst. They either don't know, and are assuming these positions to gain pander to the fundamentalists. Or they do know, and they have no qualms about abolishing other people's rights in the name of some badly translated ancient text.

Are the Scottish this insane? :-)