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Offline Sanguine

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Author: It Can Happen Here
« on: September 08, 2019, 08:03:48 pm »
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Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale" is a potential sign of things to come if women don't prepare themselves, says the original author of the books upon which the series is based.

Speaking with CBS News, Margaret Atwood said that she garnered her inspiration for the feminist dystopian novel about women being forced to produce babies for infertile wealthy elites after visiting several totalitarian (largely Communist) regimes in Eastern Europe.

"So, there I am in West Berlin surrounded by the wall, and I'm visiting various totalitarian regimes in East Germany and Czechoslovakia and Poland. So, for instance, Ceaușescu in Romania made a law that women had to have four babies, and they had to have a pregnancy test every month. And if they weren't pregnant, why not?"...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/51512/handmaids-tale-author-it-can-happen-here-paul-bois?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter

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Re: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Author: It Can Happen Here
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2019, 10:35:41 pm »
Yeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh ... I don't believe her claim to have been inspired by Eastern Bloc Communist countries. Her story is too unlike Communism and too obviously targeting Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christianity. For a dystopian novel inspired by Communism, look to 1984 or Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.
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Re: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Author: It Can Happen Here
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2019, 01:50:42 am »
Quote from: PeteS in CA on September 08, 2019, 10:35:41 pm
Yeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh ... I don't believe her claim to have been inspired by Eastern Bloc Communist countries. Her story is too unlike Communism and too obviously targeting Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christianity. For a dystopian novel inspired by Communism, look to 1984 or Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.
Especially considering Communist China still has a policy limiting women to two children, and even that's a loosening of the longstanding one-child policy.
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