"The Handmaid's Tale" on Hulu

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What demented minds thought up this trash? What do you think of it?
 
On behalf of sane Canada, I apologize for this slanderous drivel.
 
It is based on a book which I read eons ago. I have no desire to see this production.
It was a weird story.
 
They forced me to read it in high school. It was a ridiculous idea. Right in the same decade, under President Reagan, when women became the equals of men in any relevant sociological metric, Atwood tries to whip up feminist hysteria about some Christian Reganite bogey man coming to oppress women.

Noli te bastardes carborundum…
 
I wonder what the response would be if Margaret Atwood had set the story in an Islamic society?
 
Kaninchen said:
There’s a march forum on CAF?
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Lol no I’m saying there would have been a march against it, like they would organize some kind of protest.
Jokes ruined now bahaha.
Unless you meant something else that went over my head. Either way:blush:
 
ellam25 said:
Lol no I’m saying there would have been a march against it, like they would organize some kind of protest.
Jokes ruined now bahaha.
Unless you meant something else that went over my head. Either way:blush:
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I should have been clearer in my original post. I should have said “response here on CAF.”
 
It’s a dystopian story, it’s meant to show a fictionalized society as unpleasant and dehumanizing as possible.
 
Just tossing in my two cents. I think the book is brilliant, and I love this adaptation.
 
I enjoyed the book as a work of fiction. Scary, sad, thought-provoking.

I’ll see the movie when the public library gets it on DVD.
 
Terrifying book, and yes, it’s dystopian fiction. Much like Brave New World or 1984.
Like them, it has some frighteningly prescient elements.
 
What’s so bad about it? The storyline is a fundamentalist Christian world – kind of like the Amish, but with legal and judicial theocracy. Catholics are outcasts, gays are sentenced to death, etc.
 
SyroMalankara said:
What’s so bad about it? The storyline is a fundamentalist Christian world – kind of like the Amish, but with legal and judicial theocracy. Catholics are outcasts, gays are sentenced to death, etc.
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What strikes me is how unlikely a scenario it seems. There seems far more danger in secular fundamentalists seizing control and creating a dystopia where Christianity is outlawed. 🤷

Also, what seems troubling to me is the possibility that such a work will only further stir up animosity towards Christians in our culture. People may read or watch this and make negative generalizations about all Christians. It reinforces the negative stereotype that Christians are hypocritical, uncaring, and simply want to control everyone else’s behavior. Even though I’m sure a discerning person could view this and make the distinction between fictionalized fundamentalist Christians and the vast majority of actual real-world Christians, I think many people won’t make that distinction.

But I haven’t read the book nor seen the movie. I’ve only heard about the general premise. So I don’t know how much these concerns are warranted. That’s just my best guess from what I’ve heard about the storyline.
 
Joe_5859 said:
What strikes me is how unlikely a scenario it seems. There seems far more danger in secular fundamentalists seizing control and creating a dystopia where Christianity is outlawed. 🤷
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That will never get made into anything because, to most of the MSM and Hollywood, that’s a paradise, not a dystopia.
 
Joe_5859 said:
What strikes me is how unlikely a scenario it seems. There seems far more danger in secular fundamentalists seizing control and creating a dystopia where Christianity is outlawed. 🤷
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The author of the book drew part of her inspiration from what happened to women in Iran after the revolution of the 1970’s.
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Also, what seems troubling to me is the possibility that such a work will only further stir up animosity towards Christians in our culture. People may read or watch this and make negative generalizations about all Christians. It reinforces the negative stereotype that Christians are hypocritical, uncaring, and simply want to control everyone else’s behavior. Even though I’m sure a discerning person could view this and make the distinction between fictionalized fundamentalist Christians and the vast majority of actual real-world Christians, I think many people won’t make that distinction.

But I haven’t read the book nor seen the movie. I’ve only heard about the general premise. So I don’t know how much these concerns are warranted. That’s just my best guess from what I’ve heard about the storyline.
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Prior to criticizing the book, perhaps you should read it. The author does not paint all of Christianity in a negative light–the book mentions Quaker safehouses, Baptist resistance cells in the Appalachians, and some other examples.
 
I didn’t watch the movie but did read the book as a school assignment, along with the Scarlet Letter, though the Scarlet Letter was “historical fiction” not a speculative dystopian work. Still I did see some similarities, down to the revelations that some of the Christian religious leaders are portrayed as hypocrites.

Of course the scenario is far-fetched but I can think of some subcultures that would probably see this kind of society as closer to an utopia than a dystopia, such the FLDS and other extreme offshoots of LDS faith.

Re the Muslim angle; I’ve noticed that whenever extreme Christian fundamentalism is discussed, either the real type or the fictional, there are always people who state “No, the Muslims do this kind of woman-hating stuff, Christians don’t”.

Well, what about poor Anna Duggar and her essentially being stuck for the rest of her life with a cheating, child molesting husband? Now for all I know she has forgiven him but I’ve also heard rumors that she wants to leave. The point is that she is powerless to leave even if she did want to, she was never taught anything that would let her support herself and her parents refuse to take her in. So she essentially has no choice. And many MRA types think women should be totally dependent on men as an ideal.
 
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