A handmaid's tale

Which do you choose?

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  • Martha

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You suddenly find yourself in the dystopic regime of Gilead. You are one of the lucky ones. You get to choose your position in life.
 

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A politico-pyro that burns the whole fucking system to the fucking ground.

You do realize with the appointment of Kavanaugh to the bench all references to The Handmaid's Tale are tone-deaf?

P.S. The President is a game show host. Most citizens are poor or are up to their nipples in debt pretending not to be poor. Healthcare is crowd-sourced and the environment is stage four.

We are living in the dystopian future.
 
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Am I the only one who has never heard of a handmaid's tale
 

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Am I the only one who has never heard of a handmaid's tale


It's a great book by Margaret Atwwod about a dystopian patriarchal society where women have no autonomy whatsoever....chilling, considering the current political clime. I highly recommend! I would also have a beachy book at the ready for next in line to read, because it's very heavy and depressing

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Is also a show but ive never seen it so I can't speak to that.


And I refuse to answer the poll.
 

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As a Canadian, I get to live free and harbour the runaways. :grinning:

I’ve always loved that book, and the show is great, but it’s scarier than ever with things south of our border. Even in Canada we are seeing some hardline right wingers that scare the bejeebers out of me.

Just goes to show, we all have to vote and stay vigilant. I’m hopeful for your midterms, but nervous about our own next provincial election. Really nervous.
 
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It's a great book by Margaret Atwwod about a dystopian patriarchal society where women have no autonomy whatsoever....chilling, considering the current political clime. I highly recommend! I would also have a beachy book at the ready for next in line to read, because it's very heavy and depressing

Ny times review

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Is also a show but ive never seen it so I can't speak to that.


And I refuse to answer the poll.
I might try and get a copy thou may take me weeks to read it
 
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You suddenly find yourself in the dystopic regime of Gilead. You are one of the lucky ones. You get to choose your position in life.
My great-great grandmother and her sister were owned by their father, the man who raped their mother before he sold her away from them. My family didn't scratch and claw its way from slavery to middle class so I could live like that. I leave, like my great-great-grandmother and her sister, or die trying. Liberty, or death. What the fuck kind of question is this? Are you whole?
 

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I'd skullfuk my owners with my micro clit. Then I watch them try to knock me up even though I'm sterile and laugh at them for failing so they feel like failures and then they toss me to the side and I wouldn't have to worry about their asses anymore. I'm of no good I can not bring babies into this world.
 

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I asked this same question to several young (late 20s to early 30s) female physicians including my 31 year old physician daughter. All chose Martha. None got angry. All had either read the book, saw the old movie, or are watching the new series.

My conclusions. Asking this question in person to people I know is vastly different from asking it online as a stranger to strangers. AND OR highly educated and highly compensated YOUNG women are far more confident of the future vs older women who do not have the same education or compensation.
 
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You have no idea of my age, my education level, or income. I've read the book twice. I watched much of the first season of the show. I am not and was not angry at any point in this thread. I just would refuse to stay in that kind of environment.

Asking women this question when they have an idea of how poorly you seem to think of women versus asking women this question when they don't know will result in rather different answers.
 
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I asked this same question to several young (late 20s to early 30s) female physicians including my 31 year old physician daughter. All chose Martha. None got angry. All had either read the book, saw the old movie, or are watching the new series.

My conclusions. Asking this question in person to people I know is vastly different from asking it online as a stranger to strangers. AND OR highly educated and highly compensated YOUNG women are far more confident of the future vs older women who do not have the same education or compensation.

I'm sorry troll I'm just too old and stupid to understand what you're trying to say
 

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I highly doubt the OP knows several women in real life. He may come in contact with several women throughout his day. He may know a few of them on a first name basis. There is no chance in hell that any of them count him among their friends.

If they call him a friend I call in doubt their description as educated women.
 

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I asked this same question to several young (late 20s to early 30s) female physicians including my 31 year old physician daughter. All chose Martha. None got angry. All had either read the book, saw the old movie, or are watching the new series.

My conclusions. Asking this question in person to people I know is vastly different from asking it online as a stranger to strangers. AND OR highly educated and highly compensated YOUNG women are far more confident of the future vs older women who do not have the same education or compensation.

Trust me.

I'd tell you to your face with no hesitation that my choice would be to fight to the death.

If I am willing to say it online I'm willing to say it to a stranger's face.
 

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I asked this same question to several young (late 20s to early 30s) female physicians including my 31 year old physician daughter. All chose Martha. None got angry. All had either read the book, saw the old movie, or are watching the new series.

My conclusions. Asking this question in person to people I know is vastly different from asking it online as a stranger to strangers. AND OR highly educated and highly compensated YOUNG women are far more confident of the future vs older women who do not have the same education or compensation.
I don’t get it. Who’s angry? The book, the movie, and the series all offer fighting the Gilead system as an option. Absolutely, death is the result of that choice in most cases. Some make it to Canada and freedom. If most of the women here choose death over enslavement, is that such a difficult choice to understand? In the real world, where such choices actually exists, there are women who choose escape and the likelihood of death over forced marriage or slavery.

Perhaps the women you consulted, despite their youth and education, were conservative types. Perhaps they didn’t even consider options other than the ones you offered to them. Maybe they were in a hurry when they answered, or remembered that on the show a Martha was a doctor so that was cool - who knows. They certainly have a right to their answers.

I do know that the women here are not conservative, are likely to colour outside the lines, and some of us are a bit feral in nature. I wouldn’t make any assumptions about education or income about any of us - I know a lot about the women here, there is a wide cross section here. What we do have in common is a tendency towards badassery. It has nothing to do with education or income.
 

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I asked this same question to several young (late 20s to early 30s) female physicians including my 31 year old physician daughter. All chose Martha. None got angry. All had either read the book, saw the old movie, or are watching the new series.

My conclusions. Asking this question in person to people I know is vastly different from asking it online as a stranger to strangers. AND OR highly educated and highly compensated YOUNG women are far more confident of the future vs older women who do not have the same education or compensation.
How old am I? What is my household income? What percentage of that is my compensation? What education do I have? Did I read the book? Watch the series? Catch the old movie?

You're ugly where it counts. The women you know lack pride and thoughtfulness. A Martha? I would never be an uncompensated domestic servant, especially one who is sent to die past a certain age. My family is done with that kind of contribution to any society. I would never be content participating in a system that so blatantly abused anyone, let alone millions of people who ultimately aren't very different from me. Any woman who is happy to contemplate her role in a society wherein all women are enslaved, is faulty. Such women are part of the reason it is even possible in this time period to watch the erosion of women's rights.

Broken man raises ridiculous women. Shocking story at 11. : unamused: