This week I’ve been listening to an audiobook of The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.
I still prefer The Handmaid’s Tale, but I love seeing Gilead from other perspectives in the sequel.
Here’s hoping the TV series based on it will be good.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #MargaretAtwood #Television #TheTestaments #TheHandmaidsTale
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Drops Heartstopping Season 6 Trailer Declaring “The Revolution Is Here” & Serena As A Bride—Update
#News #Trailers #Hulu #TheHandmaidsTale
https://deadline.com/2025/03/the-handmaids-tale-season-six-premiere-date-teaser-1236286905/
Habe gerade gelernt. dass die US Administration - neben ganz vielen anderen Wörtern und Bezeichnungen auch das Wort "woman" bzw. "women" in wissenschaftlichen Studien verboten haben soll 
The State of Gilead is here.
#WahlLiebe #5vor12 #Stuttgart #TheHandmaidsTale
Weil nach einem Link gefragt worden ist.
@aral
Margaret Attwood is a living prophet. No wonder the powers that be banned her book.
#TheHandmaidsTale
June: You don't understand. I lied to you. This is a...brutal place.
Castillo: Ms. Offred?
June: They kill us if we try to run away. They beat us, maim us...cut off a finger if you get caught reading. Second offense, just the whole hand. They rape me. Each month when I might be fertile.
Castillo: I'm sorry.
June: We didnt choose this. We're prisoners. I was caught trying to escape. They took my daughter.
Castillo: I'm...sorry.
June: You don't have to be sorry. Please don't be sorry. You need to do something.
Castillo: I...can't help you.
June: What are you going to trade us for? Fucking CHOCOLATE?! We're human beings!
Castillo: I am from Xipica, Ms Offred. It is nice city, about the size of Boston. We haven't had a baby born alive in six years. My country is dying.
June: My country's already dead.
--The Handmaid's Tale, 1x06
“Women should get their voice from their fathers, husbands, brothers or uncles.”
This sounds exactly like what would be seen in a episode of #TheHandmaidsTale It is the same extreme Christian Nationalism that is depicted in the book and in the series.
It is a plague upon humanity.
Christianity has caused mayhem and destruction wherever it sticks its fangs and should be pulled from the root out of public life.
h/t to @ZhiZhu
#USpol #Legal #LawFedi #SCOTUS
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...5th Circuit decisions, from a ruling hamstringing the SEC and similar agencies to one legalizing bump stocks—the device that enabled a lone shooter in Las Vegas to kill 60 people and injure more than 500 in just 10 minutes—are now the law of the land..."
I'd say, #TheHandmaidsTale's #RepublicOfGilead appears to me less fictional by the day.
Read on:
My wife and I have been marathoning The Handmaid’s Tale most nights lately. It has sparked lots of interesting and very deep conversations between the both of us and for me I’ve been finding it a very life changing.
I want to say, particularly to heterosexual married males who live in the United States, if you have not sat down and watched this series with your wife then you absolutely should. Even if you think “I am not one of those husbands” you might still identify problematic behavior that you can absolutely fix. You also see parallels to the world around you that you will find infuriatingly scary. And be prepared for both of you to pause it a lot and have discussions.
Chris Meloni’s wife in Handmaid’s Tale is named Olivia. Irony on top of irony. 
"Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we didn't wake up then either. They said it would be temporary. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."
- The Handmaid's Tale, S1E2
pro-natalists: people need to have children, this fertility crisis is already---
THERE ARE 8 BILLION PARASITES INFESTING THIS PLANET AND Y'ALL AIN'T DOING ANYTHING TO CURB CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH IS THE CAUSE OF THE FERTILITY PROBLEMS IN THE FIRST PLACE, WHICH IS YOUR OWN FUCKING FAULT.
WE ARE NOT YOUR BABY FACTORIES TO PUMP OUT MORE PEOPLE TO EXPLOIT.
QUIT TRYING TO MAKE THE HANDMAIDS TALE REALITY AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Just finished #TheHandmaidsTale - magnificent #book! Very important warning!
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![Imagine mansplaining "The Handmaid's Tale" to its own author
[Margaret E Atwood sharing Mike Luckovich cartoon showing red robed "handmaids" as depicted in "The Handmaid's Tale" going into a voting booth and shedding their robes and exiting as "regularly dressed women".]
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@FacesOutOfCTX
The author of that book uses Islam, not Christianity, an a model for her imaginary world. This is obviously true, as it resembles Islamic culture and law, and not Christian](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/417/423/429/402/011/original/3eaa87bbeb18ac88.png "Imagine mansplaining \"The Handmaid's Tale\" to its own author
[Margaret E Atwood sharing Mike Luckovich cartoon showing red robed \"handmaids\" as depicted in \"The Handmaid's Tale\" going into a voting booth and shedding their robes and exiting as \"regularly dressed women\".]
FacesOutOfContext
@FacesOutOfCTX
The author of that book uses Islam, not Christianity, an a model for her imaginary world. This is obviously true, as it resembles Islamic culture and law, and not Christian")
