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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] if you think this show rings eerily true[/quote].[b]..then you are an alarmist, similar to a doomsday [b]prepper.  [/b]

There are good people on both sides of the two major parties. This book/show is so FAR from today's reality.  I'm not complicit, nor a MAGA supporter, but I do know that this would not happen [i]today[/i].   I will be highly irritated if the producers try to draw a straight line from MAGA to Gilead.   [/quote]

+1.  Please provide evidence of something concrete that has Happened that’s similar to the show.  [/quote]

I mean I’m not getting carried away but it’s undeniable that the blend of Christian extremism and misogyny from the show is ascendant in America. To pull a few episodes that would be right at home in a Handmaid’s Tale flashback, [b]NC Bathroom Laws, [/b]Fox News, “incel” murderers, Liberty U, Melania, that “religious freedom” EO draft that circulated, etc etc[/quote]

Not allowing men to use women’s restrooms and vice versa is akin to the handmaidens take?!

I hate Fox News but don’t know what comparison you’re drawing there either.

Melania?!?   What does she have to do with this??

You’re an extremist.  [/quote]

Totally! The flashbacks in HT are all about creeping social and governmental [b]restriction of gender roles. [/b]The bathroom bill is a solid example. The right wing pearl clutching about the boy scouts is another. Transgender military ban, etc.

Melania is totally relevant. She represents both surface reverance for a regressive gender-specific ideal (she shows up, she is beautiful and deferential, and [b]she rarely speaks) [/b]and the obvious breakdown of the theoretically underpinning morality. She’s his third wife and his constant philandering and related shenanigans renders her carefully crafted image ridiculous or at least a little sad as long as she publicly ignores it. Melania is very blue lady.

To be clear, I don’t care what arrangement Melania has with her husband and she’s under no obligation to discuss it. I think a big part of the problem is the role of First Lady and I would love to see it go away or be blown up by Melania or someone else. I hate to be even a little critical of Michelle O, but she very deliberately (with good cause, I know!) left that on the table.But there’s no question that Melania is relevant to the GOP, [b]particularly the men in power, claiming the mantle of Christianity or a family-centered morality while very consistently and obviously living otherwise themselves. Which is extremely related to Gilead. [/b]

Again, not saying we’re on a path to Gilead or anything but to deny the obvious connections is to be deliberately obtuse. [/quote]

You know Melaniia rarely speaks and how? Maybe instead of being deferential she just doesn’t give a sh$t?

In terms of the men in power - this has been going on since the beginning of time.  It certainly didn’t start with the GOP.

Regarding the bathroom bill, I see it as the exact opposite.  That we have come so far in breaking down gender roles that legislation is required to keep men out of the ladies room.  
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