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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The infertile of the new ruling class was spared. Regular infertile women were sent to work camps to clean toxic waste. [/quote]
Yeah that should have been updated bc it makes no sense. What does that even me "clean up toxic waste"
Since they talk about websites and people have cell phones it's clear the time frame they are using is right now or in the future. Right now we don't need people to clean up toxic waste bc it's mechanized. It wouldn't make sense to undue that and would cause more harm to everyone.

What would be great is if they reveal that the camps are just basically boring type suburbs but the use the whole threat of toxic waste to keep the handmaids in line and too scared to escape.
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The book was written in 1984, so no cell phones then. It's just now being updated so everything might not fit perfectly 30 years later. I'm sure there will be a storyline that shows the other, older women, including Offred's mom.[/quote]

I am aware of that and read the book back back then.  My point is they are using as reference for timeframe either present day or future so it doesn't make sense to include the toxic waste scenario. They should have updated that too.

And also, the whole idea of the Handmaid and how that worked should have been updated since IVF treatments between the early 80's and today have significantly changed. [b]It would make more sense if "The ceremony" actually involved some at home insemination process[/b] since again this would be a well known thing at this point as opposed to when the author wrote the book.

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The first IVF baby was born in 1978, so there was IVF when the book was written. The Ceremony is ritualized rape so while an artificial insemination is an invasive violation, it does not terrorize and subjugate women in the same was as the Ceremony does. The Ceremony is about control and violence to women as much as it is about reproduction of babies. [/quote]

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