It sounds like you’re speaking of Sharia law, which is not our policy. At all. You want to talk about the inequities of the world outside of our borders, that’s fine. To say that this is happening, or could happen here ... is ludicrous. That’s why there’s so much debate and argument revolving around the book and the…

Criticism is not hatred, nor is it hatred of a gender. Whattsamatterwichu?

Please Bob, tell me where this is happening in our country.

The show is a form of pornography. Rather than reconciling or understanding the best, most effective ways of storytelling, it effectively shows all it’s cards: rape and torture. So we’ve spent 20 episodes watching atrocity after atrocity committed with nary a voice of rebellion, resistance. My favorite episode has a…

I think the point of the book was to hold women accountable for their complicity in determining individual reproductive rights (pro-life vs. pro-choice), regardless of a totalitarian “patriarchy.” Men are characterized simply as the devices that women use in their own torture. The book was a response to the rise of…

This doesn’t adhere to any Bible I’ve ever read. Ever look at your Song of Solomon? Sex is equal parts lust and love, fellowship between partners; the celebration and worship of the female form:

They’re pretty much, at gun-point, forcing Nick to nail this underage chick. It’s wrong on a hundred levels, but he can’t bitch about it, and she’s a Gilead-groupie. Nick, like Janine, is dead meat on a hook if he doesn’t pack it in, grab some knives and guns and make a break for the night. Unfortunately, every…

So, really it’s only your limited judgment that it’s rape when you disapprove of the society in question? If that were the case, you would be required to reject every culture and every society that goes against the grain of your own culture and society. People have been accused of xenophobia for less. You, and many…

By definition, these are choices. A choice springs from having more than one option. These are shitty choices, but they are choices. They’re not exactly Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc, but they are choices.

I would assume it works for them because they have no use for homosexuals in their “progressive” new society; they blame women for the low birth rate. Gilead kills everything they disagree with, so do the math.

She is absolutely the dumbest handmaid (screw that, the dumbest character) in the entire Gileadean universe, the story, the television show. She mouthed off to Lydia and got her eye plucked out. Later she tells a guy with a machine gun to “suck her dick.” She’s a grade-A, certified, money-back-guaranteed MORON, for…

What they should have celebrated (instead of the plane leaving Canadian space) was that the bomb inside the plane successfully detonated. Gilead is an infection inside America that needs to be eradicated. We don’t want to send these people safely on their way back to their homes where they can continue to commit…

There are no heroes in the world these people create. I mean, seriously, nobody does anything heroic, at all.

Dolts notwithstanding, the television series has to be about rape, because it hits where you live; it gives you a reason to hate. It doesn’t make you question the machinations of the writers. It makes you hate either the “man model,” or the female perspective’s personal suspicion of men. The writers evidently want you…

It’s a conceit of the (Canadian-born) Atwood that she thinks our Government can be overthrown. Perhaps her government can be overthrown. The writer is not perfect. He or she may be the “false god” of the worlds they create, but by their flawed nature, the story will not strictly adhere to logic and reality. This is a…

It’s as simple as you get a group of your friends together to murder homosexuals. There is no government strong-arm initiative or referendum to murder homosexuals when a group of homophobes can get together and do it for free.

As The Republic Turns...

Atwood didn’t “plot” anything.” She just laid out a set of circumstances and created characters to push around. That’s not storytelling, it’s just exhibition and exposition.

Contrivance, conceit, logical gap, or plot-hole? 

I don’t buy that the U.S. Military is, in any way, allied with Gilead. Have you seen any “military” presence beyond guys on street corners with machine guns? Members of the Military are required to, “... support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will…