The rule doesn’t make sense, not this convenient exception.
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Sing with with me ... that’s ... why ... none ... of this ... makes ... sense. That ... is why ... the show ... is ... badly ... written. Understand?
Sorry, but Atwood didn’t (and still doesn’t) know a damned thing about religion, politics, socialism, or conservatism. She wrote a false memoir. It was speculation and nothing more.
Yes, thank I’ve been watching the show since it first started, read the book when it was first published IN FREAKING 1985 as well as a few other books by Atwood, re-read the book several times, saw the MOVIE several times. Thanks, though. I don’t care about the source. IT STILL DOESN’T MAKE SENSE.
Again it makes no sense given what we know of how all women are treated in Gilead.
That’s called lumping; the broad assumption that just because someone is one thing it must logically mean they are another thing. A sexist society would not necessarily be a racist society, and vice versa. Kind of how like people idiotically assume that all Trump supporters are racist, sexist, homophobic, white,…
I saw no indication of Gilead in those scenes. They were asking about church because that’s what they do. It isn’t either legal or binding, just a meter for detecting how much participation families have in religious activities. They did that where we used to live. They’d even openly discuss God and Jesus in public…
Ugh, terrible, just lazy writing that can’t stick to the logic. I can’t explain the tango, but Lydia’s story was before the Gilead problem. Oh yeah, she her “Islands in the Stream” thing, but that was the before time, the long-long ago.
But ... women ... dirt, no read, you no read, bad, bad ... you lose finger ... makes no sense.
That’s the practical reason definitely for giving us the equal opportunity fascism of Gilead. It is pandering, obviously. They had an opportunity to make Gilead even more evil and horrible by playing Atwood’s racism/extermination card. I wonder why they didn’t do it.
“Pre-eminent bastion?” Politicians, celebrities, political campaign donors, the Entertainment Industry as a whole, Academia as a whole ... the Catholic Church would have to bow to each of these groups.
Add to this, a child could only be forcefully removed from a house if there are signs of abuse and/or neglect. The State doesn’t just take children away because one person said so. They collect statements from all parties before making a determination. The child was happy, showed no outward signs of abuse and (I’m…
“Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man,” 1996, The X-Files
How are the Aunts permitted to read? Am I to understand the Aunts have more power than Commanders’ wives? It’s been established that women are not only forbidden from reading, they also have to pretend to be illiterate for the benefit of everyone else. Nothing about this world makes sense.
I actually did go to Catholic school. One of my nuns taught me to play piano, and she was my sitter when my Mother worked late, and she was one of the kindest, warmest people I’ve ever known.
Those who were identified as the Children of Ham were seen as “African American,” but as we know they make up but a fraction of dark-skinned people.
Marthas are not usually black - where did you get that idea? Marthas are usually older women. They tend to come from different backgrounds and ethnicity. In the book, they’re black, but here? No.
I did like that Ofmatthew was so confused when she was holding the gun that she didn’t know who to shoot. That was a nice detail.
They ruined Aunt Lydia’s back-story by making her a teacher which, even with the progression of the Gilead narrative, makes very little sense in the context of her being this monster that she eventually becomes. And, no, being a “conservative” or “religious” does not make people monsters, and does not cater to…