I don’t think it’s weird. Offred isn’t meant to be an author avatar. She’s not there to explain Margaret Atwood’s views. She’s written to be the most realistic version of a woman in her situation. Many women in that environment would shoulder some personal responsibility for the shit they go through. Maybe it’s…

Their religious bullshit prevents them from admitting men could be infertile, and it’s implied many of them are, so it’s all pinned on the women. 

It is certainly kind of powerful that the reader reaches that conclusion and she doesn’t. Shows the disconnect between our world and theirs.

I don’t remember it as even remotely titillating. Just so creepy and perfunctory.

That’s how I interpreted it—Offred was definitely not an academic feminist and criticized some aspects of the feminism of her mother’s generation.

I have no problem admitting that the book is flawed, but I didn’t find any part of it titillating, and I’m a little disturbed to learn that there are people who do.

Hippo video binge? I bet YouTube is full of distracting hippos with the potential to spin out into other cute animals.

The only film I can think of that hasn’t generated any kind of “following” was Requiem for a Dream—a movie so grim you want to shower during the opening credits. But just about every other film focusing on drug use seems to inadvertently inspire some ridiculous worship or rebellion.

This is my big dork. He just had an emergency sleenectomy and was near dead and the emergency vets wanted to put him to sleep, but I knew he had some fight left in him. I drug all almost 200 pounds of his nonrponsive self all the way across my house (I couldn’t get in touch with ANYONE- including pet taxis or…

D’awwwww! Here’s Joss, begging to get up on the chaise while I try to make it up with blankets (doing a test run tomorrow for what it will be like after my operation). He had a big day today - first he got taken to class where he acted like a wild thing and barkbarkbarked, and then he went off to get a bath at our…

I have a bug with a tongue out too!

I gave birth last Saturday, when I was only 25 weeks along, because my high blood pressure turned into preeclampsia and then HELLP syndrome in a matter of days. Original plan was to keep me at the hospital for as many weeks as possible before delivery, but my labs turned bad and then worse and doctors think I would…

People whine when nobody stands up against bullshit and people whine when someone does. I guess the common factor is that people whine all the time.

Sometimes people fail. And hopefully they learn from their moments of outwardly seeming weakness.

Eh, that’s obviously him preparing to rape her, and going about it in a disturbingly methodical way. Perhaps the previous commenter has been raped herself, that could trigger a panic attack.

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Each tape is is centered on someone who let her down. I don’t doubt this series will be shown in schools. It’s thought provoking.

Bullying does not cause suicide, depression does. Bullying may factor into it, but suicide and suicide ideation are far more complex then “people fucked me over so I’m going to take my life”

Fuck you guys. One of my cats was vomiting this week. Like bile and stuff. It took me a couple days to figure out which one because they were all acting normally. I finally figured out it was my Tiny Wots, so I took her straight to the vet. She was refusing food and water. Doctor felt a mass in her abdomen. They took…

Mine does the exact same thing. With the ‘forgotten’ object tucked into the back waistband of his pants, so he can hold both hands up for authenticity. I am actually surprised at what he has been able to hold in there, including a full glass of water.