Econowives are allowed to breed

The book is set at the beginning of Gilead. The epilogue is set +/- 200 years after the events of the book.

Reading the book, I interpreted Offred’s definition of rape (and not-rape) more as a reflection of the culture she’s living in. Like... she doesn’t get to call what happens to her rape because it’s state-sponsored. It’s like her saying she used to have another name, but not telling the reader what it is (major…

I’m confused by that tweet.

Seriously. Like...did you actually read the book?

Yeah, that sounds weirdly made-up to me.

“It’s a rape fantasy”? God knows sexualizing rape is a depressingly common trope, but I’m having troubling imagining how anyone could confuse the cold, clinical rapes in The Handmaid’s Tale with erotica.

I watched with my husband, and at the end, I asked him what he thought and it did not go well. I can’t remember the exact words—all I remember is static?—but at one point he accused me of trying to “educate him” and said it felt “unrealistic.”

I was legitimately worried that this was going to be another OITNB thing where men complained about the lack of focus on men in a story by women about women in a women’s prison.

Doesn’t matter that they might “have no idea”, it’s fucking PRIVATE PROPERTY!!! Stay the fuck off of private property! Fuck those inbred redneck (sorry for the redundancy) punks.

Who else goes mudding in rural areas, the Queen of England?

This is not at all funny. Fuckin’ bumpkins. Imagine just losing out on 25 grand? One night. Poof. Gone.

From rural Texas, have 4wd, can confirm assertion.

As a farm kid, with a pickup, with BF Goodrich KO2s, nothing pisses me off more than rednecks and people who go “mudding” for fun. They do it in someone’s field, and they mess up the compaction of the ground, which hurts the crop’s final production at the end of the year. Or they go on someone’s back dirt road when…

Do you think it’s possible that one day, SVU will make episodes about crimes before they happen, a la Minority Report?

he’s in grad school and getting married this summer, I think he’s past the “bro take me to the beer store” phase

I think it has less to do with what is missing and more to do with what could be missing; in this case, cash income from red light fines.

So saying “I’m an engineer” requires you to have a license in Oregon? I’m confused as to how the board’s position makes any sense. There must be something missing here.

“You have a Stupid airline SLUT!!!!appearance.”

I have passionate feelings about the Tracer. I despise it. It is my most hated car.

My first car was a mercury tracer trio. Exactly like this one. I came home from school about a week before my 17th birthday and it was sitting in the driveway and Dad was like “Hey, I bought you a car! It’s got a spoiler! Isn’t it…