I actually have seen women proposing being impregnated with random embryos in order to "save babies" in the extreme Christian Right blogosphere. Gotta one-up each other all the time on being "pro-life" since it's not like they're allowed any other accomplishments.

I thought the RCC's opposition to IVF had to do with the fact that it creates embryos that aren't used? ie. ZOMG KILLING BABIES!!!!

They still make podcasts together though. And though you can never really tell what goes on behind closed doors, they seem to be quite friendly exes…

But it's not about results in the end, or they wouldn't deny the existence of male sterility. As focused as the entire society ostensibly is on propagating itself, ideology ultimately trumps all.

Haha, I enjoy SIL for what it is, though I am also bewildered as to how it was ever considered Oscar-worthy. Even when I was a kid, watching it with my bestie who had a huge Jospeh Fiennes crush, we both knew it was pretty silly. But it is his most famous role and he's a romantic lead. And I definitely think that that…

Yeah, I agree with you on all counts, although she really did not have that much to do in Mad Men and I don't know if anyone could have impressed much with that material. She was godawful in Sisterhood and Tuck, which I was upset about because I like both those books. But I really think she was also just rehashing…

Pity yes, but also contempt. These women were the conservative culture warriors of pre-Gilead times, out there making careers for themselves being shills for patriarchal rule, deriving power from preaching powerlessness for all other women. They got what they were fighting for—a world in which women have no power. But…

Yes. It meant that you could never be sent to the colonies. I don't remember there being more detail beyond that.

Yeah, I feel like it's not an accident that they cast Joseph Fiennes, who will be remembered by much of the target audience of this show as Sexy Shakespeare of "Shakespeare in Love" when we were kids and teenagers. He's supposed to be charming. It's supposed to be a little hard to remember how deeply sinister he…

Maybe the key is letting her act non-verbally instead of stuffing truck loads of twee dialogue into her mouth. I mean, really, this role couldn't be more opposite of her other most famous role and maybe this is what she was meant to do the whole time. I've always thought she was terrible, but I'm re-thinking that now.

It's certainly gotten her more respect from me! I really had no idea she had any acting ability at all. When I saw her, I initially groaned, as she's stunk up some adaptations of other books that I care about (albeit less heavy ones than The Handmaid's Tale). But she's so good she's practically unrecognizable to me…