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RE: The Handmaid's Tale of Propaganda
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Hmm, to me, there were some good parts, but too few to make up for the bad ones, but that's just me. It does reflect oppressed women, I know and I agree, that was the purpose of the book, back when it was written, but it's still playing to an agenda. If you look at most of the feminist movement today, it's long ceased being about women's rights, it's about the annihilation of men. You have women criticizing fathers, downplaying their role in society. It's funny how people seem to think that they can only gain their freedom by oppressing their former oppressors. Really makes one wonder if we've learned anything in our time here.
I think thats also dangerous talk, with all due respect, and a sweeping generalisation. Its just as important to fight for womens rights as ever - consider the breastfeeding debacle in America, for example. There is no way that equality has been achieved between the sexes and woman are STILL paid less than men and suffer from domestic violence and rape just as they ever have. Undermining this with a sweeping comment that 'some' feminists seek to remove the place of men in the home is just looking at one small part of a big and ongoing fight for womans rights. Stories such as this make people uncomfortable because its not so far from the truth. Thats what dystopuan fiction does.. takes the flaws in our worlds and magnifies them. In that way, of course it has an agenda - and why shouldnt it? Just as Sense8 had an agenda.