Could "The Handmaid's Tale" become reality?

[MariaCSR]

I just watched three episodes of it on Hulu last night and had to stop because frankly it creeped me out.

[bearsfootball516]

1. I wouldn't worry about that.

[MariaCSR]

2. Why?

[smirkymonkey]

5. Really? Are you a woman?

You have no idea how close we are coming to this as a reality.

[liberalhistorian]

14. As a woman, I keep trying to tell this to a lot

of men and, unfortunately, clueless women (often, but not always, republicans) and women who say they "hate feminism" but enjoy all the benefits that those awful feminists fought so hard to give them.

The men who don't get it remind me of my fellow whites who just don't get that racism is still very much alive because THEY aren't the ones who have to deal with it.

It's truly terrifying how much closer we are to the reality of Handmaid's Tale. My late-seventies mother is really terrified, and that is really scary to me given what she's lived through.

[SweetieD]

3. I think it could be. Maybe not in our lifetimes. But imagine a hundred years from now if everyone in

Congress was to the right of Roy Moore.

[enough]

4. It's happening right now in the immigration/incarceration system under Trump.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-abortion-court/u-s-court-blocks-immigrant-teens-bid-to-obtain-abortion-idUSKBN1CP2L1

[MariaCSR]

6. I saw that. That's exactly why I asked this.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. If we let it come to be . . . .

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. There have been real versions of that plot, in various ways.

I am thinking of how men and male doctors controlled birth control, controlled education, money, etc. thru the ages, and always used the Church..or was it vice-versa? as an excuse.

I have not seen such deliberate attacks on the gains of women over the last 50 years. It is rather breath taking and there is no limit where it could go, theoretically.
actually, the same thing for civil rights, These guys want white male domination over everything, and Pence's religion agrees with that.

[Takket]

9. i don't watch that show. could you give me the 50 cent summary?

[LeftInTX]

12. Here's a synopsis:

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/05/02/whats-not-said-handmaids-tale/

I makes me think of Warren Jeffs and his polygamous sect....

[Kaleva]

10. And it was a white woman who helped create that world

"Serena Joy Waterford, Fred's wife and a former conservative cultural activist who appears to have accepted her new limited role in a society she helped create. She is poised and deeply religious, but capable of great cruelty and is often callous in her treatment of June."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(TV_series)#Main

[KentuckyWoman]

11. I don't think so...... however

this is a good time to re-introduce this cautious tale of what could be if we are stupid enough to give up even one sixteenth of an inch.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

13. It already exists

It’s a place called Saudi Arabia.