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liberalhistorian

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

Sun Oct 22, 2017, 11:53 PM

Oct 2017

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.

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Could "The Handmaid's Tale" become reality? [View all] MariaCSR Oct 2017 OP

I wouldn't worry about that. bearsfootball516 Oct 2017 #1

Why? MariaCSR Oct 2017 #2

Really? Are you a woman? smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #5

As a woman, I keep trying to tell this to a lot liberalhistorian Oct 2017 #14

I think it could be. Maybe not in our lifetimes. But imagine a hundred years from now if everyone in SweetieD Oct 2017 #3

It's happening right now in the immigration/incarceration system under Trump. enough Oct 2017 #4

I saw that. That's exactly why I asked this. MariaCSR Oct 2017 #6

If we let it come to be . . . . no_hypocrisy Oct 2017 #7

There have been real versions of that plot, in various ways. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2017 #8

i don't watch that show. could you give me the 50 cent summary? Takket Oct 2017 #9

Here's a synopsis: LeftInTX Oct 2017 #12

And it was a white woman who helped create that world Kaleva Oct 2017 #10

I don't think so...... however KentuckyWoman Oct 2017 #11

It already exists cagefreesoylentgreen Oct 2017 #13