"The Handmaid's Tale". I just dusted off my copy.

[Cleita]

I think it's time to shove copies of it up certain conservative men's asses. I'll start with Darryl Issa. For those of you who haven't read the book, it's about what happens when religious nuts gain control and women are relegated to being breeders if they don't play nice with the big righteous, religious men. This whole war on women reeks of it.

[valerief]

1. I think we can gleefully fit a couple dozen copies up his ass. nt

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. I have been thinking a lot about that book lately

also It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. Seem like life is in danger of imitating fiction. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.

[PufPuf23]

9. Atwood's Handmaiden's Trail is the theological edition of 1984 or Brave New World.

I am perplexed about the World.

[Zookeeper]

12. It Can't Happen Here is a must-read.

Every time I hear about border security, I think about how it doesn't just "keep the bad guys out," but could keep us in.

[Justice wanted]

3. Issa probably has his copy up his ass as a way of hiding it! It some sort of sick Porno wet dream

for him

[Remember Me]

4. Dear Goddess, don't do that. They'll take it as

a blueprint for what else to do to us.

[Tsiyu]

5. I know

The image of all those men sitting in that hearing....made me think Handmaid's Tale right off the bat.

Then I said Oh HELL no!

Now I'm beginning to think Republicans don't want to be in politics any more, because they have lost the moderates BIG time.

[niyad]

6. that book has not been out of my mind since raygun took office. I used to say we were one vote

away from it, now it seems like we are about 1 minute away.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Pretty sooon Santorum will start slipping up and calling the U.S. "Gilead"

[Starry Messenger]

8. Is *that* how they read them?

No wonder they always have such funny postures.

One of my favorite books, not-so-fiction fiction.

[Zalatix]

10. I couldn't tell who had it worse in that story

the women, blacks and Jews, or the environment.

To be honest the whole problem in the nation of Gilead was only PARTIALLY started by a "terrorist" (read: false flag) attack. The other issue was the ongoing ruining of the environment with pollution - that's what led to the mass infertility problem, and it was a huge motivator for Gilead's policy toward women. I'm sure that in Gilead they would have treated women as walking wombs anyway, but the mass infertility problem made it a certainty. If this epidemic was worldwide then I could see other nations going the same way. Or worse, something only slightly better than "Children of Men". Basically mother nature took a severe beating in this reality and struck back the hardest.

Lots of Jewish people were dumped overboard on their way to exile to Israel.

Blacks... well, supposedly they were sent off to do farm labor. In reality they were probably stuck doing deadly work like cleaning up chemical and radioactive waste, along with infertile women. How bad was it for blacks? They were ALL sent off to these horrible hellish places.

African Americans were probably extinct by the time the "revolution" happened.

[hfojvt]

11. I was gonna offer my copy

but I cannot seem to find it. Perhaps I no longer own one. I may have given it away when I moved.

[Zookeeper]

13. I'm happy to say that my son just read that...

as a high school assignment. Granted, it's an advanced class, but maybe not all is lost if teachers are requiring students to read it.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

14. Love Margeret Attwood!(sp?)

Definitely check ou Oryx an Crake if you haven't yet

[TexasProgresive]

15. The Handmaid's Tale rose up in my mind this morning

And now here's a Handmaid thread. WOW..

[hobbit709]

16. Every time I see some religious nut, I think Nehemia Scudder.

[Staph]

18. I had forgotten about Nehemiah Scudder.

For those unfamiliar, in Robert Heinlein's first novel If This Goes On--, Nehemiah Scudder is the first of a series of Prophets who have turned the United States into a theocracy. As Wikipedia states, "The novel shows what might happen to Christianity in the United States given mass communications, applied psychology, and a hysterical populace."

The eerie thing -- Nehemiah Scudder is elected President in 2012.

[malaise]

17. I'm in complete shock

We'd never know that this is 2012

[lunatica]

19. I bet that book has been on lots of minds lately

I've been thinking a lot about it. And the movie too.