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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
The amazing thing with the site is how obsessed they've got with A Handmaid's Tale. I swear, they almost have one article a week or every other week on it.
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It's the new Harry Potter/Twilight/Steven Universe, but with the added twist of being about a woman living in a dsytopian hyper-religious police state. This enables them to draw parallels with their own times, condemn Trump, blast Trump's administration, and most importantly, show off that they're resisting Trump, because he wants to rollback women's/gay/minority rights to the "Good Old Days"

Never mind the fact that they may be blowing things out of proportion.
 
SoberBlitz said:
It's the new Harry Potter/Twilight/Steven Universe, but with the added twist of being about a woman living in a dsytopian hyper-religious police state. This enables them to draw parallels with their own times, condemn Trump, blast Trump's administration, and most importantly, show off that they're resisting Trump, because he wants to rollback women's/gay/minority rights to the "Good Old Days"

Never mind the fact that they may be blowing things out of proportion.
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Make America Rape Again. :trump:
 
SoberBlitz said:
It's the new Harry Potter/Twilight/Steven Universe, but with the added twist of being about a woman living in a dsytopian hyper-religious police state. This enables them to draw parallels with their own times, condemn Trump, blast Trump's administration, and most importantly, show off that they're resisting Trump, because he wants to rollback women's/gay/minority rights to the "Good Old Days"

Never mind the fact that they may be blowing things out of proportion.
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What's funny is the state we see in the book exists in multiple places right now, but is conveniently pretty far removed from anything someone who lives in America has ever had to deal with.
 
SoberBlitz said:
It's the new Harry Potter/Twilight/Steven Universe, but with the added twist of being about a woman living in a dsytopian hyper-religious police state. This enables them to draw parallels with their own times, condemn Trump, blast Trump's administration, and most importantly, show off that they're resisting Trump, because he wants to rollback women's/gay/minority rights to the "Good Old Days"

Never mind the fact that they may be blowing things out of proportion.
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Never mind, also, that the book was written back in the 80s, when things were much different and conservatism in America was more religious than it is right now. It still isn't a very good dystopia anyway.

I wonder why we can't have a new film version of Fahrenheit 451. That's arguably the dystopia that would have the most resonance today.
 
^I figure people just sorta take it for granted, tbh. This is the generation that coined the term "woke", after all. They probably think they're smarter than smelly ol' books written centuries ago by racist white men. And there's the "WE HOLD THE TRUTH Trump/the alt-right is inventing stuff WE ARE THE ONES SPREADING THE TRUTH blah blah blah"
 
friedshrimp said:
^I figure people just sorta take it for granted, tbh. This is the generation that coined the term "woke", after all. They probably think they're smarter than smelly ol' books written centuries ago by racist white men. And there's the "WE HOLD THE TRUTH Trump/the alt-right is inventing stuff WE ARE THE ONES SPREADING THE TRUTH blah blah blah"
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I also assume they'd hate a new adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 because it is made explicit in the story that this dystopian world came about in part because of calls to ban works that upset people's feels.
 
friedshrimp said:
^I figure people just sorta take it for granted, tbh. This is the generation that coined the term "woke", after all. They probably think they're smarter than smelly ol' books written centuries ago by racist white men. And there's the "WE HOLD THE TRUTH Trump/the alt-right is inventing stuff WE ARE THE ONES SPREADING THE TRUTH blah blah blah"
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Bradbury predicted a world where people mindlessly destroy ideas they don't like do they can fuck around on social media in peace, then lived just long enough to see every single thing he said would happen (right down to iPod earbuds) come true.
 
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I think handmaid's tale is really timely to make, actually, given the spread of a militant misogynist religion at the moment. yes, I mean Islam. I re read it recently. while the book sets it as white Christianity for a bogeyman, you don't have to stay nailed to that to get the message that the Big Desert Gods could fuck shit up for ladies if they get enough power.

sperging more, Fahrenheit 451 is another one that's perfect timing. I thought Westworld being remade was perfect timing as well.

there's a good bunch of sci fi dystopia stuff out there that directly comments on current events, some if it way old and some new. tms will write endless complaints about it being problematic unless it's about white cis straight dudes owning white women. I haven't watched the handmaid's tale show, but I can take a guess that it's basically their fantasy series. they aren't nuanced enough to make the connection to Islam and Saudi Arabia and that real women are living that way as we speak, though.

I fucking hate tms.
 
resonancer said:
I think handmaid's tale is really timely to make, actually, given the spread of a militant misogynist religion at the moment. yes, I mean Islam. I re read it recently. while the book sets it as white Christianity for a bogeyman, you don't have to stay nailed to that to get the message that the Big Desert Gods could fuck shit up for ladies if they get enough power.

sperging more, Fahrenheit 451 is another one that's perfect timing. I thought Westworld being remade was perfect timing as well.

there's a good bunch of sci fi dystopia stuff out there that directly comments on current events, some if it way old and some new. tms will write endless complaints about it being problematic unless it's about white cis straight dudes owning white women. I haven't watched the handmaid's tale show, but I can take a guess that it's basically their fantasy series. they aren't nuanced enough to make the connection to Islam and Saudi Arabia and that real women are living that way as we speak, though.

I fucking hate tms.
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Well, those people in Saudi Arabia are brown, though, so it's none of their business what they do with their lives.
 
AnOminous said:
Utterly idiotic shit like this is why as soon as I hear the word "privilege" I just instantly ignore anything else the moron who said that says.
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It really is sad so many people think turning every comedy bit into the "Lol Fuck Trump" hour is some kind of moral imperative.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
It really is sad so many people think turning every comedy bit into the "Lol Fuck Trump" hour is some kind of moral imperative.
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I thought Jimmy Fallon was supposed to be the inoffensive nice guy. Like, that's his shtick.

So now you're mad that he wants to stick to the thing that he's been doing the whole time, and trying to say that he needs to be political when old people watch him?
 
I like how they got the "With great power there must also come great responsibility" thing wrong. It should be"With great privilege there must also come great responsibility, Jimmy Fallon". Then again, everyone fucks that up.

Meowthkip said:
I thought Jimmy Fallon was supposed to be the inoffensive nice guy. Like, that's his shtick.

So now you're mad that he wants to stick to the thing that he's been doing the whole time, and trying to say that he needs to be political when old people watch him?
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These are the kind of people who believe everything is inherently political. You can't "be political", you are political 100% of the time. Your bowel movements need to be a political statement and that statement should be "Fuck Trump".
 
What, no "Trump is going to make The Handmaid's Tale real!!!" article this week?

RockVolnutt said:
These are the kind of people who believe everything is inherently political. You can't "be political", you are political 100% of the time. Your bowel movements need to be a political statement and that statement should be "Fuck Trump".
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I hate people who think that all art is political. I really do.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
What, no "Trump is going to make The Handmaid's Tale real!!!" article this week?



I hate people who think that all art is political. I really do.
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IF such a concept was true, does that mean "The Stupid's Die" is nihilistic masterpiece?
 
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