Interesting that in the story, it wasn't stated outright. However, the head of
the household in the story, may have been the one with the fertility problem
although no one would admit it. The wife desperately wanted a child. There was
a male driver, also paart of the household. The wife arranged for him and the
handmaid to have sexual intercourse without the husband's knowledge with the
hope that the handmaid would become pregnant. If she continued not to become
pregnant, she would either have been put to death or sent to the colonies.
Miriam
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So what happens in this Fantasy Land when it's the Man who is unable to produce
babies? Do they send in another fellow to bed the man's wife?
Fair is fair!
Anyway, with our unfeeling Corporate Capitalistic government, our hard won
gainins for women's rights are beginning to erode. But then, so is all of our
social gains.
Carl Jarvis
On 7/5/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bonnie,
Have you ever read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood? It was
written in
1986 and I didn't read it back then. But it's become popular again now.
Guess why. And a TV mini-series was made from it. So I just read it.
It's the story of the US having been turned into a theocracy called
Gilead where women are at home, breeding children. For families in
which the wife is barren, a fertile woman is supplied to bear the
babies. There's a lot more to the story than that, but you get the point.
Miriam
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Sherrell
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Female
I know that my son-in-law subscribed to the school of thought that
conceives of women as being too emotional to properly care for
themselves--in spite of the fact that due to his multiple biochemical
and personality disorders and his multiple addictions he'd not been
able for years to keep a job, while his wife had to work to support
the family. Same with the family doctor we saw when I was a kid. He
felt women needed their emotions to be controlled chemically, even if
he had to lie to my mother about what he was prescribing for her and
why. Then my younger grandson is the same way, and at seventeen tried
to bully his mother into not doing what he disapproved of.
We've come a long way, baby, only to find our male chauvinist pig of a
president and his fellows are doing their best to shove us back into
staying home, barefoot. pregnant, and illiterate.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the
very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
We gave the Goblin King control of our nation!