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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the handmaids tale - by Atwoods own words - is just placing stuff that white people already did to brown people in the context of doing it to white people.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really? I thought The Handmaiden's Tale is inspired from when the theocrats took over Iran and suppressed women's rights? And depending who you ask, Iranians are not white.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

well there's lots of inspirations. Iran was one, Nazis, Soviet Union, North American Native Peoples, slavery, Cambodia, India, female circumcision...