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The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Come on, man? Don't bother with this absurd dystopia of where men are men and women are nervous. It fails both as SF and allegory. And, far from an indictment of supposedly onrushing fascism, what current society requires women to wear floor-to-ceiling attire? Hint: neither Tory Britian nor Republican America.
And as for Stephanie, below, she removed that section of her review demonstrating she doesn't know that Hobby Lobby wasn't a Constitutional case at all, but involved the interpretation of two statutes (Obamacare and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act). No one, least of all the court, is trying to take over your womb--especially me. It staggers me why people think birth control should be free but, say, migraine pills not. Yet, even apart from that, should you not like the outcome of the case: (1) don't so hastily pass a healthcare bill on a party-line basis without sufficient scrutiny; or (2) change either or both laws.
I wouldn't mind were RFRA repealed altogether, but call me amused that folks start screaming when a law that was passed to protect Native Americans and Zen Buddhists begins to be applied even-handily to Christians.
Even absent that part, about what, exactly is she complaining? (I'll ignore the uninformed reference to her opposition the the antiquated Electoral Cillege, without which the coasts would elect every Presisent.) Life in the First World is no Handmaid's Tale.
And as for Stephanie, below, she removed that section of her review demonstrating she doesn't know that Hobby Lobby wasn't a Constitutional case at all, but involved the interpretation of two statutes (Obamacare and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act). No one, least of all the court, is trying to take over your womb--especially me. It staggers me why people think birth control should be free but, say, migraine pills not. Yet, even apart from that, should you not like the outcome of the case: (1) don't so hastily pass a healthcare bill on a party-line basis without sufficient scrutiny; or (2) change either or both laws.
I wouldn't mind were RFRA repealed altogether, but call me amused that folks start screaming when a law that was passed to protect Native Americans and Zen Buddhists begins to be applied even-handily to Christians.
Even absent that part, about what, exactly is she complaining? (I'll ignore the uninformed reference to her opposition the the antiquated Electoral Cillege, without which the coasts would elect every Presisent.) Life in the First World is no Handmaid's Tale.
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