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	<title>Comments on: The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale Revisited: All our Dystopian Tomorrows @MargaretAtwood</title>
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		<title>By: Wyeth Bailey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wyeth Bailey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I,too, read this book when it first came out (as a young lesbian struggling with radical feminism, which I eventually rejected because I just enjoy filthy sex and money too damn much ;-) I have been thinking about it frequently in US election season, not just the men in power, but the women. When I look at Mitt Romney&#039;s wife and listen to her speak, when I ask myself why in the world is there such a thing as a woman who would vote Republican today, indeed even a lesbian woman (it&#039;s true, I know at least one!)I remember the character of the wife. She didn&#039;t carry the baby. I remember (albeit somewhat vaguely) the baby she didn&#039;t carry, and the power that gave her (economic/class), and yet took away. I am considering rereading to better understand the subtleties, though I don&#039;t think it will help my current debilitating insomnia. Is it December yet?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I,too, read this book when it first came out (as a young lesbian struggling with radical feminism, which I eventually rejected because I just enjoy filthy sex and money too damn much <img src='http://remittancegirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  I have been thinking about it frequently in US election season, not just the men in power, but the women. When I look at Mitt Romney&#8217;s wife and listen to her speak, when I ask myself why in the world is there such a thing as a woman who would vote Republican today, indeed even a lesbian woman (it&#8217;s true, I know at least one!)I remember the character of the wife. She didn&#8217;t carry the baby. I remember (albeit somewhat vaguely) the baby she didn&#8217;t carry, and the power that gave her (economic/class), and yet took away. I am considering rereading to better understand the subtleties, though I don&#8217;t think it will help my current debilitating insomnia. Is it December yet?</p>
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		<title>By: janeway</title>
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		<dc:creator>janeway</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read The Handmaid&#039;s Tale in 1985,when it was first published.  I truly loathed it, because I&#039;m basically a HEA kind of person.  But every time I hear of or read about another attack on personal freedom by self-identified Christians, I think of this book.  And, fundamentally, I agree with your belief that it is - frighteningly - becoming ever more timely.

As an aside, when writing this comment, I reached an impasse on what term(s) to use to describe those people, in many different political, cultural, and religion-based groups, who are actively seeking to curtail personal freedoms in the US, particularly as they apply to or are exercised by women.  I found that the adjectives I would have used have all been usurped and, ultimately, perverted by these people.  They are neither Christian, nor religious, nor even conservative; not even dogmatic, in the correct sense of the word.  Through their hate-filled speech and action, they have corrupted words and concepts that should be, at best, terms of respect, and at the very least, a neutral description.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale in 1985,when it was first published.  I truly loathed it, because I&#8217;m basically a HEA kind of person.  But every time I hear of or read about another attack on personal freedom by self-identified Christians, I think of this book.  And, fundamentally, I agree with your belief that it is &#8211; frighteningly &#8211; becoming ever more timely.</p>
<p>As an aside, when writing this comment, I reached an impasse on what term(s) to use to describe those people, in many different political, cultural, and religion-based groups, who are actively seeking to curtail personal freedoms in the US, particularly as they apply to or are exercised by women.  I found that the adjectives I would have used have all been usurped and, ultimately, perverted by these people.  They are neither Christian, nor religious, nor even conservative; not even dogmatic, in the correct sense of the word.  Through their hate-filled speech and action, they have corrupted words and concepts that should be, at best, terms of respect, and at the very least, a neutral description.</p>
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		<title>By: Forrest Franks</title>
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		<dc:creator>Forrest Franks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok</p>
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		<title>By: Remittance Girl</title>
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		<dc:creator>Remittance Girl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read the book, Frank. :P]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just read the book, Frank. <img src='http://remittancegirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Forrest Franks</title>
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		<dc:creator>Forrest Franks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yup Yup, and I love your pic on fb. You take a beautiful pic my dear. Haven&#039;t quite figured out why you hide so much but y our beautiful. I am right and you are wrong ;))))))]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yup Yup, and I love your pic on fb. You take a beautiful pic my dear. Haven&#8217;t quite figured out why you hide so much but y our beautiful. I am right and you are wrong <img src='http://remittancegirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> )))))</p>
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