Margaret Atwood: I Thought I Was Writing Fiction

In all seriousness, I have never read The Handmaid’s Tale or watched a single episode of the television show. I’m really just trolling the libs by using the imagery in the banner. I’m making fun of utterly deluded feminists like Margaret Atwood who are so extreme that they compare pregnancy to slavery. They are the ones who are deluded, who have changed, who are radically out of touch with the rest of the world, not us. We seem “extreme” to them due to the distance they have traveled in recent years.

The Atlantic:

“In the early years of the 1980s, I was fooling around with a novel that explored a future in which the United States had become disunited. Part of it had turned into a theocratic dictatorship based on 17th-century New England Puritan religious tenets and jurisprudence. I set this novel in and around Harvard University—an institution that in the 1980s was renowned for its liberalism, but that had begun three centuries earlier chiefly as a training college for Puritan clergy.

In the fictional theocracy of Gilead, women had very few rights, as in 17th-century New England. The Bible was cherry-picked, with the cherries being interpreted literally. Based on the reproductive arrangements in Genesis—specifically, those of the family of Jacob—the wives of high-ranking patriarchs could have female slaves, or “handmaids,” and those wives could tell their husbands to have children by the handmaids and then claim the children as theirs.

Although I eventually completed this novel and called it The Handmaid’s Tale, I stopped writing it several times, because I considered it too far-fetched. Silly me. Theocratic dictatorships do not lie only in the distant past: There are a number of them on the planet today. What is to prevent the United States from becoming one of them? …”

Is the United States on the cusp of becoming a theocratic dictatorship?

When the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade in 1973, it nullified the abortion laws of 46 states. Needless to say, the United States in the 1960s wasn’t anything like a Puritan theocracy in which handmaids were the sex slaves of Christian patriarchs. It was a less degenerate country. The real dystopia is what we are living through now in the age of deregulated sexuality, TikTok, OnlyFans and Tinder. If you are actually into that kind of kink though and want to see women degraded, you can easily find every imaginable niche of hardcore pornography on the internet with a few clicks on your smartphone. There are things which are happening in real life which make Gilead look hokey by comparison.

My actual view is that the demise of Roe v. Wade isn’t going to change much. Some states will make it harder to get an abortion. Some states will make it easier to get an abortion. Abortion was already in long term decline anyway. Most abortions these days occur through the use of a pill. Women who want to get abortion will either travel to a Blue State or take the abortion pill. There will probably be a decline in the official number of abortions in Red States, but abortion isn’t going away even with state legislation criminalizing it. The demise of Roe is more likely to increase polarization and undermine other Supreme Court decisions like Obergefell than have a real meaningful impact on abortion.

Far from living in the world of The Handmaid’s Tale, women have never had more sexual freedom in all of world history or more control over reproduction. Men have never been less involved in these decisions. The thing that is unique about our times is the diminishment of male authority and how sexuality has become so deeply associated with individual freedom and self expression. We have opened up a Pandora’s Box of genders and deviant lifestyles each of which is held to be as good as any other.

43 Comments

  1. Look let me explain something to you, the divisiveness is a not by accident. It is very real. And there is going to come a point in which things are going to split apart. The only way to keep it together would be through fascism, authoritarian rule. The guilty must avoid blame so the ground work is being laid by people like Greg Johnson and Chris Hedges to finger Christians for the coming authoritarian rule. It is better to just split apart but the people with power are not going to let that happen.

      • @Pilot—–for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The Jews by there very actions, their anti-civilization conduct create the conditions that lead to authoritarian rule. Do you honestly expect the Jews to take full responsibility for the harm they caused? The Jews need a scapegoat and Greg Johnson And Chris Hedges are laying the ground work for blaming Christians for the coming Jew instigated authoritarian rule AKA fascism.

        • Christians are a problem. A big problem. Embracing “everyone” as “God’s children” and worshipping Jews are big problems.

          • @Pilot—–yes kyke Christians are a big problem for those who prey upon the weak and the innocent, like yourself and your kind. Why did you kill Christ kyke? And don’t not tell me you are not a Jew, you reek of it.

        • @ Robert Browning
          Why do worship a “kyke” as God creator of nature ans reality?
          What cognitive dissonance!!!

          you cannot save a race that does not want to
          be saved. The overwhelming majority of
          whites do not want to be saved… and so I
          don’t even really try, any more.
          Run along now and worship your God

  2. America does have a theocratic dictatorship. Political Correctness is our state imposed, Anti-White religion.

      • How can any religion without Christ,…be considered rational? It’s not. It’s satanic. And Atwood? She’s a Jew ideologically, and her greatest fears are that God’s people would restore God’s law for GoD’s covenanted nation. Let them all cry bitter tears.

    • @more of the same—Yeah but the coming authoritarian rule (fascism) is not going to be blamed on wokeness (aka the religion of the Moshiach/anti-Christ or its promoters (Jews) it is going to be blamed on innocent Christians. Hatred of the innocent is the fruit of the Jews, it is what they produce. Greg Johnson is really clued in to the future plans schemes and connivences of the Jews. I’d keep an eye on him if you want the real scoop on where you are being misled.

    • Yes it does. Folks like Atwood making this claim is a classic example of projection. The Church of Woke is the state religion of a theocratic empire, of which Chiquitastan is the epicenter. Nosferatu is something akin to the “pope” of wokeism. The “theo” (Satan) worshipped by those who run the empire isn’t the same as the one worshipped by the tiny remnant of Christians (Christ).

  3. “”… to change much…””

    Depends. It will push liberal madness over the edge and this will change very much. Gorbachev wanted new union contract. Nobody was interested because this proposal was nothing more than status quo under new name.

    Gorbachev himself went to the vacation to Crimea because even he understood that nobody will care about his new brainchild and because of that there is no point to sit in Kremlin in the summer. waiting for phone calls what will never come.

    But our liberals went mad, brought tanks to the street and blew up Soviet Union. Gorbachev random stupid idea transformed in the liberal sick brain to something serious and dangerous what needed immediate action.

    “””….Theocratic dictatorships do not lie only in the distant past: There are a number of them on the planet today. What is to prevent the United States from becoming one of them? ….”””

    Lenin 1917 style violent move to communism. At least they think so.

      • I’d argue it was earlier then that. 1910-1913.

        1. William Howard Taft ended the trade relations with Russia that Andrew Jackson started, and Taft was a known Philo-Semite. Jewish power was in all out war with Russia and the Romanov family by then, as evidenced by Czar Nicholas II and his pograms of 1905. The Bolshevik Revolution occurred within the decade, funded, of course, by Western bankers.

        2. Speaking of those bankers, in 1913, the creature from Jekyl Island was manufactured into existence. Woodrow Wilson was President when it happened. I don’t talk about the Federal Reserve much because its effectively a mainstream concern within normie circles, but from the Pro-White POV, the Federal Reserve represents the stamp of Jewish dominance on America’s economic system, which, since 1945, has become the global center of the world economic system.

        To be clear, I think JFK did something to piss off Jewish power, and I absolutely believe his assassination was a setup. I’ve gone back and forth on what that could have been: Bringing back the National Bank? Failing to get the U.S. into WW3 with the Soviets? Banging Marilyn Monroe?!? Hell if I know.

        But the fact is, Jewish control of America was complete by the time JFK was President. I’d say the last President we had who enacted laws that benefitted White Americans, and whose mindset could be considered “Pro-White,” was Calvin Coolidge, who signed the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act.

        Jews and Liberals hadn’t yet seized control of America’s cultural levers in the 1920s, although the process of that was in motion. When Charles Lindberg and the America First movement lost the culture war to keep us out of Europe, Jewish control of all levers of power was completed.

        • Agree with your timeline. I think the Jack Whack was the final step in (((their))) taking total control – a statement of “we own it all now and will do whatever we please”. Kennedy would never have ordered the abortion of the rescue operation being prepared by the navy of the USS Liberty in 1967. The Crypto-Jew LBJ didn’t even hesitate. His abort order was an act of treason which should have gotten him impeached, convicted and executed in short order. Proof that by 1967, the republic was totally dead. Juan McStain’s daddy even authored the cover-up report. The political direction has been unidirectional and all permitted opposition has been either fake-and-gay (Lady G) or controlled (Ron and Rand Paul) ever since.

  4. I can visualize a “handmaids” society developing but for a very different reason. What if every woman who was “vaccinated” for covid19 lost their children due to miscarriage and were no longer able to conceive again? That would leave the purebloods, they would be a very special class of women likely sought by men with money to raise children.

  5. Why not give attention to REAL issues? Homosexual, feminist and other forms of liberal Identity Politics are FAKE issues designed to distract, divert and deflect from seeing REALITY, which is: the class system headed by the capitalist elites and bourgeois who exploit the masses. The masses need real, useful information about real issues, not the sort of “information” (disinformation) dispensed by Tucker Carlson and the other Faux News stars.

    • I think pederasts systematically grooming children through the public school system can be considered a real issue.

    • Agree. Millions pouring over the border. The lack of baby formula is because Biden has it being shipped the border. Americans really need to understand that plugging a small hole in a dam while the dam is collapsing is fruitless. We have lost our country and if these politicians don’t scroll back, it’s gone. There’s too many nonwhites coming in.

  6. Leave it to a Jew-controlled rag like The Atlantic to publish such overwrought nonsense — shit like this and Sex and the City (created by and starring a Jew; overall, like almost everything in the entertainment industry, Sex and the City was a very Jewy production) have subverted the impressionable minds of literally tens of millions of young women, while the reality is (for what it’s worth) that the self-reported happiness of women today is significantly lower than it was half a century ago (it is similar for men) — they end up in unfulfilling jobs that leave them feeling emotionally and spiritually forlorn.

    • “subverted the impressionable minds of literally tens of millions of young women,”

      That’s the plan.

      Sow confusion among your enemies…….torah

  7. My actual view is that the demise of Roe v. Wade isn’t going to change much. Some states will make it harder to get an abortion. Some states will make it easier to get an abortion. Abortion was already in long term decline anyway. Most abortions these days occur through the use of a pill. Women who want to get abortion will either travel to a Blue State or take the abortion pill. There will probably be a decline in the official number of abortions in Red States, but abortion isn’t going away even with state legislation criminalizing it. The demise of Roe is more likely to increase polarization and undermine other Supreme Court decisions like Obergefell than have a real meaningful impact on abortion.

    This is very much how I see it as well. All the hand-wringing on the part of the Greg Johnson quarter is overblown rhetoric. Shaniqua won’t even have to drive far to flush the latest fruit of her casual mating with Shitavious into the trough of Schlmo’s body-part factory – for which someone is paying money on the front end while Schlomo is making many billions of shekels on the back end. Hell the white shitlibs, who never lack money, will arrange caravans to states they control. If you’ve been paying some attention, such states are actually removing all restrictions on the evil practice so the full renderings from partial-birth abortions can be harvested by Schlomo – the very same folks worshipped as demigods by retarded “Christian” Zionists.

    • Shaniqua doesn’t have any incentive to get an abortion. The government already rewards her for having children. It is the strivers who get abortions usually for career or education reasons. College graduates get a lot of abortions

      • Yeppers on that. 19-25 year old college girls seem to be the big users of Planned Infanticide.

  8. >Women who want to get abortion will either travel to a Blue State or take the abortion pill.

    I imagine states that enact legislation to ban surgical abortion will also take measures to (further) restrict medical abortion (the drugs for medical abortion already require a prescription in the US) — it does not make much sense to outlaw surgical abortion while still allowing medical abortion under the same conditions that surgical abortion was formerly allowed (albeit surgical abortion has always been the more obvious target for pro-life activists).

    If surgical (and/or medical) abortion is outlawed, I do not think there should be punishment for women who seek an abortion — only punishment or disincentives for providers — while abortion will no doubt be easier to control, similar to what I said before about affirmative action and the sheer widespread amount of hiring and admitting, a ban on abortion should be seen as fundamentally an appeal to conscience.

  9. “strivers who get abortions usually for career or education reasons. College graduates get a lot of abortions”

    Dysgenics at work.

    • Only if you go by the theory that the higher the IQ, the more valuable the person.

      Obviously, we don’t want the average White IQ to sink below the level possible needed to sustain and maintain a 1st world civilization, but at the same time, I question whether Whites with an IQ above 110 are just destroying the world and making everything worse in their so-called “noble” quest to “save the world.”

      Maybe there should be forced sterilization for Whites *above* a certain IQ level?

    • Yup. Margaret Atwood didn’t change. The “Religious Right” is her eternal boggeyman. Its the eternal boogyman of all Social Liberals.

      I haven’t read the novel, and have no intention of doing so. But after getting my Hulu subscription, and seeing that HandMaid’s Talewas on there, I took a deep breath and forced myself to watch it.

      I got through Season 1 before giving in and spoiling myself by reading the plot synopsis for each episode on the wikipedia page. As a motion picture production, its just nonstop torture porn with limited character development and a plot that develops at such a molasses pace that its insulting to the viewer. I needed to know the plot was going somewhere, or I wasn’t going to make it through the show.

      Sure enough, it does go somewhere, and some of the characters get marginally more interesting. But the torture porn never stops. I became immune to it by Season 3. There’s not a single scene in that show that makes me feel sympathy for June Osborn, the main character, and the showtitle’s namesake (the entire book and show is from her POV, with only a handful of scenes from the POV other characters, most of which still revolve around their direct relation to June)

      All that being said, I’m glad I forced myself to sit down and stare into this abyss of a show, because it taught me two important things:

      1. How the Enemy sees us

      2. What the Enemy values

      Its breathtaking to see their fear and their hate. We really are monsters from their POV. And through the character of June Osborn, we get a confirmation of everything Hunter identified in the fall of 2020 after the BLM riots. June is the manifestation of Modernism, in almost every possible way.

      Before the establishment of Gilead, she eloped with a Black man named Luke who left his Black wife, Annie, to be with June. Annie confronts June in one of the flashbacks, calls her a whore, and reveals that she was the first woman Luke had slept with. Yes, Luke and June had a kid together, a girl named Hannah, and yes, June getting her halfbrood back is a core theme of the show.

      But its honestly way worse then that. At a deeper level. Her justifications for everything she does just drip with selfishness and ressentiment.

      When she gets pregnant as a Handmaid, she whispers to her baby in the womb, in such a loving tone, “I’m gonna get you out of here. I’m not gonna let you grow up in this place.” She is passive-aggressive in all of her interactions. She’s deliberately rude, slow to respond and acknowledge her superiors, who have total power over her, and in the first two seasons, she takes no action to get herself out of her situation. She expects everyone else to do things for her.

      Later on, when she enacts her plan to get a bunch of children out of Gilead, one of the little girls asks her what Canada will be like, since Gilead is all she knew. June tells this impressionable little girl how she will be free to “dress however you want, eat whatever you want, love whoever you want, do whatever you want.” Again, all said with a smile and a loving tone. (In the same scene, she uses a gun to prevent the little girl from going back to her home. You will be liberated, and you will like it!)

      There’s nothing surprising at all about the Left’s reaction to this Roe vs. Wade stuff, with the red costumes and stuff. We’re dealing with a generation of people that watched this garbage and believe it. Is it any wonder the deep blue college town of Charlottesville allowed our foes to run loose? We are Fred Waterford and Serena Joy to them. We are “The Eyes” and the “Sons of Jacob” to them. Christian teachers and Christian administrators are Aunt Lydia to them. Donald Trump is Commander Winslow to them.

      HandMaid’s Tale opened my eyes to how bad things really are. Its going to be a struggle to change things. I’m for whatever we can do within our legal rights and sphere of influence to subordinate these people and thwart their power. Up to and including enabling the Republican Party, which they unironically see as “Fascist” and “Authoritarian.” This is way more then a few spoiled brats not getting their way. They see themselves as June Osborn. They see themselves as Emily the Carpetmuncher. They see themselves as MayDay.

      We need to take them seriously.

  10. I’m sure rat-face Atwood & all the feminist shitlibs who incessantly shriek for totally unrestricted abortion in the name of womyn’s sacred “choice” would enthusiastically approve of a drive for men to also be able to “choose” by signing a legal document to abjure all parental & financial responsibility for any “clump of cells” resulting from a pleasurable evening of the ol’ in-&-out.

  11. Without looking at her bio ( which is probably inaccurate anyway) I’m going say that MizzZz Atwood had a disastrous marriage at a young age and has been a man-hating “feminist” ever since. Or perhaps she had a few abortions from several failed relationships, yes? Maybe she was the “beard” for a husband who was a closeted homosexual?

    I wonder if….just hear me out…..I wonder if one of those disastrous relationships with men included a tryst with Brownie the Clownie?????

  12. “Theocratic dictatorships do not lie only in the distant past: There are a number of them on the planet today. What is to prevent the United States from becoming one of them?” says the evil-looking (to me) Margaret Atwood. She’s partly right because the US is a theocracy now, only the “god” those in charge worship is Satan.

  13. I don’t know what this series is about as I’ve never seen it, but I remember back in the 90s cable ran a Handmaid’s Tale movie staring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, and Robert Duvall.

    • All based on Attwood’s book from the 1980s. Basically feminist nightmare porn about Jerry Fallwell as General Franco of the Fascist States of Amurika (Fallwell was no Franco – who actually kicked Bolshevik ass) penned by a loyal cadre of Soviet Kanuckistan. Intelligent young women would become denizens of harems for Fallwell and friends, reduced to baby-making machines. Yes it’s that laughable. Naturally she got some bigtime Jew-York book awards and endless promotion for her “literary masterpiece”.

      • I read the first five books of the KJ Bible recently, Only Genesis is actually interesting and a bit at the beginning of Exodus, the rest is largely a law book on blemish free goats needed for all these temple sacrifices, etc. The story gets interesting again in Joshua which I am in the middle of as I seek to try to understand this book that has such important cultural significance. I can see this is inspired by the Jacob stories, he had two wives and two “handmaids”, (is this where Muhammad got his four wife limit in the Koran?) Jacob is portrayed as this poor mope at the mercy of his Uncle, but in reality this guy, if real, must have been a very privileged elite to have had this harem. Sort of like how in Shakespeare most of the characters are high ranking nobility with all these relationship problems. Funny thing though is this “Gilead” sounds better than what we have now. Any society with a declining birthrate is Darwinianly unfit in the struggle between nations. It doesn’t matter how “high tech” it seems if some third world hellhole inherits the earth in a century simply by being there after all the career bitches, cat ladies, woke brats, video game nerds, etc. fail to replicate themselves.

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