AW6V1zphHVīut a news development this week brings us closer to one of Atwood’s other dystopias - the one in her MaddAddam trilogy.Īt UC Davis, the Guardian reports, researchers have created chimeric embryos that carry both human stem cells and pig DNA. I #WontBePunished for believing "The Handmaid's Tale" is a cautionary story, not a playbook. Under a Trump regime, said Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead, "we would look at The Handmaid’s Tale like Mad magazine." "I #WontBePunished for believing "The Handmaid's Tale" is a cautionary story, not a playbook," wrote Scott Wooledge on Twitter. "In Trump’s comments, there is an echo of the logic that drives Margaret Atwood’s dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale," wrote the New Statesman. As punishment, the woman is surrounded by a group of women chanting, "Your fault, it was your fault you were raped," until she breaks down. The most notable instance came after Donald Trump declared a need for " some form of punishment " for women who seek abortions, an idea that recalls the uncomfortably visceral Handmaid’s Tale scene in which a woman confesses she sought an abortion after being raped. The world of The Handmaid’s Tale been invoked many, many times throughout the current election cycle as the world we are clearly hurtling toward. Related Cat lovers and bird lovers are at war.
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