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In reply to the discussion: Amy Coney Barrett is not a handmaid [View all]Walleye
(31,008 posts)5. She knows she's above the law. She's not gonna be subject to her own rulings.
These laws against abortion or for poor women only and we all know it
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Except for the time when she served as what is known as a handmaid in People of Praise.
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
#1
Thank you. Sounds like a more highly successful version of Tulsi Gabbard. Do you have some links?
Hekate
Sep 2021
#35
The author of the Handmaid's tale was aware of Catholic cults and adopted the term for her novel. nt
pnwmom
Sep 2021
#18
More people are familiar with the series than Phoney Barrett's church/cult affiliation
FoxNewsSucks
Sep 2021
#28
Also, mapping the HT universe onto current events erases the reality of a lot of people who aren't
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
#10
THT focuses on the experience of white women and posits a dystopian future,
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
#32
True. But when it comes to forced rape pregnancy of a handmaid, she is the enforcer of rape and
boston bean
Sep 2021
#24
Thank you....been trying to explain that here and to others saying that in conversations
Pachamama
Sep 2021
#34