If only The Handmaid's Tale had highlighted a ban on condoms we might not be where we are today.
@alan hm, can you expand on this thought? it would definitely make the book less controversial, but would that affect society?
@sabbatical I'll see if I can expand on it without showing how much the sexism that still seems intrinsic to our society pisses me off, but it goes like this:
US restricts abortions. Men: some grumble.
US restricts access to morning after pill. Men: some grumble.
US hints at banning condoms: Men: WHAT THE FUCK? I"LL NOT STAND FOR THIS!!!
So maybe if Atwood (or more accurately the TV series) had that in there, it would have been more of a cautionary tale, less of a fucking blueprint.
@sabbatical So no, no less controversial. More a way to get a lot more men off their fucking asses to defend the rights of all.
@alan oh, you mean in addition to abortion, not instead… i dunno though. whether and how to end human lives (and how to define them) will always be controversial, i think, and it’s not as if it’s that big a split statistically between men and women on the issue — like single digits difference if i recall
@sabbatical I just think opposition to reproductive interventions by christofascists will be a lot stronger when it starts interfering with the freedoms of men versus women. If Handmaid's had included that, then the opposition would be primed already. As it stands, there may only be a few months before it's too late.