This reminds me -- I thought I already wrote a thread about this, but I couldn't find it. When we talk about the various threats to reproductive rights going on in this country --
https://twitter.com/valarkooshpa/status/1397267608236265473
We often talk about how we're going to BECOME the "Republic of Gilead" from The Handmaid's Tale. My thesis is that we ALREADY ARE the Republic of Gilead.
Similar to where we are on racial justice & equality, sexual justice & equality is a thing we never ACTUALLY ACHIEVED before the fascists started pushing us to go backward.
Yes, things can get worse, because they can always get worse, but we never actually became NOT a patriarchal dystopia.
Only a member of a patriarchal dystopia that regarded women as property would even THINK about instituting something like this PA thing.
Only a member of a patriarchal dystopia that regarded women as property would even THINK about instituting something like this PA thing.
Women are able to vote and drive cars and stuff, so we don't THINK of ourselves as being a patriarchal dystopia, like Saudi Arabia, but we are. It's just unequally distributed, which is how dystopias always work.
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