the handmaids tale - by Atwoods own words - is just placing stuff that white people already did to brown people in the context of doing it to white people.
Really? I thought The Handmaiden’s Tale is inspired from when the theocrats took over Iran and suppressed women’s rights? And depending who you ask, Iranians are not white.
stop writing dystopian novels everyone. stop giving them ideas.
Too late, The Handmaid’s Tale has already been written.
the handmaids tale - by Atwoods own words - is just placing stuff that white people already did to brown people in the context of doing it to white people.
Really? I thought The Handmaiden’s Tale is inspired from when the theocrats took over Iran and suppressed women’s rights? And depending who you ask, Iranians are not white.
well there’s lots of inspirations. Iran was one, Nazis, Soviet Union, North American Native Peoples, slavery, Cambodia, India, female circumcision…
Only write solarpunk until something changes
I don’t have nearly enough hope to write in that genre.