This has been one of the top sources of Internet mirth to circulate in the last few days, and with good cause. What makes it really funny, though, is that not only is dickhead here mansplaining Atwood’s own book at her, he’s doing it WRONG. Atwood did say that the Islamic Revolution was a partial inspiration, but her observations of the American religious right and the state of Canadian politics by the end of the 70s were the bigger one… and that Gilead was specifically inspired by her study of the early Puritan period. of America, a country whose history has never contained an Islamic era. Faces out of context? Facts out of arse, more like it…
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