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moira my goat

at first I wondered why they let the other handmaids see the births since keeping people in the dark is a way to exert power over them but ACTUALLY teaching them to associate birth with freedom is. sick.

"I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. [...] Pleasure is an egg. Blessings can be counted, on the fingers of one hand" (113, 114)

this whole page. oh my god

ps men are taught to perform masculinity for one another

ps men are taught to perform masculinity for one another

“maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men." oh my god

the way Atwood wrote this by synthesizing societies that have and do exist. it's not beyond reach. and I HATE to say that