The thing I've noticed about Handmaid's Tale rhetoric, just like most rhetoric on threats to abortion rights, is that it's casually transphobic by excluding our trans comrades who also need abortions.
Yes but I mean irl. Organizing around abortion has centered gendered rhetoric that implicitly looks over men, non-binary people, etc - anyone who can get pregnant and therefore anyone who needs abortions.
It's understandable in that the anti-abortion is grounded in misogyny, but it's also something that I would expect to be better among comrades (versus libs), and it honestly really isn't.
Oh for sure. What I mean is that "gender traitors" in Atwood's work are rareish by virtue of being exterminated (I think there are lesbian characters but not too much queerness) and the work being a 'product of her time.' By extension, people who don't have the vocabulary or impetus to be inclusive don't have a pop-culture media property to push the language on them (fans would be quick to meme a transman character if he existed).
It's a vehicle for focusing on their preconceived notions. Libs and Radlibs are notoriously educated by fiction works, unfortunately.
The thing I've noticed about Handmaid's Tale rhetoric, just like most rhetoric on threats to abortion rights, is that it's casually transphobic by excluding our trans comrades who also need abortions.
I think canonically, lgbt people got genocided.
Yes but I mean irl. Organizing around abortion has centered gendered rhetoric that implicitly looks over men, non-binary people, etc - anyone who can get pregnant and therefore anyone who needs abortions.
It's understandable in that the anti-abortion is grounded in misogyny, but it's also something that I would expect to be better among comrades (versus libs), and it honestly really isn't.
Oh for sure. What I mean is that "gender traitors" in Atwood's work are rareish by virtue of being exterminated (I think there are lesbian characters but not too much queerness) and the work being a 'product of her time.' By extension, people who don't have the vocabulary or impetus to be inclusive don't have a pop-culture media property to push the language on them (fans would be quick to meme a transman character if he existed).
It's a vehicle for focusing on their preconceived notions. Libs and Radlibs are notoriously educated by fiction works, unfortunately.
Ah that makes total sense, thanks for explaining it to me