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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 May 2017

      1. If you want a break from the news I have some thoughts on the natalist bias of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 May 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. Atwood's novel bracingly feminist dystopian satire but every now & then conservatives (@DouthatNYT, Federalist) try to appropriate. Why?

      3 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 May 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

      3. Writing in The Walrus, @RobinGanev shrewdly links Atwood's portrayal of infertility with natalist 1950s psychology.

      2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 May 2017
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      4. There was a powerful strand of 1950s psychology that saw infertility as rooted in personal failure of womenpic.twitter.com/TaqgbE65VI

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 May 2017
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      5. Atwood's novel replicates much of that 1950s psychology in contrasting portrayal of fertile & infertile women

      6 replies 2 retweets 27 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 May 2017

      6. @RobinGanev's reading of the novel is very provocative & can be found here:https://thewalrus.ca/what-we-mean-when-we-talk-about-infertility/ …

      7:26 PM - 15 May 2017
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        1. irene campbelltaylor‏ @drirenect1 15 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @RobinGanev

          Unfortunately, it's not really a break from the news if one has a tendency to metaphor

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        1. irene campbelltaylor‏ @drirenect1 15 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @RobinGanev

          Of courseThey're only worth is a breeders, What is missing is the obvious fact that only a handful of males is required for species survival

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        2. Rachel Hartman‏Verified account @_rachelhartman 15 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @RobinGanev

          I haven't read the book, so can't speak to Atwood's word choices and depiction of Serena, but in the mini-series...

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        3. Rachel Hartman‏Verified account @_rachelhartman 15 May 2017
          Replying to @_rachelhartman @HeerJeet @RobinGanev

          I was seeing a lot of Purity Culture in Serena. It's not that she doesn't want sex -- she kind of tries, but her husband rejects her

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        2. worms cited‏ @christapeterso 15 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @RobinGanev

          ... under an oppressive society where they're reduced to livestock?pic.twitter.com/8P439Jald3

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        3. worms cited‏ @christapeterso 15 May 2017
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          This is not a good reading of the book.

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        2. Heather Hughson  🇺🇦‏ @HNHughson 15 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Interesting, but I disagree. It's Gilead, not the author, with the natalist bias - natalism is part of Gilead's dystopia. Her *potential* /1

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        3. Heather Hughson  🇺🇦‏ @HNHughson 15 May 2017
          Replying to @HNHughson @HeerJeet

          fertility makes Offred valuable and sexually desirable - men are attracted to her as a marker of power & prestige that having a handmaid /2

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