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jd 🔆

That time—today actually—when random guy mansplains The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale.
#books #handmaidstale

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Winjay

@jd Her name was right at the top, next to a checkmark, and he didn't think to learn who wrote the book he thinks he knows so much about. I'm in awe of the arrogance.

Khyrie

@jd I know this happens to women on the internet ALL the time. But wow this feels incredibly egregious.

Wulfy

@Khyrie @jd

It's not a gendered thing, it's an arrogant asshole thing.

I've seen authors of scientific papers having been told what their papers ACTUALLY show.

And people with doctorates in a very narrow and esoteric fields being told THE TRUTH about their personal area of expertise

It happens frequently enough to fill me with joy for the epic self own.

Mags at Large

@jd Oh my f••king word.
Obviously this fellow doesn't know the history of Western Civilisation and the role of christianity over the last two centuries. Yet, he is full of himself enough to make this declaration?! Is there a reward system for this kind of arrogant "splaining"?

jd 🔆

@maggiemartin
I think he got clobbered on social media, so there’s that.

Ray Lee

@jd it’s a shocking level of arrogance and blindness. Fuller screenshot for those who’d like to look it up:

Alarod

@jd “A Handmaid’s Tale” is about a time when radical Christianity becomes indistinguishable from radical Islam. It’s not a very far-fetched idea. Even when theocracies disagree on religion, they agree on fascism.

drukac

@Alarod @jd
Atwood wasn't just taking from the Iranian Revolution. She borrowed from the enslavement of Blacks and applied it to Whites, all under a Christian cutlure.

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥️ 🔶 (🌻🇺🇦)

@jd @piersb I've said elsewhere I find it immensely interesting that that's what the Christian nationalist right are telling themselves in order to justify ignoring the message in it.

FinchHaven

@jd

Islam, is it then?

One of the three Abrahamic religions, as I recall

A lot in common out at the far right, misogynist ends of all three Abrahamic religions, as I recall

cc @BruceMirken

Hugh Ferguson

@jd totally represents Christianity, at least the woman hating fundamentalist kind

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@jd
WTF🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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