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That's because she's a groundbreaking feminist author who has a huge platform. Thanks to the adaptation of her work on television. The Handsome Maid's Tale is essentially part of feminist Canon. However, due to Atwood sharing the turf type of opinion piece, I'm now considering how transdisclusionary is this content, you would think there would be trans individuals in this world created by Atwood. That is because it is a world that enforces a strict gender binary
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 4:46
However, also, Mark Outwood has largely been writing and creating content around the time that feminism was focused on equality for women, around toxic situations that came about the patriarchy and views and trans rights and trans people in general were not really a thing, especially back when she wrote Handmaid's Tale in general
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 3:49
Now think you're totally right about the book, that it was not a subject that was really talked about a lot and feminism didn't really address it and that it makes sense that they wouldn't be alive or would be exiled if they had been any Frank. But there could have been trans people who weren't coming out at the time, that could have been affected. And so you could have seen their inner life and their experience without anybody knowing that they were trans
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 4:33
I also feel like the Testaments that was only written because so many fans wanted the story resolved, so I don't know if you've read it, but it's again kind of following very specific characters who are already there in the first books, and one of them was brought up in Gilead, so just wouldn't even maybe even know what trans means because certainly she's not even allowed to learn to read and write. And Gillia, I'd let her know learn about transsexuality
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 4:48
But I think that if we really wanted to drill down to what is the message of the Hammy's tale, and her work in general is that she sees that the biological capacity to carry a child and to be impregnated is what is essential to being a woman, and that the violence that men, the power of the men have comes from the fact that they don't have that biological capacity and the ability to carry children, and that she would see a male to female trans individual who is a woman as being a different kind of woman or not, a woman who can be subjected to control in the same way that the men can that there's a fate worse than death and that men could be killed and male to female trans women could be killed, but they're not going to be controlled in the same way that women will
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 0:10
I'm going to give you a couple of interesting articles that I read that kind of express what we're talking about. A little bit more
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 4:14
I just feel like handmade sale is quite an interesting one because of the points made and then the article that you shared link to seem very similar in terms of that, a lot of people that would have been saved that were gender traitors, which I hate using the term, but obviously that's a term used in the franchise. They would have been saved had they been made in handmade and obviously biologically, a male to female trans woman wouldn't have come under that
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