I don't know if any of you have been watching A Handmaid's Tale, on Hulu, but it's pretty eerily similar to the totalitarian theocratic state Joseph Smith and Brigham Young created, to effectively prey upon their young 'handmaids' like Fanny Alger and the Lawrence Sisters, making them their sex slaves to spread their righteous (superior White Male Authority) seed far and wide, like the sands of the sea and the stars in the night.


It just got 3 nominations for the Golden Globes for Best TV Drama, Best Actress and best supporting Actress. It's quite timely with all the "Me too" stories coming out lately and so many powerful abusers going down for preying upon far less powerful women, except the sexual predator Mormons and Evangelicals put in office.

The reckoning is coming.



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Per the author, it is based on lots of things. She took pains to account for every instance of female subjugation by reference to actual practices- some old, many currently practiced.

Am I the only one that sees the parallels beteeen "Handmaids Tale" and how Mormons formed a totalitarian theocracy to cuckold their followers by turning their wives and teenage daughters into breed stock?

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> Am I the only one that sees the parallels beteeen
> "Handmaids Tale" and how Mormons formed a
> totalitarian theocracy to cuckold their followers
> by turning their wives and teenage daughters into
> breed stock?

I haven't see the Hulu series but in the 1990 movie, what it had to do with was more based on the environmental issues (radiation I believe) that left most women sterile.

So that those who could have children were enslaved and sold to the wealthy couples in order to have children.

There really wasnt any sense of Mormonism in it, at all.

I saw the 1990 movie.

There is no indication that Margret Atwood had any connection to Mormonism in her life

This is the first I've read anything about a Mormon connection. Margaret Atwood is an uber liberal feminist who has been elevated to near deity status by the liberal arts hoard.

No, you're not the only one. I watched it too. For some reason I have a morbid fascination with the cultural legacy of polygamy (my cultural inheritance). I've tried to dissect what residual effects this family history has had on my life, and they are many and devastating. Because BY was basically a mob boss, that's how he ran his operations, Danita's included. Without a doubt, polygamy as practiced at that time was sexual slavery. The carrot or bait may have been "religion" but the entrapment of victims who were left without recourse or power to escape in many cases was like any other sexual slavery. Leave the women without economic resources and knock her up. Once she's tied to children she loves, what are her opportunities to get out? I found multiple connections to the TV series.

Stupid auto-correct. I meant Danites.

+6.02x10^23

I don't see a connection to Mormonism, but I do see Handmaid's Tale as a pretty obvious knock off of Orwell's 1984.

Mormonism does resemble Handmaid's Tale, yes. Especially the fundamental branch of Mormonism.

After watching the most recent episodes- I strongly hold the opinion that this is reflective of the LDS cult. the marriage ceremony (including veiled brides, witnesses, multiple brides at once, very young girls 15 or under) and the martial bed including the symbols of fertility and hole are very much like Mormon practice and not common in other faiths. Further, as much as LDS people represent standards to others - the reality is the state is highest per capita in porn subscriptions, and very high in rank for plastic surgery, opioid use, antidepressants and Xanax. Looks like perfect LDS marriages but rotten on the inside.

When someone goes through the endowment session in the temple, the man is agreeing to become a god and the woman is actually agreeing to be part of his eternal harem and will be eternally pregnant. You are agreeing with polygamy whether it gets reinstated in this life, or whether you wait for it in the next life. I haven't seen Handmaid's Tale, but from the descriptions it sounds like it closely resembles Mormonism with violence and polygamy.

maybe some exmo is one of the writers, maybe the show called the Path also

I heard that she only used things that were actually practised somewhere or sometime in real life.

"The Handmaid's Tale" is Mike Pence's dream for the USA.


The TV show is set in a not-so-distant future when radiation poisoning (or some other kind of environmental pollutant) has made many people infertile (men & women). The population is shrinking and there is a lot of political unrest. Religious zealots blame the country's problems on 'sin'. Women gradually begin to lose their rights and freedoms (permission from husband to use birth control, no personal bank accounts, revoking passports). This is shown through random flashbacks. People try their best to escape to Canada, where freedom and reason still abound.

In the present time on the show, handmaids (young women) are slaves whose sole purpose is to have a baby for a powerful couple. They have a weird, disturbing sex ritual. The handmaids are who are disobedient are treated brutally, as are any other disobedient citizens.

It's a disturbing, but fascinating, story. I find many parallels to what's going on today with religion and politics. It has motivated me to get my passport updated so I can run if necessary.

I like to think the story could never happen in real life, but I also see so many ways that it could happen gradually and it would be too late to stop it. Kinda like the same way we ended up with a Trumpanzee for president.

C'mon really...you really think this is the VPOTUS' dream for America. You lib's crack me up.

I wouldn't consider myself liberal, but moderate. Not that liberal would necessarily be a bad thing...

However, if equal rights for women and LGBTQ is a liberal idea, then I'm guilty as charged.

I forgot to mention in my above summary of Handmaid's Tale that homosexuality is strongly condemned as sinful. Seems very Pence-like, to me.

Ok fair enough..I jumped to a conclusion that you had liberal leanings since most of those who lean left dislike Pence and of course you indicated that "we ended up with a Trumapanzee for president." My bad.

I don't think that equal rights for women and LGBTQ is a liberal idea..I never said that. I just thought all of the discussion about this movie and your observation that this is what the VP wants for America was a little extreme.

please tell us what a lib is.

Adler took elements from many ideologically oppressive societies. It reminds me more of those countries that practice "sharia law", personally.

Adler also specifically mentions the soviet union as an inspiration as well.

So, its not necessarily "anti-religion" or "anti-man", so much as a warning about what happens when an ideologically radical group gains power.

She could have gone with an extreme atheist group or identitarian group, but going with a religious one allows for the easiest way to narrow in on crimes committed against women in particular, which is a focus of much of her writing and overall interest as a feminist.

I think you mean Atwood.

And yes, I agree with your summation of her writing.

I see the parallels between Handsmaids Tale and Mormonism..... actually Warren the commander reminds me of Jeff Warren(FLDS) himself and his God Squad.
Watching the show is frightening, considering how many ppl still... to this day believe in him wholeheartedly. And how many of them hold honorable seats amoung our government and leaders.

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> reminds me of Jeff Warren(FLDS)


Do you mean Warren Jeffs?