Delusions of Gilead
<p>Inlate June, 30 women in long red cloaks and white bonnets <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/339690-women-stage-handmaids-tale-inspired-protest-outside-capitol" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">marched in Washington, DC</a> to protest the Republican-sponsored health care bill that would cut funding to Planned Parenthood, the birth control and abortion provider. The eye-catching costumes were a reference to the recent television series <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em>, set in a future where America has become an ultra-patriarchal theocracy called Gilead and where such outfits are worn by “Handmaids,” <em>de facto </em>breeder slaves for the ruling class. Such protests had multiplied even before the show aired; in late May, the website <em>Mashable </em><a href="http://mashable.com/2017/05/28/handmaids-tale-protests-costumes/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#exxOCP2kPiqy" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">praised</a> Handmaid costumes as “the most powerful meme of the [anti-Trump] resistance.”</p>
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