Wasp/hornet/bee or whatever you're calling yourself:

Let me put this simply.
(I do so get incredibly bored with these threads where people leap in at some mid point without a clue of what's gone before nor of the purpose) . . .

Dunno what 'sexualised stage productions' you're on about but I was talking about The Pussycat Dolls (even though I didn't see them because I was watching BBC2 at the time but I did see Madge at the end).

Dave asked the sad old gits who were hanging around at that time of night to consider what that were actually doing . . . and got a string of predictable replies.

The Handmaid's Tale isn't about religion. That is to misunderstand completely the nature of the dystopian subjugation it represents. Women have had every feminist aim so far achieved snatched away thus the heroine has no option left but to become a 'handmaid'. And this is what far too many 'men' and, frighteningly, a fair number of blinkered, what can I call them? 'female persons' think women should be, here in the 'real' world.

Bike/ on/ sunshine/ get /your

Oh and Dave, Childe Rowland isn't just a Stephen King adaptation, it's Dr Who and Camelot as well. Gilead, unsurprisingly, is whiteness in Gaelic. Not so very subtle. Especially when it's a white sheet with eyeslits.