And yet you don't promote that on your site, Jim Lad!

"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. " Diane Easby

Diane:

I read the whole damn thread, I have read and understood perfectly well the The Handmaid's Tale, (for one thing, the heroine had no options as she was fertile and therefore forced to be a Handmaid), and it has become perfectly apparent to me that it is not possible for me to ask you a question or ask that you clarify or present a legitimate opinion that is not specifically an echo of your very narrow own without you losing your wig. Allergic to bees, are you? Well and good. Conversing with you is not productive nor is it satisfying, either intellectually or socially or in any other fashion. Pleas do ignore my posts from now on, as I certainly won't bother with yours.