I imagine it’s “poverty” or “wartime” food. Think stews, soups, casseroles, etc. stuff that takes time, water, salt, fat, and a flexible assortment of meat and vegetables.
Serena Joy isn't stupid enough to be Michelle Duggar. She's Mary Pride:
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Home-Beyond-Feminism-Reality/dp/1453699309
Note that the book came out the same year as The Handmaid's Tale.
Upper glass Gileadean girls are at best learning domestic arts as a kind of faux nostalgia. Book-June describes a handmade rug in her room:
>There's a rug on the floor, oval, of braided rags. This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values.
If you go back far enough in history, upper-class wealthy women learned spinning, sewing, and other kinds of needlework as a way to demonstrate their skills and create luxury goods. A tapestry made by the queen might end up being a diplomatic gift to a neighboring kingdom. Or a set of hand-embroidered dresses could be part of the wealth a woman brought to her marriage.
If you like geeking out on women's history and the textile arts, I highly recommend the book Woman's Work: The First 20,000 Years, Women, Cloth and Society In Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber.
Oh man, I pre-ordered it the day it was announced. Within seconds, I think. Even the Atwood books I haven't been particularly fond of, the prose is always so wonderful I don't care. I'm sure this will be more of the same. She is doing a small tour to promote the book as well.
Here's the Amazon link. But always remember to support your local independent bookstore. :)
I have very curly, thick, long hair. I bought argan magic curl cream for $5 on a whim at Marshall’s and I LOVE IT. I gave up on curl creams a long time ago but idk, had a gut feeling and bought it. Not crunchy, greasy, and doesn’t like, flake off. And it smells pleasant without being overpowering. I’ve been so happy with it I’ve been pitching it to anyone who will listen like I have a promo code.
I think it's more that type, level and duration of radiation exposure can result in different effects, and also intersect with other factors. The situation in Chernobyl is totally different from Japan.
Doctors have reported large increases in birth abnormalities and chronic illnesses in areas around Chernobyl: those people aren't faking it for sympathy. The radiation at Chernobyl was 400 times that at Hiroshima due to the amount of nuclear fuel, the efficiency of the reaction, and the fact that it was a ground-level not mid-air explosion. Most importantly, Chernobyl remains contaminated and people have continued living long-term in unsafe areas, eating and drinking contaminated produce and water, meaning subsequent generations also have radiation exposure in utero and as infants. This means that birth defects and illnesses could be due to this rather than genetically transmitted - in the Japanese studies the children of survivors were not directly exposed themselves.
In the areas around Chernobyl there have been rises in fetal alcohol syndrome, malnutrition and poverty, all of which cause similar problems. However, studies into Chernobyl have also been impaired by the large amount of political arse-covering going on, and vested economic interests in proclaiming the safety of nuclear fuel. And ultimately those people have suffered terribly as a result of the explosion, whether directly through radiation or through its wider socio-economic impact.
Personally I'm opposed to nuclear weapons and fuel, so certainly don't want to minimise their effects or horrors. I just think it's interesting to try to understand the real situation. Plus, 'radiation stigma' is a documented phenomeon that has caused further harm to victims of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, so appreciating that and sticking to the facts is important for that reason too. https://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/25/world/iyw-chernobyl-children/index.html
Considering prior they talked about other “old wives tales” like spicy foods, it’s not a stretch to believe that Serena really believes this would help.
AND she wanted to put June in her place — and Fred did too for his own reasons (separate from Serena... she had no idea that scene in his office between them happened).
However, all that said, look up sex inducing labor on the good old internet and a web MD article that comes up right near the top talks about the prostaglandins in sperm (to soften Cervix) most. It doesn’t even mention the woman orgasming.
Im not at all arguing your point... I actually thought myself that I had heard/read that the pregnant woman having an orgasm was part of what helped move things along for sex to induce labor.
But It’s easy to make the argument that Serena didn’t need to believe that or know it for the scene to be believable. That combined with her thinking and believing of old wives tales, her need to punish June, and the fact that lots of people, apparently including doctors even today, emphasis the sperm as the culprit more than anything else.
In a male dominated world, why wouldn’t that belief continue to be widely held?
Here I think
Actually, it is not always super obvious: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/shaken-baby-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20366619
“You may not see any signs of physical injury to the child's outer body. Sometimes, the face is bruised. Injuries that might not be immediately seen include bleeding in the brain and eyes, spinal cord damage, and fractures of the ribs, skull, legs and other bones. Many children with shaken baby syndrome show signs and symptoms of prior child abuse.
In mild cases of shaken baby syndrome, a child may appear normal after being shaken, but over time he or she may develop health or behavioral problems.”
Are you in the US? If so, the easiest thing is to search long red dresses in Amazon. Tons of options.
So I'm pretty sure this is a /u/wildvi0let pattern that they posted on the sub multiple times from their site, where it's a name your price transaction: https://gumroad.com/l/handmaids-tale
Here's an post from them offering the original and a mini version. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrossStitch/comments/8ebf6w/fo_mini_the_handmaids_tale/
Please support our subredditors. I don't know what's going on with the Etsy shop but WildViolet put this out over a year ago.
Might be common knowledge amongst doulas, midwives and other medical professionals but I literally just read an article that emphasized the sperm more than anything else (in regards to sex encouraging labor). See my reply below as well.
I’m not arguing that you’re wrong, just that it’s obviously common to believe it’s just/mostly the sperm that does it... and/or that sperm alone is helpful (with or without the pregnant woman having an orgasm).
Try a smartDNS provider, seems to be a better option than a lot of the more popular/reputable VPNs which Hulu seems to catch and block right away.
After some googling it looks like Blockless might be a good smartDNS provider option that hasn't been blocked by Hulu yet. I haven't tried personally though.Blockless review
ExpressVPN. You have to pay but i find it's worth it. They also do a free trial. Also, I'm pretty sure i paid for one month for ExpressVPN and its only charged me once. I watch everything on
It’s been written! Pretty good read too…. The book is called The Power.
Sure, actually I'd recommend 2 books. One from the foremost modern authority on cult mind control, Steven Hassan. The other from a former mormon who applies hassans model to Mormonism specifically and does so brilliantly. All high control structures, whether government, religion, business, and even down to abusive relationships between individuals use the same psychological tools in order to informed their control. It's very interesting, because it's not like most of them studied it, it seems to be ingrained in human nature. Psychology have given these tools names, love bombing, mystical manipulation, blame shifting...etc. we almost always see them in some form when undue influence is at work.
I haven't been part of a cult - but I just wanted to drop a book rec - Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell was a really good read.
Episode 4 has just been re-added.
Had some hiccups with it but, it is on there and ready to be heard.
I’ll do you one better: June attempts to kill Fred (or succeeds? That’s kind of far fetched though) and goes away to prison for 25 to life. Fred gets painted a victim and gets off free. CC: Debbie Peagler
I think your timing rocks!
This is $3.98 for the entire series over on Amazon which looks like a temporary sale
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0053GI832/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
I found it via Google search on the name you gave me, although Google claims it's called the skinjacker series--which is hopefully the same thing based on the price.
technically can't buy anything until my girlfriend wakes up in the morning. House rules say no purchases of ebooks over a dollar without that kind of conversation, because without that kind of conversation, I would probably have a much larger ebook collection with a much larger collection agency letter collection;-)
In other words, pay the bills first!
Your lack of a lack of electricity will thank me for bringing it up;-)
These are clear stamps, so you need an acrylic block, as well as ink, of course.
I recently read When She Woke and it’s similarly dystopian and is themed around abortion. The main character is dyed red because she “killed someone” and they dye people based on the crimes they commit.
Personally I thought it was a bit of a let-down because it was different from what I expected it to be, but you might wanna check it out! It just didn’t go into the lore of the society quite enough for me to enjoy it. It focused more on this one woman’s particular story, but if that sounds good it’ll probably be a good read for you!
Change your IP to your home locality (so it synchs with how Hulu knows you). HideMyAss is super easy but there are a ton of others services that can change your IP. Pay the $5.00 or whatever - it's cheap. And then login to Hulu as if you are home.
I had to do this last year from Canada.
Edit: Or just torrent but for some reason my midlife brain gets weirded out with those platforms.
Edit II: You can't be on Wifi. That will localize you. Personal hotspot instead.
Edit III: As far as I can figure out this is NOT illegal, particularly if you have a Hulu account. It's just absurd that they don't have a way for subscribers to watch out of the country.
HideMyAss and plenty of others will give you many choices that can be as specific as a zip code or as broad as a state... not sure what the algorithm is, but the point is to be as close to home as possible.
Think of the real-world equivalent - TheCall. Lou Engle never said he was a Dominionist; it wasn;t clear in the book Elijah's Revolution... which was released in the late 90s.. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elijahs-Revolution-Passion-Committment-Radical/dp/0768420571
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I posted this for someone else too (I hope it worked for her), but you can also use a VPN service to fool Hulu into believing you are in the US. The app ExpressVPN gives you a free trial period for a week and you can select your location as being in the US and then you can watch anything available through Hulu.
Agreed! u/AliceThrewtheGlass I got the mini board book version of the book along with a tin of cookies from a teacher, which I thought was a lovely gift :)
Have a look at Dominion Theology - and all the hardliners who ranted against the New Age Movement..
Think westboro Baptist Church, think people like John MacArthur, David Jeremiah etc.
Good sourcebook is Power Religion - the Selling out of the Evangelical Church - released in 1995 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Religion-Selling-Evangelical-Church/dp/0802467741 - it tried to warn the American church about going too political.. one watning from J I Packer was that if you lose the barriers between church and state - you get ayatollahs. Which is what they are trying with Mike Pence and Steve Bannon.
Hardline extreme literalists will often downsize grace and go very legalistic - which ties in with a greater emphasis on Old Testament praxis.
It's the same as my side of the Pond - where the warning was always "When fascism returns, it'll be wearing a Union Jack. Cue Farage and Rees-Mogg from stage right...