Work towards peace, prepare for the inevitable.
Ladies, it’s time to start arming yourselves. Anti-Tank Guided Missiles are a good place to start.
Drones with hand grenades seem surprisingly effective in Ukraine.
Not well. Just like today, a lot of people support their own oppression.
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Any group that isn’t “knuckle dragging baboons for trump, or the insanely wealthy for trump”.
To answer the title: probably pretty poorly for them because it would solve nothing and making dying a lot more common, but at least that whole society isn’t really pitiable.
It’s just not logistically possible to arm a specific demographics without creating opposition forces. I’m sure the author would have thought of that solution if it made any sense at all.
The difference is that one side is already armed, and police have no interest in preventing them from being armed.
People that act tough and hard are a lot less belligerent when they know that their victim is armed and prepared to fight.
That’s demonstrably not true. There have been plenty of wars of aggression against well armed enemies.
Bank robbers go into places knowing there are armed guards.
People pick fights with bouncers at bars all the time.
Look at the gunfight at the OK Corral. Both sides knew that the other was full of well trained combatants.
Wars of aggression are declared by people that have no direct skin in the game. If Putin had to be on the front lines, leading the very first charges into Ukraine, do you think he would have done it?
Drunk people pick fights with bouncers. Very, very few sober people do.
The fight at the OK Corral was an ambush by the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday; it was anything but a fair fight. And I wouldn’t call the Clanton and McLaury bros. “trained combatants”; none of them had any kind of military or law enforcement experience, while all of the ambushers had been in lawmen or in the military.
The US should have been arming and training the women of Afghanistan, not the men.
Seems like a pretty obvious answer to the cult of self interest, no?
Holy shit, I love this. Did you make this?
It’s an interesting thought experiment and it touches on why I could never get into the Handmaid’s Tale - I found the scenario implausible. The people who own guns (and there are quite a few) are simply going to let their wives, sisters and daughters become property?
Atwood, the original author, was meticulous in documenting all the events in the handmaids tale as 1:1 events reported in real life, but just transposed to the United States.
None of it is entirely fiction.
Yes, I am aware of the events that inspired Atwood: Ceaușescu’s Romania, polygamous fundamentalist Mormon sects, the treatment of women as property in 3rd world countries, etc.
It’s the actual “a group of old testament loving christians managed to topple the US government and turn 50% of its former citizens into subjects with absolutely no rights what so ever” part of the Handmaid’s Tale that I find implausible.
some may argue we have a version of that today. none of my female friends or family from abroad can come and visit right now because they are of child bearing age.
Yes?
Do you think the patriarchy worked differently when the weapon of choice was a spear?
The point is always power and control.
Don’t know about the patriarchy… but in the use of weapons, yes things have changed since the weapon of choice was a spear. With melee weapons, a man has a huge advantage over a woman due to their size and strength. Guns are a great equalizer. With a little bit of training, any woman with a gun is no longer at a a disadvantage in a fight against a man.
In the past 20+ years, approximately 2 million to 3 million soldiers served in the Global War on Terror. Approximately 10% to 20% of those soldiers were women and all of them were trained in the use of fire arms. Which leads back to my original statement regarding my thoughts on the founding of Gilead: I find it implausible. Are all of these women going to just docilely submit to become property?
I’m not sure how you think the patriarchy is enforced, but the answer is no, they won’t, and they’ll be oppressed with violence for resisting the people with more guns and soldiers.
Which is part of the story. “The War” and “The Crusade” are how Gilead refers to the ongoing civil war that formed the state, where, among other things, civil rights and the Constitution were abolished.
So, if you want to know why armed women didn’t turn the tide?
Plenty of them joined Gilead, for one thing, and the took the others’ guns and killed the ones who resisted.
What do you think is happening in the US right now?
What do they think it used to be like, and why…
That Roe v. Wade was over ruled for being poorly argued, as Ruth Bader Ginsberg predicted? Thus allowing states (thus the people of each state) to decide on the issue of abortion? Something that was denied to them in 1973?
But now… Republicans are finding out that many of their constituents are not nearly as pro-life (or anti-choice) as they thought. I believe this fall they will pay quite dearly for their over reach.
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