Margaret Atwood: Handmaid's relevance after election

[@greenbean3118]

Such a great interview. The best Margaret Atwood interview I've seen. It's great to see an interviewer who doesn't talk over the guest and takes the time to actually listen to what she has to say before responding. Well done.

[@QwithTomPower]

Thank you GreenBean 31! :)

[@saminafazlani1580]

His face showed that he was having psychotic fits but he controlled it.....

[@cerebralcaustic]

why didn't she write a book set in Iran, rather than in the US?

[@helenespierman151]

@@cerebralcaustic IMO, it would be less about "us."

[@tomfischer491]

I could listen to her talk about anything. she has such a soothing voice. Also she is very intelligent but doesn't talk down to people.

[@renegadedalek5528]

soothing voice? Yes, doesn't talk down to her interviewer? Yes. Intelligent? More than average in the verbal dimension, but very intelligent is overstepping the mark. I'd say she was an upper range midwit, but then I probably am too.

[@Khodam101]

Well said, I feel the same. Love her so much ❤

[@Khodam101]

@tom Fischer Well said, I feel the same. Love her so much ❤

[@nicolenepotgieter8725]

One of the best, easiest to listen to, interviews with Margaret Atwood. I have never listened/watched q on cbc- but will definitely start now!

[@QwithTomPower]

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@whateverdv]

Props to the guy who interviewed Margaret! Great stuff, thanks!

[@tejasnair3399]

ThriftyAF he was awful

[@carolkewley7410]

He was great.

[@user-ld7uj9pv8e]

Such an insightful, gorgeous woman. I read the book in the 80s and experienced chills of recognition. Watching the show now, the story continues to have relevance. Terrifying.

[@teambrad3777]

K 9 she really is beautiful. I believe Merle Streep would be the perfect actress to play her (in her older years) if they made a movie about her life.

[@charleskristiansson1296]

Oh, Tom, thank you so, so much. I so enjoyed this. Just bought The Handmaid's Tale and watching the series. Beautiful interview.

[@user-ld7uj9pv8e]

I remember the Iranian revoulution.... very dramatic curtailing of women's rights. Taken out of jobs, education greatly reduced, health care far less than provided for men etc. And clothed head to toes.

[@mogznwaz]

Yes. People keep making parallels between Gilead and the USA but the reality is that Gilead already exists for many women in the Islamic world but the feminists stay quiet, they prefer to pick the low hanging fruit at home rather then tackle real misogyny.

[@amerie1987]

Do you have any suggestion for books on the Iranian revolution preferably from an unbiased perspective? I would like to read up on it.

[@CathyKitson]

K 9 Any authoritarian regime or dystopia always starts with the rolling back of women's rights.

[@rukhsanakhan5010]

Gilead is like issis religious theocracy , dead bodies everywhere and ridiculous protestations allah akbar , may the Lord open, praise be...

[@dianewalden6127]

I am a gushing fan, so please forgive my following text. I love her work, as a teenager, it terrified me, and simultaneously opened my 14 year old eyes to a truly possible speculative fiction based on historical facts. She would hate the word genius but I think it is definitely deserved. Needless to say I believe her books should be read by many, and our eyes opened just a bit.

[@lemsip207]

I wish I had known about the Handmaid's Tale when it was first published and not years later.

[@renegadedalek5528]

Yes it's a teenaged girl's fantasy of being ravished.

[@RoseStream83]

She’s like a cool grandmother haha

[@mortimersnerd8044]

Thanks for putting this up, been waiting a while for this.

[@QwithTomPower]

Cheers! Thanks for watching!

[@KatZolitaMason]

Great interview with one of my favourite writers - bravo 👏

[@otom3487]

this is probably one of the best interviewers ever!!!!!!!!!

[@danielleone1597]

Great interview. Nice job

[@QwithTomPower]

Thank you!

[@amerie1987]

I see so much of Margaret in Offred, the glimpses of her humor. It is quite smart.

[@kaleflower2319]

Thank you, Margaret Atwood!

[@letiruggieromagne4582]

She is just magnificent.

[@HM-id5fr]

Her voice is so calming

[@jazzkatt1919]

How I adore this woman!

[@jazeolo]

I just love these two together.

[@lavenderbrown3718]

I have one of the originally published "cheesy paperbacks" of this novel... :)

[@jujube3736]

Those cheesy paperbacks are honestly some of my favorite versions of books

[@JBiggsofWSNC]

The deployed lattes would be a great name for a rock band.

[@QwithTomPower]

Agreed! Writing that one down!

[@mirfir]

Thank you

[@heyggirl1]

He was a really good interviewer

[@carolkewley7410]

Cute, too :)

[@hellbenthornball1153]

He was fawning and unctuous, like a teenager reporting in a high school newspaper. Atwood was leagues above him. Frustrating.

[@austntexan]

@@hellbenthornball1153 He's an unread Millennial. They're all like this.

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

Her intelligence is amazing.

[@parsleyrose7778]

Her careful, artistic wisdom reminds me of Paul Simon.

[@my2cents2u]

I'm so glad she left an open end, because I am seriously shipping June and Nick, who will be reunited before the baby is born, and will work together to rescue Hannah.

[@kaigeddes]

Most dystopian literature, "1984", "Brave New World", "Handmaid's Tale", have gotten all of their inspiration from Zamyatin's "We" (1924).

[@jerilynbridges1740]

Kai Geddes No! They got it from the Book “ Just above my head “ by Richard Wright!

[@SammiLill]

not including the rape aspects, I have felt like a handmaid the last 21 years trying to fight for a better life for people with disabilities to get paid employment for us, to get safe places to live for us in Canada, to be treated as equals to abelists in Canada, seeing the handsmaid tale still gives me hope I can try to get things changed.

[@danharris3791]

"A smooth life is not a victorious one." - Paramahansa Yogananda God bless you for your efforts to help ease the burdens that so many carry. ❤️

[@bethwynmalcolm1102]

Yes he did a great job!

[@RoderBrent]

8:25 I love her response when some lady accused her of having a twisted bizarre imagination.

[@grassygnoll3345]

Totally agree with Margaret, if you like TV watch The Singing Detective.

[@QwithTomPower]

Duly noted!

[@stephencolwell6288]

This interview really shows the communication gap between her generation, and the twenty-something one of today. Lucky she was so patient and graceful in interpreting the questions. It started out a little awkward, but I think she made him feel more comfortable toward the middle.

[@ArchToast]

Totalitarianism is indeed coming to the US, as well as to other parts of the world, but it will come from a completely different direction than the one Margaret Atwood and the interviewer are expecting, I'm afraid.

[@paulasanders508]

ArchToast what direction?

[@D4n1t0o]

I didn't personally enjoy how he pried when she clearly wanted to leave things at the end of her last sentence. Seemed a little insensitive. Would've been better to just move onto the next question.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

It’s relevant as hell-Amy form Brooklyn nine nine.

[@aniokay]

She sounds like Meryl Streep

[@muddywitch9016]

Why do we need The Handmaids Tale when we have Isis?

[@jerilynbridges1740]

Muddy Witch Why do we need Isis when we have the Proud Boys!

[@priscillawrites6685]

Vietnam was the first televised war.

[@catsaresocute650]

But I agree more feminists should be pro-capitalism? I get that the insitence that people aren't groups isn't perfect (from feminist perspective) because you argue that you are actually being treated Differently. And there's this wired you only live on your own thing going own that makes you think erm no, no one is that on their own or shouldn't be at least. But in itself the system of capitalism as fee enterprise on free contracts, that's great.

[@alexandram1209]

Dystopian like anointing your own presidential nominee? Hindering free speech? Making everything about race, sexuality, gender and creed? These past 4 years are the closest I’ve ever seen to dystopian, ever want to see

[@JustWhatWatch]

Hey Tom, are you a member of the LBGTQ community?!

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

It's such a hyperbole to compare The Handmaid's Tale to any actual western country. The entertainment industry really has gone off the rails.

[@schoolkenzo2366]

tg

[@helloInternets]

First a tragedy, then a farce.

[@carleedurkee8675]

"but altzo"

[@genellege]

interviewer is so annoying. great answers though

[@SisterPatGoad]

The Handmaids Tail is futureistic ideal, and we are close to livig it when THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT takes Place, a bit yet in OUR future!!

[@SBCBears]

People in the 99th percentile of the worlds wealth pyramid are complaining they're "oppressed". Hey Margaret, why was 50 Shades of Grey a bestseller? And it wasn't men buying the book.

[@mugwump9131]

What point are you trying to make here lmao

[@SBCBears]

@@mugwump9131 It's a poser, isn't it?

[@ClemHem]

"it was the ones who sat on their hands that determined the fate of the election" - a nonsensical statement, unless you could determine how those who didn't vote in the election would actually have voted, if indeed they had participated in the voting. the outcome of the election being actually determined by the tally of votes that were cast, as a matter of fact, without being able to know how the non-voters would have tallied... you have no basis for making a statement like that.

[@jerilynbridges1740]

CitizenClem The votes that were not counted determined the election!

[@nomadicnana5497]

it makes sense that Margaret Atwood would create gilead out of America and Canada would be the good guys, as she is Canadian. OH Canada This scenario is more likely the other way around. you only have treadau ( that young idiotic whippersnapper) , We have Donald Trump (who loves America).

[@jerilynbridges1740]

Nomadic Nana It could have been anywhere but America! Deal with it!

[@Northcountry1926]

LOL … Thank God for Joe

[@Space_Cadet13]

She said stuff lol. Probably because she tried to spread scientology. Ugh....

[@plaguedoctormasque8089]

It was Christians who murdered Congress etc. And ushered in the age of the Handmaids dear. So stfu ty.

[@bigal25938]

LAL. I love liberal conspiracy paranoia.

[@Northcountry1926]

LOL - Bot

[@sallydarley9812]

She sounds Left Wing to me. She should have been born in the USSR or China in 1930 or in North Korea in 2019. She also doesn't sound very intelligent. She was university educated? I bet her father was not a coal miner! She's a rich Marxist. I bet she isn't a good listener also. Left Wing people usually start shouting instead! I have friends who survived Marxism in the twentieth century and THEY can tel the tale! One aunt in Socialist USSR was forced into hard labour for years in Ukraine in 1970s when Pink Floyd and Queen were writing new material. My Chinese friends tell me that their Marxist leader had NO liking for the natural human family of dad, mum and children and that the Communist government in the 1980s took all his family's wealth away. The government just stole it, destroyed it. I am surrounded by Marxist. I was raised an atheist and my school was atheist in Yorkshire, England, UK in 1970s to 1980. There was NO mention of Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ in all the six years I was there. I knew that Jesus is very very important even when I was 5 years old and brought up as an atheist! Jesus was also surrounded by a version of the Left- the pagan Roman Empire. And the remnants of the Jews- they were by that time more pagan than anything, really. He knew that! Why does M. Atwood choose the word God rather than another word for the monster in her book? She says she is not a feminist but??? You HAVE to be an atheist to be a Socialist, anyway. Read 'Socialism Sucks'. A newish book on the scene.

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