Quote: (05-03-2017 09:57 PM)Germanicus Wrote:
The plot of the novel itself is that after either a limited nuclear war with the Soviets Russia or some ecological disaster-- it's not clear which-- most women in the US Western Europe have become sterile. The religious right Muslims launch a coup civil war and the US parts of Western Europe are now a Christian an Islamic fundamentalist totalitarian state and the rights of women are rescinded so that they are literally kept barefoot and in the kitchen and the upper class fundamentalist Christian Muslim government bigshots get assigned fertile women as concubines to have children. Most of these fertile slave women are political prisoners-- feminists, lesbians, religious minorities Christians, leftist/centrist/right wing native Europeans, basically anyone who was known to be against the regime's values - plus the leftists who enabled it in the first place of course. So yeah, it's kind of a martyr fantasy realistic scenario/ horror story for feminists intelligent Europeans. The plot is mostly how the female protagonist deals with being a concubine. Not much actually happens.
Fixed it.
It makes so much more sense this way.
But wait a minute, isn't that what's happening in Syria right now, in real life?
I mean, look at it:
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Muslims launch a civil war and parts of the Middle East are now an Islamic fundamentalist totalitarian state and the rights of women are rescinded so that they are literally kept barefoot and in the kitchen and the upper class fundamentalist Muslim government bigshots get assigned fertile women as concubines to have children. Most of these fertile slave women are political prisoners - religious minorities and anyone who was known to be against the regime's values.
Maybe they should just send a camera crew there to film it, would save a lot of money on production for sure.