First of all, this is MARGARET ATWOOD, why aren't there more views and 👍?? Second, the 2nd season of The Handmaid's Tale..omg!! But most importantly of all, yes it would be nice to live in a time when we don't need a "special" day to recognize women...
Well contextualized and said, as always Ms. Atwood. We are so lucky to count you among our greatest Canadians. I've read your books from adolescence onward and always guided by your sense of fairness and careful hope. I too have been impressed by the enormous and organized protestations of Americans since November 2016.
I am using this speech for a class analysis and couldn’t find the transcript anywhere so I wrote it out myself! Here it is in case it can be helpful to anyone else! Also, side note, I love Margaret Atwood and would recommend people read her ‘Oryx and Crake’ trilogy as it brings up great concepts surrounding the divide between STEM and Humanities! I’m from the cold place to the north, and i want you to know that you are all very welcome. we will have a nice hot cup of tea and a mattress in the church basement whenever you feel compelled to flee across the border. but right now I hope you stay because we have been very impressed looking through the one-way mirror, the one where we can see you but you can’t see us, we have been very impressed by the way American people have mobilized and pushed back. it’s been quite encouraging, i remember when the election first happened there were a lot of young people in tears because this had never happened to them before, they had never seen things go backwards in this way before, but Americans across the country have pulled themselves together on many different fronts, not just women, but those extremely impressive students who are working for better fair gun laws and also the people who are emphasizing the importance of voting. getting young people to vote, dont just sit on your hands next time. so I am supporting the Canadian women’s foundation and especially the Me Too, the new thing, and the co-founder of that is here with us today her name is Ashley Jin-Yi, these are young women doing this, by young I mean younger than me, they’re not 15 but they’re younger than me, and they have a lot of energy and they have thought things through and they are building what we hope will be a structural improvement and I’m very happy to be supporting them. I’m also deeply honored to be included in a group of such powerful and accomplished women, how different the world is today from the way it was during my adolescence in the 50s when if you were a powerful professional women you’re either a bitch or a freak. Or in the early 70s when you were lucky if you were a token, and how interesting it would be if no one saw the need to have a special event for women because women had become simply an accepted and equal part of society. But we are very far from that moment, right now it is both the best of times and the worst of times for women. Women have made themselves vigorously heard in the last three years, not only in the US but in many other countries. I think of Latin America and the NiUnaMenos (NUM) movement of Ireland, of Croatia, of Poland, and so many more. But also we have not seen such ablation pushback against women for a very long time. Some women are fighting for rights they’ve never had but others are fighting the threatened removal of such rights. Now is not the time to take anything for granted. The acclaimed MGM Hulu Handmaid’s Tale television series is about to launch its second season, just you wait. And the fact that the first season was such an international success has a lot to do with the precarious position that women feel they are in. Even women in countries that claim to be democracies, the constant crew filming the first season woke up on November 9th 2016 and realized they were now in a different story. It wasn’t the script that had changed, it was the frame. It was no longer a story about something that wouldn’t happen, it had become a story already in process. That is why the iconic red costume with the white hat has become an immediately recognizable protest symbol around the world. It’s a little too real. Who would have thought in 1985 when the book was first published that we would find ourselves in this difficult moment three decades later. Not me. I was drawing on the past. Everything I put in had been done to women, sometime, somewhere. I was not wishing to predict the future. But at the end of the book, in the historical notes, we learn that the repressive regime of The Handmaids Tale did not last. There was a resistance, it was ultimately successful, because people did retain in their hearts the idea of what a free and fair society, a society rooted in truth and justice ought to be like. Let us hope that this part of my fictional future does come true. Thank you very much.
Thank you Dr(?) Margaret Atwood. You've influenced so many of us by your prolific writing. And thank you for acknowledging progressive women, men, and those who are transitioning who are taking part in this global change internationally and the pushback they are facing and fighting against.
Did you know yelets is actually latin for victory? I'm sure you didn't know that Margaret Atwood. I bet you can't even tell a steamed dace from a fried yelets.
First of all, this is MARGARET ATWOOD, why aren't there more views and 👍?? Second, the 2nd season of The Handmaid's Tale..omg!! But most importantly of all, yes it would be nice to live in a time when we don't need a "special" day to recognize women...
Well contextualized and said, as always Ms. Atwood. We are so lucky to count you among our greatest Canadians. I've read your books from adolescence onward and always guided by your sense of fairness and careful hope. I too have been impressed by the enormous and organized protestations of Americans since November 2016.
i loved her book 'the handmaiden's tale' and am looking forward to reading her other works. what a wonderful and well-spoken human being
I am using this speech for a class analysis and couldn’t find the transcript anywhere so I wrote it out myself! Here it is in case it can be helpful to anyone else! Also, side note, I love Margaret Atwood and would recommend people read her ‘Oryx and Crake’ trilogy as it brings up great concepts surrounding the divide between STEM and Humanities!
I’m from the cold place to the north, and i want you to know that you are all very welcome. we will have a nice hot cup of tea and a mattress in the church basement whenever you feel compelled to flee across the border. but right now I hope you stay because we have been very impressed looking through the one-way mirror, the one where we can see you but you can’t see us, we have been very impressed by the way American people have mobilized and pushed back. it’s been quite encouraging, i remember when the election first happened there were a lot of young people in tears because this had never happened to them before, they had never seen things go backwards in this way before, but Americans across the country have pulled themselves together on many different fronts, not just women, but those extremely impressive students who are working for better fair gun laws and also the people who are emphasizing the importance of voting. getting young people to vote, dont just sit on your hands next time. so I am supporting the Canadian women’s foundation and especially the Me Too, the new thing, and the co-founder of that is here with us today her name is Ashley Jin-Yi, these are young women doing this, by young I mean younger than me, they’re not 15 but they’re younger than me, and they have a lot of energy and they have thought things through and they are building what we hope will be a structural improvement and I’m very happy to be supporting them. I’m also deeply honored to be included in a group of such powerful and accomplished women, how different the world is today from the way it was during my adolescence in the 50s when if you were a powerful professional women you’re either a bitch or a freak. Or in the early 70s when you were lucky if you were a token, and how interesting it would be if no one saw the need to have a special event for women because women had become simply an accepted and equal part of society. But we are very far from that moment, right now it is both the best of times and the worst of times for women. Women have made themselves vigorously heard in the last three years, not only in the US but in many other countries. I think of Latin America and the NiUnaMenos (NUM) movement of Ireland, of Croatia, of Poland, and so many more. But also we have not seen such ablation pushback against women for a very long time. Some women are fighting for rights they’ve never had but others are fighting the threatened removal of such rights. Now is not the time to take anything for granted. The acclaimed MGM Hulu Handmaid’s Tale television series is about to launch its second season, just you wait. And the fact that the first season was such an international success has a lot to do with the precarious position that women feel they are in. Even women in countries that claim to be democracies, the constant crew filming the first season woke up on November 9th 2016 and realized they were now in a different story. It wasn’t the script that had changed, it was the frame. It was no longer a story about something that wouldn’t happen, it had become a story already in process. That is why the iconic red costume with the white hat has become an immediately recognizable protest symbol around the world. It’s a little too real. Who would have thought in 1985 when the book was first published that we would find ourselves in this difficult moment three decades later. Not me. I was drawing on the past. Everything I put in had been done to women, sometime, somewhere. I was not wishing to predict the future. But at the end of the book, in the historical notes, we learn that the repressive regime of The Handmaids Tale did not last. There was a resistance, it was ultimately successful, because people did retain in their hearts the idea of what a free and fair society, a society rooted in truth and justice ought to be like. Let us hope that this part of my fictional future does come true. Thank you very much.
Amazing woman. It's so great she mentioned the #UnaMenos movement. Thanks for uploading!
Thank you Dr(?) Margaret Atwood. You've influenced so many of us by your prolific writing. And thank you for acknowledging progressive women, men, and those who are transitioning who are taking part in this global change internationally and the pushback they are facing and fighting against.
Thank you, Margaret Atwood, of bringing up international relations between women. We, as a humanity, have so many conversations to be had.
I wish I could move to Canada or another place!
Did you know yelets is actually latin for victory? I'm sure you didn't know that Margaret Atwood. I bet you can't even tell a steamed dace from a fried yelets.
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The fact that so few women have watched this or care about the BS these feminists are peddling gives me hope for the future of patriarchy!
ratio+lack of puss