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Are The Straights OK?

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Is someone holding these poor souls hostage and forcing them to be together?

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[โ€“] kablez@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I was in high school over 20 years ago they made us read The Handmaids Tale. I laughed thinking that book was so extreme and pessimistic. I'm not laughing anymore.

I read that book after graduating high school in the deep south a decade-ish before you did, and it was so validating to me see that someone else also saw how dangerous Christofascists are. I doubt our school library would have been allowed to carry it, much less assign it as reading.