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Is this book very "progressive", anti-conservative, perhaps anti-Christian? Many reviews make me concerned, for example with all the comparisons with "the handmaid's tale"...
Shelley Frier List The book is anti-progressive, where "progressive" refers to latte-sipping, organic-buying, judgmental mothers who think they're the be-all of motherho…moreThe book is anti-progressive, where "progressive" refers to latte-sipping, organic-buying, judgmental mothers who think they're the be-all of motherhood. (Which obviously doesn't define actual progressives, just a caricature of them.) I imagine it to be the fantasy of some mom who maybe spanked her kid or let them I dunno watch more than an hour of TV and got excoriated for it.(less)
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