Welcome to Gilead - the new "lifestyle gateway"

Yes... ‘why are you in feminism?’ didn’t really get the credit it so richly deserves...

Why are you in feminism?

Hahahahahahahahahahhaaaaaaahhahahahah fucking hahahahahaha

Ahhh..may have had too much wine

Maybe some source material; the bible...

I’ll leave it up to you, dear reader, to decide whether I mean Attwood’s source...

Perhaps we could all try reading stuff that is better suited for women than Attwood!

I've got some nice books about knitting? And kittens? Any good?

‘Lifestyle gateway’, the photos and ‘view masterplan’ from the website had my sides splitting...

They must know and be doing it deliberately... I want it to be in earnest though...

Possibly the comedy lacks intersectionality. What does it centre?!

Why are you in feminism?

Lost my cocoa on this

Lolololol

Waddle apparently to find something this specifically funny is

• a lack of general knowledge
• a lack of wider knowledge
• a risk of linking this funny thing to another 'unfunny' thing according to some (aka unattractive lesbian Hannah Gadsby)

I'm looking forward to lass policing the full extent of Mumsnet to remind people to find nothing funny until they've considered the wider context to every word they use!

Have you had a bad day lass ?

It's funny to some people, why would you want to spoil that? Plus what did (the very funny) Hannah Gadsby ever do to you?!

Perhaps we could all try reading stuff that is better suited for women than Attwood!

Ah, I'm starting to understand the 'new world'.

No, you must not find something funny with other people, if you connect 'the thing' with a writer that others did not connect with or like, and if the humourous context may refer to a word that refers to other things outside the the writer who used it in the context you laughed about it in.

If you laughed without considering the wider context of the word that was used before the writer who you liked, and others did, you potentially may have a 'limited cultural life', and therefore, well...

I'm learning that we're even being policed about what we may find funny. Otherwise we're 'culturally limited'!

Can see a whe realm of similarly named gated communties stepford, Oceania etc.

I sense some lip pursing on this thread.

Oh yeah, a proper cat’s bum mouth. With a little pot-stirring on the side.

Fwiw, I got the joke. I thought it was mildly amusing to consider that the next totalitarian regime could rise from a poncy 'lifestyle gateway' in Australia.
I only posted because there did seem to be some confusion as to the origin and application of the word Gilead. Not trying to piss on anyone's chips at all.

Oh dear lass.

Gilead doesn’t have ‘one meaning’ for me. That’s not why it’s funny, it’s not why people think it is funny and the people laughing are not laughing because they think the only meaning of Gilead is that it is the name of the theocracy in the handmaid’s tale.

The relevance of the Hannah Gadsby quote is it was a joke about high art vs comedy...

I sense some lip pursing on this thread. Stop being so FLIPPANT everybody. Feminism is not a fun issue and literature is NOT for laughs! We must all be earnest, learned and wear sensible shoes at all times.

As you were!

Is it gated, this development?

Ah well, at least if it's in Australia they will be sent good weather.

Did you watch the Royal wedding Offred?

Michael Curry's sermon must have been awfully puzzling for you.

To quote Hannah Gadsby; ‘sorry to tell you this... but no-one’s leaving here a better person’

What relevance does a not particularly funny stand up comedian have to anything on here? .That is who I'm thinking of ? The comedian with the usp of being an unattractive lesbian?. (And before you get on your high horse about that she makes plenty of mileage about it in her own material)

It really is your problem that Gilead only has one meaning for you. Perhaps you could try reading the Marilyn Robinson novel- most people find it quite uplifting.

Is there a BALM?

Offred

I did also smile at the poster that said that Atwood's novel was hardly going to be set in "The lake of fire"...

I believe it is from the name of the farmland which has been purchased for development TBH. It’s still funny though.

Ha ha, regardless of other "Gileads" the one at the forefront of popular imagination at the moment is the setting of Attwood's book, now TV series. Presumably they are watching it in Australia too. It's quite bonkers that no one would spot this and veto the name. It reminds me of that toddler bed called the "Lolita" that was sold by Woolworths a few years back.

I would never move to Gilead :-)