Welcome to Gilead - the new "lifestyle gateway"

[sleepingdragons]

From [[https://communities.lendlease.com/gilead/
this website]]:

Welcome to Gilead – Macarthur’s new lifestyle gateway

A new master planned community from Australia’s premier award winning developer.

Set beside the Nepean River, Gilead will be a community surrounded by natural bushland and only 10 minutes from the urban hubs of Campbelltown and Camden.

Our residents will enjoy the beauty and convenience of beaches, adventures, hikes, walks and foodie hubs, at their doorstep.

Gilead is coming in early 2018.

WTF? Have these people never heard of Google? Or books/TV?

What's a "lifestyle gateway" anyway?

Praise fucking be.

That’s a no thanks from me.

Someone didn't run this past a focus group.

Is this meant to be ironic?

Hilarious!

Really?

Why is this in Feminism?

Why are you in feminism?

There's quite a few places called Gilead, it being a region in Jordan and having been a region in Jordan for a good few thousand years before Margaret Atwood came along.

Because it references a novel that could be considered a seminal feminist work, which is now even better known due to the critically acclaimed TV adaptation.

Because, Snappity, sometimes we need a laugh!

(And PS Gilead-themes are quite relevant in feminism. Did you not know? Margaret Attwood's quite a good read )

It is quite funny.

I needed this today lol

Surely now you've been a while Snappity , you know we like a laugh now and then.

Another thing that seems to have got lost along the way - humour is a human emotion, it helps us, whatever political, ideological lane we're in.

I wonder sometimes whether that's what's got lost along the way, which is why debate is so difficult. Those of us who've been here on Mumsnet for a looong time know how important it is (not going to get out the bat photo!)

Though Brian from Hull may want to throw his yoni in the ring for a bit of light relief! (Maybe on the vagina thread!)

Don't think Snappity likes humor very much.

Just so long as no one brings out TWC. Not even the trolls deserve that!

Tbf Gilead is in the bible and was the name of part of what is now Jordan. I am sure I heard the preacher at Harry and Megan mention Gilead but no one else picked up on it so I wondered if I imagined it.

Gilead is also the name of a Marilynn Robinson book about a dying pastor

The pastor at the Royal Wedding also spoke about it, I think in the Bible it has a really positive association just not in Handmaids Tale

Took me too long to type!

Xpost with moss

Yes he did!

and some of us are just having a chuckle! Regardless of etymology, history, etc.

Let us laugh!

A little?

Or is FWR meant to be stern faces, hard places all the time?

Does it have a dress code?

Gilead is also the name of a Marilynn Robinson book about a dying pastor

The pastor at the Royal Wedding also spoke about it, I think in the Bible it has a really positive association just not in Handmaids Tale

Tbh to only connect Gilead with The Handmaid's Tale shows a bit of a lack of general knowledge

Why is this in Feminism?

Erm, because last time I looked, this is Feminist chat, no?

I'm having a chat, with feminists, about a feminist book, indirectly.

Does it have a dress code?

I would expect so. All the best "master planned" communities do, surely?!