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No hot Halloween Handmaids for you

23 September 2018

4:32 PM

23 September 2018

4:32 PM

You all know of course by now that you can’t appropriate other cultures’ artefacts, but did you know you also can’t appropriate wokeness?

It turns out maybe oppression isn’t sexy after all.

Online retailer Yandy listed a “Brave Red Maiden” Halloween costume for nearly $65, referencing the garb women forced into surrogacy wear in Hulu’s series “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The

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