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@newstephie On the other hand, this is still better than putting brain dead men in charge of the country.

@newstephie permissions are needed for organ donation, but this is fine...

@newstephie in retrospect, the handmaid’s tale will look like a documentary

@newstephie In fairness, we seem to keep brain-dead men alive and put them in positions of political power.

@newstephie
Straight out of Dune. Axlotl tanks were used by the Bene Tleilax to reproduce human beings. The tanks were brain-dead women on life support. They also used them to produce synthetic melange (the spice normally produced by the sand worms of Dune).

@newstephie brave new world

@newstephie what an abomination!

@newstephie, this is inconceivable!

But it's similar to the plot of this new Brazilian sci-fi book, written by a woman: Ciborgues Rebeldes Sonham com a Morte, by Carol Façanha.
We talked briefly last Sunday, the last day of the X (10th) Odisseia de Literatura Fantástica.

https://www.amazon.com.br/Ciborgues-rebeldes-sonham-com-morte/dp/6501193575

From https://www.miradajanela.com/2024/11/vencedora-do-premio-voz-assina-contrato.html, translated to English:

Rebel Cyborgs Dream of Death is about a world not very different from the one we live in today. In Ostra Luz, after a mysterious blackout, a new hero emerges on the political scene. But there is something sinister that the Major hides in his tower, something that not even his fleet of aerial boats can stop. These cyborgs are nothing more than women. Women that the Major and so many other men keep under their control. When they don't want to let a woman go free, there is an even crueller fate than feminicide: their brains are extracted and placed in robots. They say these cyborgs become their property. But you have no idea what not one but three angry cyborgs can do to the man who dared to braid them in another kind of prison.

The author reveals that “Working so closely with the topic of female silencing, I think there would be no better way for "Rebel a Dream of Death” being born than winning the Voz Award.

Carol Façanha has a PhD in English-language literature from UERJ, award-winning writer, and bestseller on Amazon. She was nominated for 7 literary awards, winning two. The first, the Prêmio Le Blanc, for his debut novel, the cyberpunk dystopia Não Esqueça (Do Not Forget), and the second, the Prêmio Voz, for feminist dystopia Ciborgues Rebeldes Sonham Com a Morte. She also developed her own narrative structure, Da Vítima ao Monstro (From Victim to Monster), which analyzes female characters in a context of violence.

@newstephie What the actual fuck

@newstephie For fuck’s fucking sake who the hell are these fucking monsters?

[Apologies for using the word fuck so many fucking times]

@starlily @PaulNickson @newstephie https://mastodon.social/@DanadasGrau/113607046854060355

@PaulNickson @newstephie I suppose it would work like this: Incel goes to a clinic, watch some porn, jerk off into a cup, then the jism is syringed into a braindead vegetable wife. The only type of woman who can tolerate that kinda offensive fuckwit.

@newstephie a few days ago i heard a guy on a call-in podcast say children in foster care could be sold to other countries, or to corporations to be trained to work there.

This was never about abortion. It was always bodily autonomy, and a bottomless pit of misogyny.

@newstephie

"She also says that male bodies could potentially be adapted to give birth, 'thereby circumventing some potential feminist objections'."

Whelp, looks like they've covered all the bases.

@newstephie Origin story of Bene Tlielax in the Dune universe.

And now that replies have loaded, I see that a lot of people know about Herbert's contributions to the design of the Torment Nexus.

@newstephie this association should not apologise, it should self-destruct

@newstephie What! The! FUCK!??!?

@newstephie For keeping Brain Dead Women Alive to be human incubators I can see MAGA Men and Joe Rogan Podcast fans playing a lottery to seize one of the BD women to inject their Satanic Seeds into

@newstephie What. The. Ever. Living. Er, um, dead... F.

That's how sick and twisted those creeps are! And they think any woman in the world would want to date or marry them? Are they kidding?!

Heh. I wrote a blog post:

"Response to the Undeserving"

https://justrosy3.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/response-to-the-undeserving/

@newstephie

This is nauseating on so many different levels.

@newstephie just holy… holy shit

@newstephie@mastodon.social Well, if we're already using brain dead people to write Telegraph articles...

@newstephie Just use a web search engine for 'Y chromosome disappearing' - might cheer you up.

@newstephie The Torygraph is plundering @cstross book plots for ideas now.

@newstephie....

AFTER HAVING GIVEN PRIOR CONSENT

Sorry but this is straight up misinformation to leave that out. Enough to be outraged about, no need for misinformation

@newstephie The only part of that that makes any sense at all is the phrase "brain dead", and the fact that the article appears in the Telegraph, as the phrase is such an accurate description of its "journalists" (I use the word loosely) and its readers (again, loosely)

@newstephie Wow, this is exactly how the Ghola cloning program started in Dune. How ghoulish and misogynist can you get?

@newstephie Jesus Fuck! That's dystopian.

The Telegraph didn't have much more info in the article so I stumbled around until I found this one. Gives a bit more info which includes the wonderful little tidbit that "At first, The Colombian Medical College defended the article referencing the paper, saying that it was not 'representative' of its own views."

So... they didn't even apologize right away. They needed pressure.

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/health/a42773281/brain-stem-dead-women-surrogates-backlash/