as in subjection
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The Handmaid's Tale spared no sensitivities when diving into the cruelest treatment people like June, and even Lydia, experience at the hands of a totalitarian system bent on the total subjection of women.
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As the man brawls with his in-laws, the boy is caught between two worlds, of male rage and female subjection.
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And those norms can change quickly, with much of society managing to adapt to a prolonged state of unfreedom.
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But the reality is that car dependence entrenches debt, ill health, and vulnerability—forms of unfreedom smuggled in under the name of freedom.
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Its language about seeking opportunity rather than security, taking calculated risks, building, falling, succeeding, and refusing to trade dignity for dependence captured, almost perfectly, how my father thought about America.
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The Eola celebration was capped by a reenactment of the signing of the Declaration of In dependence.
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“Heteronomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heteronomy. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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