Thanks for offering pointless background information as an "objection", a background that is irrelevant to the book's and movie's hobegoblinization of white-bred religious America, and one that is is obviously obsessed with male patriarchy, white female feminism, etc. It's origins, in the era of the culture left's wild reaction to election of Reagan and fear of the then newly empowered religious right are dystopian drivel. Atwood's view of the US and social culture is stereotypical left: fear of those American repressive puritans (e.g. Republic of Gilead), fear of Christian theocracy, fear of male led nuclear families. In other words, all Atwood did was use the mythology of the liberal era and fear of 1980s politics to create her oppressive religious government.
As dystopian predictive literature, its a hot mess. In reality, the only totalitarian and monolithic theocracies to really fear have arisen in Islam, the only social systems of brutalization of females as a virtue is Muslim. The social systems that have rewarded and punished women based on birth control (or pregnancy) have been communist (China, Romania, etc.).
The Handmaidens Tale, like the later movie "V" for Vendetta, are lousy dystopian depictions because they ignore the ACTUAL and HISTORICAL roots and trends of social systems, and choose to pander to the infantile liberal fears of their creators.
As I said - 1984 and Brave New World were both examples of great dystopian novels - still instructive today.
White bred religious America deserves to be hobgoblinized. They have hypocritically enshrined a morally bankrupt grifter as the virus to destroy the fabric of democracy, that the land might be ripened for theocracy.
White BREAD religious America deserves to be hobgoblinized. Your fundamentalism teaches the values of fear and hate. It's been a thirty year campaign of fear and hatred of anyone outside your pure white circle.
You are hobgoblins because you use the language and mannerisms of a hobgobnlin, lashing out at all you do not understand.
You spend enormous sums empowering sycophantic pundits who will repeat the phrase "America is not a democracy", as if there were ever an experiment with pure democracy in the modern era. Everyone knows that a democratically elected constitutional republic can also be referred to as a democracy, so why the zombies and their monosyllabic grunting? To devalue democracy, of course.
The term "nuclear family" is a hot mess, because a nuclear family is...a FAMILY.
A male led family is just like any other family.
We do not all get the family we want or the family we're supposed to be prescribed, but we have to love the family we're given.
You...you attack other families for not fitting your mold.
The dialogue being peddled by the alt-Right today is precisely what Atwood predicted, and it not only echoes radical Islam, it also echoes another more recent totalitarian monster.
Listen to the speeches of the Third Reich in the 1930's and replace the word "JEW" with "LEFTIST".
The Third Reich rewarded fecund German mothers with the Mutterehrenkreuz, the
"Cross of Honor of the German Mother", given to all "volkdeutsche" mothers who spawned large broods. You're not fooling anybody.
You didn't even read the damn book.
You have clearly copied and pasted a review from some extremist site, because the title is "The Handmaid's Tale" and the characters are HANDMAIDS, not handmaidens.
So thanks for your copy/paste skills, about a book you never read and know nothing about.
