[Diana in Wisconsin]

No, they still do it, ‘the old fashioned way’ in, ‘A Handmaid’s Tale,’ But the True Wife gets to watch!

*SHUDDER*

I totally get where Atwood thought she was going with this, and I’ve loved her stories since I was a teen.

But, this one is Must Read as a WARNING as to what Mother Government (or any Totalitarian Regime) can do to YOU whenever she wants to.

Atwood is no Conservative as far as I know, but she inadvertently nails Socialists in every one of her books. And they’re always the Bad Guys. ;)

[Tired of Taxes]

I read the book, too, when it was first published. It was a great piece of dystopian fiction. I read it a few times.

I never watched the TV series. From what I can tell, the TV series seems to have changed the plot and missed the whole point of the original story.

[nickcarraway]

I've only read her story, Rape Fantasies, and her poem You Fit Into Me. She has said her writings are not feminist, and criticized some feminists and #metoo. But she says a lot of other things, too.