I defy the readers of that book to EVERY show me one time in history where women have been treated like they are in that book in a Christian society. They can’t.
The author of that book confused Islam with Christianity.
Even so the book is FICTION - Fiction means it isn’t real.
Ever not EVERY
Unless the government is paying for abortions and abortifacient medications, then Handmaid's Tale is what is happening for all practical purposes.
I would further observe that people on the left in fact desire to lose control, to lose free will. They are voluptularies for coercion, even while they disclaim it. This is part of the reason that they hate God, or reconcile their innate spiritual longing with God-hatred by bending religion toward worldly, sociopolitical purposes.
“Even so the book is FICTION - Fiction means it isn’t real.”
Reality and the “feminist tome” are mutually exclusive concepts!!!
Like or hate her, Atwood did her homework.
i can find much of the stuff she wrote about in "extremists" of every persuasion from the World Council of Churches, to Milo Yianniopoulos, to Pat Robertson, et. al.
We don't notice it because those people are NOT in power.
However, Margaret Atwood DID recognise that not all religious --specifically Christian people-- were following the government line in her book. You see constant reference in both the book and film adaptation to "Southern Baptist Guerillas" attacking government installations and forces.
i really don't care for where Atwood took the book at the end. The characters sounded too much like present day snowflakes to me. However she was correct in that such a tyranny would collapse of it's own weight rather than foreign invasion.
Margaret Atwood is an overrated self-important blowhard with the writing talent of a blind shrew.
I remember having to read some of her drivel in high school.
Droning on and on about G_d only knows what for pages.
I read about 1/3 of the book (I can’t even remember the title) and quit the class.