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This person twisted up the authors note. As academics in the Middle East, a person with Atwood made a statement to the effect of: thankfully this could never happen in the United States. Atwood’s response was to dive into the predominant religion: Christianity, and make it so based further on US political culture.
Abrahamic religions, all three, can get pretty fundamentally awful. Have you read the rules and regs in the Old Testament? There’s a reason evangelicals cherry pick things from it and don’t live by it.
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How could this never happen in the United States?
Have you never been to the south? They have endless churches chanting for stuff not far off from this.
The southern baptist convention literally exists because they wanted to define Christianity with God specifically choosing slavery of the white man over black people as commanded, they used stuff like this as basis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Ham
I really worry sometimes, I didn't see the book as interesting, because it's not that far-fetched.
https://youtu.be/pA0W0pRqlDI
When I was young we could never imagine a psychotic clown like Trump running for office...
Just about everything in her books happened somewhere, just not all at the same place and time. Some 80s USA, some communist Romania. Just about everyone has oppressed women at some point or other, and continue to do so.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2019/09/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-testaments-real-life-inspiration
I think the only unrealistic part is that she gets away rather than killed... The TV show especially has her in particularly thick plot armour.
The book is a mesmerizing read. I could not put it down. But I cannot watch the TV show. I tried. It’s too much, too drawn out. I’m a woman. I already understand. I do not need a second play through in excruciating length and detail.