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Having not read it, I don't know how accurate this factoid is, but there's also the suggestion that it's a barely disguised rape/subjugation fetish for horny women, who want to flick themselves off to a scenario from an erotica novel dressed up as feminist moralising.
I've noticed this tends to be true of any fiction set in a disaster scenario or near/post-apocalypse. Whenever there is a dire set of circumstances facing a set of characters, or even an entire species, if the solution to the scenario involves trampling women's rights - or even one female character's rights - then writers will immediately swing all narrative sympathy towards the oppressed woman rather than the group. If you are, as we say, 'based and also redpilled' then it's easy to see the seams and limits of feminist ideology, but normalfag simps and feminists are fundamentally incapable of writing from the perspective of men facing existential doom, when there is some crying pussy around.
Well, yeah it's a fetish I'd say. Most fiction directed at women is.
That describes all of feminism.
I can't get over how dumb that book is as distopic novel. Read 1984 or a Brave New World, research the context of when they were made and you can see why their authors could see things like that happening, or worse, it's their way to tell us those things are already here.
Handmaid's tale is just women hysterics because 80s christanity and Reagan bad, but also something about nuclear fallout because why not. It has no basis to conclude something like a theonomic totalitarian state would exist. It's just so disconected from human nature and societal realities.
The distopic novels I mentioned before show how disposable humans are to these totalitarian societies, but even in one of them women can't avoid making themselves the center and telling us how important they are because muh fertility. I'll take one of those BNW artificial wombs, please
"but also something about nuclear fallout because why not"
Probably the Cuban missile crisis/cold war had a hand in that section of the narrative.
I honestly think that's why a lot of boomers are retarded. Existential dread does something permanent to a person's brain.
I meant it as the nuclear thing is secondary to the fertility crisis plot point, most likely because without it, it reads as weird smut
Erm, nuclear war WAS a big fear to GenX and older, and was also the reason behind women becoming cattle - the fallout results in widespread sterility, so fertile women become controlled. They became rare, and thus, a commodity.
They become commodities of the rich and powerful, who need heirs to keep the wealth and power in the family ....
Yes, nuclear unrest was big during the cold war, I still don't get how they supposed that would lead to a religious uprising where women are cattle, even Fallout (the game) is more plausible
And funnily enough it seems only to affect caucasians
Which is dumb because the book implies fertily issues are actually on men's part and they are too dumb to trust the science(TM)
Haven't read the thing since it first came out, but yeah, it was full of holes. It also implied that infertile poor women all worked in mines or some shit. Why is it always mines? But it's Caucasians because, well, things just weren't as consciously "inclusive" as they are now, and making a character "exotic" was done on purpose for different reasons than today (fetishes and the magic negro trope).
Just pointing out that it was in fact very much a product of its time, and it is pretty baffling why it hasn't been updated for a post-9/11 audience ...
I would not at all be surprised to learn that Margaret Atwood actually fantasized about being held down, raped & impregnated by Ronald Reagan the whole time she was writing Handmaid's Tale (one-handed of course).
Or Trump for that matter.
Remember how histrionic some wahmen got, making slogans like "this pussy grabs back?" When the grab them by the pussy comment was ironically about how dumb women are towards someone with money and fame they let you do anything. Not about putting them in breeding camps, kinda weird how they assumed that's what he meant
I notice in alot of mid or post-apocalypse series, almost no thought is given to the children population being 0%-2%. Years into it you'd think people would re-establish and make enough children for mankind to survive, but no. Strong wammen keep taking high-risk positions, even if pregnant.
Now you can argue "child actors is bad long term" for why background characters also have 0, rarely 1 or 2 children in their care.
But this is also the norm in cartoon/Anime. And extends to genres like medieval fantasy where it seems every town or city must be headed to demographic collapse given the age pyramid.
Strong whammen fighters with no kids, the plebs with 0 - 2 kids. In a setting with sustained, very high mortality, you'd expect families of 3 - 5 kids being the norm. Especially in rural areas. Nope. 0 - 2 kids.