If the dystopia was ugly then no one would go for it. But because the dystopia is so beautiful on the outside and you have to dig for the ugliness, that's how we get tricked into accepting it.
looked up Margaret Atwood on wikipedia and found out 2 things: 1 - Margaret Atwood is still alive. 2 - Margaret Atwood is CANADIAN. OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. i get it now......
Women who saw themselves in the reflection of June, that kind of trickery mind had existed with them almost their whole lives, but sometimes they would realize that no matter how the game was played in their thought, the choice of winning was removed from options, because the system was wrong. Some women would choose to drop their bodies into water voluntarily, their bodies slowly descended into the bed of the water. Strangely, not long after that, they could hear dead women’s voices around them. In other times, they saw some non-dead women standing in the bank alongside above the water, behind those women’s backs, there were always faceless men devouring those women’s organ.