**spoilers from the Testaments** So Aunt Lydia explains the process of becoming an aunt. Most are lawyers, teachers, etc. With a very good educational background and degree. They go through horrible training (worse than the handmaids) from being kept in a metal box and having cockroaches crawl on you. Shooting your own friends. Having 0 bathroom breaks, most peed their pants and would have to clean themselves with their own hands and clothes. Once you've been chosen, you have to become a pearl girl and bring someone from Canada to Gilead. Once you've completed that, you are an aunt.
@@chryzig3546 how do they keep from being attacked by Canadian forces? They have the technology and army to. Specially if the USA is declining in population.
@@miltonperez5257 well actually Gilead isn't a part of the USA. It's two different things now. They have a treaty from Canada, and usually the Canadian forces don't attack Gilead, its usually Mayday or other resistances. But Gilead has a very strong army. Even so, the army doesn't attack Canada, they attack those inside Gilead;not outside.
You forgot that there are women who are econowives, which is the vast majority of women in the regime who stay home and tend to their children or housework..
the answers for all of these questions are in the last revelation quran where women has their highest rights from a divine objective perspective not a theoritical or subjective cultural perspective.
Women taking care of kids *Mean while* man doing back breaking work in manual labor forced to do risky tasks in order to not fail family since they are their only source of income.
I found out that the name Offred means more than just "Of Fred". I think another reason she chose Offred was also because it sounds like a play on word for "Offered" As she is a woman being offered to a man for sexual reasons
@@quintillawhite2452 Il the of fred thing but apparently she chose Fred as her owner’s name bc It also sounded like an anagram of “Offered” As her body was being Offered up for sale
I really like this book, it’s one of my favorites! The book is based on the puritans in 16th century in the US. The idea of having a ”handmaid” is from the bible, it’s about Rachel’s maid Bilhah who got pregnant with Jacob’s children, two sons i believe. Rachel claimed them as her own since she couldn’t have children.
It's so bizzare though. I say this because it's so brutal compared to what we recognize as normal. However it has happened before. You bring up the influences, but you may already see some comments by reactionaries that opportunistically missuse comparisons to the backward slide of human rights in west asia within the last few decades.
Sure, it's not like the puritans weren't trying to get everyone to read the Bible and their books, no, they secretly wanted all the women unable to read.
The men in this comment section terrify me. This is why feminists are still so loud in today's society, you STILL do not treat us with proper and equal respect.
@@benmuirhead4229 is it not clear that the men in this comment section believe that women have gained rights past what they should have? We could talk about work place discrimination. Women are less likely to get hired on the basis that they may decide to have children- which is clear sexism. Additionally, companies are less likely to promote women for the same reason- work place discrimination. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537119300429. Additionally, pregnancy is a side effect that is only considered when regarding women. For example, the only reason birth control for women was approved was because pregnancy was considered a worse side effect than anything the birth control may induce. That is why male birth control has not been approved, as they deemed pregnancy was only a side effect for women. Women's pain in the medical field is also downplayed. Women are 3 times more likely to survive serious health complications if their doctor is a woman as opposed to a man (www.statnews.com/2018/08/06/heart-attacks-women-female-doctors/#:~:text=But%2C%20according%20to%20a%20new,care%20is%20also%20a%20woman.). Furthermore, there is tons of malpractice regarding women when it comes to giving birth. For example, the position women are forced to give birth in actually induces tears and pain for women. Women are also likely to be refused from the hospital, removing the time period in which they could receive and epidural. C sections without epidurals occur very frequently in the US (which is horrific malpractice, if you aren't aware). Furthermore, doctors will cut women to induce birth even when she is not fully dilated, leading to a more complicated and more painful recovery post birth. Women are regularly denied sterilization without a man's approval, removing her basic rights to what occurs to her body. Feminism is about equality of the sexes, and we have a long way to go before achieving the most basic levels of equality- such as no job discrimination on the basis of sex, and proper medical treatment.
Not to mention, it’s whole purpose was to combat childlessness and human extinction in the US. The US of today is still vastly overpopulated and the foster care system is imploding. This is FICTION. Yes Atwood used different historic events to write the books, but there has never been an actual Gilead with all factors existing at one time. The closest thing to that at this time is Taliban rule and the way Islamic states treat their women.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 I don’t see a problem with that, and here’s why… Of all abortions in the US, 0.2% are because of rape or incest. In both rare cases of potential pregnancy, the morning after pill is available. For the other 99.9 percent of unwanted pregnancy, due to deliberate unprotected sex, the morning after pill is also available. All these years of sex education in school and Planned Parenthood campaigning, we as women have been taught to use at least TWO forms of birth control, each sexual encounter to prevent pregnancy. Since I first became sexually active, I applied what I learned and never got pregnant before I decided to start my family. Personal responsibility. I was not raised in a religious home. I started young. But I knew the basics- “Unprotected sex WILL lead to pregnancy. It’s that simple- biology 101. Abortion is not necessary. Either use 2 forms of protection, or get the morning after pill. It’s cheap (often free) and prevents unwanted pregnancy. Just because states ban abortion, that doesn’t turn us into Gilead. Again, THT is FICTION. It’s also based on the premise that women have become infertile, and the live birth rate has dropped to near zero. We are nowhere near that. Our birth rate is very high, foster care overpopulated. Why would our government want to create a Gilead scenario? I love the handmaids tale, but I think it has created unnecessary paranoia among women in the states. I’m way more concerned about radical Islamic sharia law taking over. They have built communities in every state, and they promise to take over America. “Death to America!” Remember? Take a very close look at sharia law- looks very much like Gilead. And they are infiltrating us one neighborhood at a time. THATs far more concerning to me than unnecessary abortion “rights.”
@@extremesoutherngal Well MAGA people are very much Taliban mentally so its not too far from the truth if people dont fight against this sort of nonsense mentality. But isnt this also a warning to not get too hedonistic aswell? The reason why this society happens is due to massive sexual diseases. Yknow? Not practicing safe sex or staying with one partner.
@Gregor Heisenhorn ur insane? Men like you are the reason all those misandrist say kill all men and hate you all. You are a spill or air. This is heartbreaking
Republicans want freedom for all (including infants in the womb), the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. DEMOCRATS are the power-hungry control freaks.
@@saartjeh0155 You know it is ironic. You have no problem with men laying their lives for women in times of conflict. Or any problems with how men have it more difficult in life then women economically. But you also expect empathy from those that you also show no empathy for. Women live in a bubble.
the answers for all of these questions are in the last revelation quran where women has their highest rights from a divine objective perspective not a theoritical or subjective cultural perspective.
@@eduardomolina6833 Again, you have an imperialist mindset and you don't even realize it. You want to dictate to others how to live, fundamentally changing their culture. The Taliban doesn't need outsiders to change, they will change from within if they want that change.
@@csakegyjedi Poland was one of the first nations to grant equal rights to women, recognizing women's suffrage in 1918.... so I don't know where you are getting info that Poland treats women poorly.
@@chriscoulter6089 Yep, and that also happened to be the last time Poland did anything outstanding (in a good way) or even positive about women's rights. 103 years ago. Bravo.
@@Cangeltibon Iran is one of six member nations that has not ratified the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, a decades-old treaty that aims to standardize the rights of women across the globe. Progressive gender equality laws reverted after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and gender segregation exists in the workplace, sporting events and more. Iran ranks 141 out of 145 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2015 Global Gender Gap Index.
@@boybriar Liar! You are an absolute liar! If you even begin to understand what you were talking about you would know your words to be the lies that they are. May Jesus open your eyes to the devil who deceives you.
This is an stolen edit from a far longer, and far deeper video by Naiomi R. Mercer on Ted Ed ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7v-mfJMyBO0.html
Okay but let's not pretend cows are people, Obviously they feel pain and suffering, and what happens to them sucks. But that is NOT the same as human people being tortured. Cows are not as sentient as humans. They do not comprehend their situation the same way humans do. If you saw a human child and a cow in the same burning building, don't pretend for a f--king second you would let the human child die to save the cow. To compare human women to cows is actually really f--king disrespectful.
@@Hdidbi_3049 we have enough examples. Look at Saudi before 2016 or Taliban now, or Iran after 1949. I won't comment on your book, you know why? Because that would be judging the words and conforming normal people to a religion, berating them...I won't do that. The ones who have power in the muslim world, have shown us what Sharia law truly means. One might say...but oh, Saudi is rejected by lot of us(because it has an extreme form of the writings) but that doesn't change the fact that it is the leader of the muslim world for the time being...and it's action has way more weight than the words of normal people like you. . Learn to judge by actions, not words...you will get a better understanding of it all.
@@dineshjain5144 you've listed 3 examples to make a judgment on over 1 and a half billion Muslims? And what u say about Saudi being the leader of the Muslims therfore they represent the Muslim world is nonsense. Ur argument is based upon a false premise, Saudis aren't the leader of the Muslim nation so what they do wrong shudnt hold any weight when it comes to the Qur'an or what the majority of the Muslims do. Arabia is just the birth country of our prophet Muhammad pbuh and also includes 2 of the holiest cities in Islam, that's all, Arabia itself is nothing special, nor are the Arabs special, its just those 2 cities that are. Lastly judge Islam by what it says instead of what the people do because Islam is perfect and the people are not.
@@Hdidbi_3049 are women allowed to drive? move about freely? can a woman leave the saudi arabia by the lonesome on their own whim? can they choose and wear their own clothes? since there are a lot of videos of the great lengths they have to go through to escape the country illegaly. and some women make it and some dont.
The most important thing I learned from this comment section: If you have not actually read the book, shut up. Because I see a lot of conservatives here who totally f--king missed the point. If you are a conservative, you are the bad guy in the Handmaid's Tale. It is canon that Gilead was created by religious conservatives. Not socialists. Not liberals. Not people who want gun control. It is SPECIFICALLY stated that religious conservatives were behind it. If you can't even get that right, you are not educated enough on this topic and you need to stop talking.
But...which religious conservatives? The Christians? Where Jesus regularly had female friends and conversations with them? Where he would show friendliness and compassion to a prostitute who was shamed by all others? Where Paul would thank and acknowledge a woman in helping establish the early church? Where in Moses' time two sisters were able to own property when their dad died? The fact that the author describes the Handmaids Tale as a "Christian Fundamentalist regime" gives me the impression she indeed did not know what she was talking about!
That because it has happened and is happening for instance sometimes CPS unjustly takes children from there home like I remember watching a documentary on how they stole native American babies evan if there was nothing wrong all just because they had too many members and they went to a foster family. Also the corrupt saudi Arabian government forces woman inside evan if she is educated they with more experience she's not given a proper career for her service and what's mostly sad is how more woman are more educated then the men not to mention the domestic workers who they treat like trash
@@ingridguevara7185 The people of Gilead are your closest ideological predecessors, 50 years ago you would’ve had the same exact beliefs and you too would conform to this society.
Really? Because the people I see fighting to keep their guns - and using them against the government - are the exact same people who would WANT this to happen. You realise it's mostly conservatives who don't want gun control? It wasn't the liberals who attacked the Capitol building; and they certainly weren't fighting for womens' rights. Just saying. You also realise the government has tanks and nukes, and guns are not going to do s--t? They let you keep your guns because they know you can't do anything with them lmao. Do you think they'd actually let you keep something you could use to stop them? Do you think they're stupid? Also, I want to point out that in the book, Gilead literally happened BECAUSE the public had access to guns. This wasn't the US government - the public went to war with the government and won. If anything, this book advocates for gun control. Gilead happened because there was no gun control.
the answers for all of these questions are in the last revelation quran where women has their highest rights from a divine objective perspective not a theoritical or subjective cultural perspective.
Margaret Atwood’s Handmaids Tale is a near future novel. depicts the republic of gilead a fundamental christian regime, established a theocratic regime within Gilead. A few men have structured the regime in a way that they have most of the power, or that it is centralised to them, to control women’s reproductive rights. 1985 was when it was established , talks about the future of conservative society that makes them completely subservient to women. Types of Characters 1. Handmaid’s 2. Martha’s 3. commanders wife 4. Aunts and their clothing is colour coded Handmaids are subjected to state engineered rape… offered had a normal, middle income american life.. she was reduced to becoming a two legged womb, to aid gileads declining population. “resistiance” it drives the plot of HMT, how power can be yielded u fairly, creates the dystopian theme of HMT.
I mean Trump MAGA people are basically arguing for this type of incel society. Taliban regime is def closest to mind here. But yeah the whole religious regime of Iran is ridiculous, i hope protestors win that one
@@matrix91234 Not even remotely true. I defy you to list examples of similarities between patriotic Americans who want lower taxes, and the Taliban. What, because Trump made a pussy joke 17 years ago, he's just like the Taliban, who regularly executes rape victims by stoning them?
@@hardpack187 How about all the complains how women are evil and blame them for rape or how idiots like Crowder idealise how 1950s was better times?. Yeah i am pretty sure they lean up to it. But i think Biden's view on semi fascism is mostly accurate description of MAGA base
@3amaintpretty first of all you mean shia islam. ( Which Pakistan isnt even part of) Second of all iran isn't run that way and it is shia. So Pakistan is the worst for that, but not all are great.
That's because it is. Besides, the children would be a thousand times as valuable to society when compared to irresponsible single mothers who spend years of their lives on gender studies and racial theories.
what kind of actual glue are you huffing. there has literally never been a more privileged time for females as current year. pick any time in human history that it's been better to be female then now. yaahhh...
We lived in a Christian based world before. In that world many were given rights in the past 100 years and more. It just kept getting better. The 90's were really nice. Everyone seemed to be getting along. Then the shit disturbers were unleashed, stirring everyone up to fight and hate one another again. This was the start of the invasion. Then laws were passed for the woke. People were hurt, fired, trampled, killed, imprisoned, told they were not allowed to speak, not allowed to have weapons, not allowed to have a say in the education of their children, and that there were certain words they had to say or they could face prosecution. WE ARE IN GILEAD. WOKE GILEAD. And the Left are the Commanders.
We will never run out of babies, I dont nun know if you've noticed but the world is overpopulated. And women, educate yourself and get out of your social media accounts seeing what someone wore last week. Educate, own your choices, be good, be strong, and stop screwing stupid men who you later feel subservient to.
you're saying this like it's women's only problem is screwing the wrong guy and that none of us go to school, to begin with, because we're worried about superficial shit. stop hanging out with the wrong crowd.
Well, I made some OSM Lore about this dystopian future: In 2195 when Holograms are on the rise, Quantum Computers are mainstream and AI is very popular, The Sons of Jacob tries to take over the USA, Which may Microsoft worry about it. So, They decided to make the last version of Windows before the fall of the USA. It is called "Windows 300.00" made 5 Years later after the US Parliment storm. Codenamed "Revolution" as for the spoof of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. This OS Features everythign that is featured in older/legacy Windows Versions so as well as DNA Scanner, Hologram Support and Quantum Printer. Richard Gates Jr. (The Grand-Grandchild of Bill Gates), had announced a final goodbye for Windows in the USA as it will turn into "The Republic of Gilead". By then, The Sons of Jacob made their own operating system used in Gileadian Quantum Computers. For the aftermath, Microsoft still continues to be in buisness in the rest of the world and made a tech alliance with Shaodong Lithium Enterprises (A Taiwanese-American Tech Corporation). As Gilead dumps Windows, May as well cause a domino effect as the same thing happened to bigger corporations in Gilead like Samsung, Apple, LG, Verizon, T-Mobile, Exxon and e.t.c. For that, they must have to smuggle some foreign stuff to Gilead by rebranding them (Prior to Russia's Sanctions in 2022). Microsoft and LT Holograms have worked on an ultimate OS called "Magnesium 1.0" using the hybrid Quantum/LT Kernel. Now, Microsoft and LT Tech resided to S. Korea for asylum.
How, and i mean how in the sweet mother of fuck do Giliad and The Sons Of Jacob make Joseph "Take over a whole state and brainwash them with drugs" Seed look like a sane and respectable preacher.
Atleast on definition basis Trump MAGA people or Taliban regime comes close to mind. But yeah some islamic fundamentalist rules do come to mind here. Such as the idea that a woman cant leave house for more than 3 days is in islamic rulings
The empire of Greater Chafametain hereby declares the nation of Gilead the sole inheritor of the North American continent - let us show the world the error of it's ways.
This is a fictional alternative reality that has been never manifested in a single western society on the planet. It’s only “true” in islamic countries.
Because there are those who wish for it to become a reality and certain measures are being put in place to make that evil reality a our reality, such as the abortion ban. There are also places on Earth where men are revered as gods and everything else, particularly women, is regarded as inferior. If even a single human group works to bring this evil cult into the real world, it is possible that it will if we do not abolish the evil cult. Every religion has extremists who twist religious texts to support their own evil beliefs and desires. People, on the other hand, are too stupid to think for themselves and instead blindly follow evil men and women.
The book had everything to be good, but the main character is absolutely stupid I'm sorry but Offred perspective is childish and redundant. Antwood described every detail about insignificant things but she did not do the same with very important facts that truly matters, like: introduce you to why and how did the war started, why the "Guardians of Faith" have ZERO power over things with that incredible name they have. I didn't found this book interesting at all because of the way it was written, another perspective and develop of the characters would liven up the plot. Sadly I had to read it for a college exam! hahaha
Tell me where in Qur'an that saying that husband need to use Handmaid's than her wife.. And tell me where in Qur'an saying that women can't read, can't write... If you don't know about religion than don't talk like you know... Such as nonsense statement
@@alhamdulillah5564 i was thought mandatory and forced Islamic studies since the age of 7 until diploma. and also had to take forced and mandatory islamic courses in university. i live in the islamic republic of iran. i was thought that a muslim man can do whatever he wants to his property (slaves, handmaids). you muslims love lecturing people while lying about your bullsh** beliefs.
@@alhamdulillah5564t doesn't matter what does corán say, Bible says don't kill and instead Christian regimes have killed thousands, it's about using religion to justify injustice in your own favor
This is a perfect reflection of actual life, women being afraid of having everything stripped away from the very people who handed them their freedom, with no evidence that society is moving in that direction, was afraid of a handmaids tail would end up being life…..and here we are in 1984
It isn’t at all Islam is nothing like this go an read an Islamic book about female rights please before spouting nonsense and remember that Islam and culture are not the same and are not interchangeable women in Islam are encouraged to get an eduction and work I truly recommend you read a translation of the Quran
@@aishaabdouslam8239 stop lying first to yourself and second to other people . Can u deny sex slavery in islam (moulk al yamin ) or child marriage . Also can u deny that islam forbids women from going out alone . Working and traveling . That it kills gays and athiests or that it controls people's mind and way of thinking . All types of art and music is forbiden . It's the same case or maybe worse . Isis is the best exemple
No not china. Communist States would oppose this because this because they would make everyone slave. Not just women. Also, china is not really communist
China isnt really like this. I mean yeah its authoritarian in turns of you cant criticize the regime which is stupid. But even they dont treat women this badly (atleast on the terms that they have some fundamental human rights)
Isn't that just islamic countries like in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Women aren't allowed to go to school or drive? Or what about in some African countries!?
