Okay. Are we talking about Margaret Atwood as promoting socialism but having tunnel vision and being kind of unable to relate to anything besides the experience of white cis gendered suburban house wives in western countries?

April 08, 2026 - 23:03 UTC

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I can’t really speak to Atwood; just the shows.
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I've read a bunch and I think it's a fair criticism of Atwood. However; I believe that is just a sort of 'not good enough' that ignores her extensive criticisms about the commodification of women.

I will note that the Handmaid's Tale is inspired by/is a criticism of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
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The book explicitly mentions that Black Americans were sent to camps, and that the West is a roiling civil war against Latin American resisters.
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I have some thoughts. I would love to talk about this.

I think I see that the show made casting decisions that injected some kind of intersectional understanding/racialized class notions which are not present in the book and are like. . . Inconsequential to the show besides like. . .
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a head nod in that direction?

I mever watched the show.
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