I can’t believe I’m publicly admitting this. I finally agreed to watch Hulu’s interpretation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I was going to keep it a secret, but when the Hildabeast said that a female Republican President would be a “handmaiden for the patriarchy,” my personal handmaiden – the one that runs the Green family – informed me it was time to come clean. I may need to find a support group to help me cope with the ridicule from my toxically male pals.
Up until last month, I had refused to watch the program because I knew the lunatics of the left had latched onto its symbolism to push their radical narratives. I had a hunch the level of insufferable woke preaching would make Academy Award recipients seem downright reasonable. I must say … I was right. But the story does get a few things right, even if inadvertently: slavery is wrong even when called socialism, evil wrapped in a virtuous narrative is still evil, and children are a necessary part of the human experience.
According to the story, the United States has had another civil war, with the author’s notion of right-wing religious extremists being the victors. I guess that’s a logical assumption, given that the left-wing snowflakes have disarmed themselves. Anyway, all the feminists, gays, and what’s left of the American government are in exile in Toronto. That’s logical too, given that the Canuks are known for their embrace of freedom – except for speech, religion, self-defense, due process, and other minor stuff like that.
While Canada remains an enlightened beacon of woke behavior, its neighbor to the south has unleashed its inner misogynist. What was once the United States of America is now ruled according to extremist theocratic law – which oddly isn’t called Sharia, but rather Christianity. The new country is named the Republic of Gilead.
In Gilead, women’s rights have been revoked. They’re no longer allowed freedom of speech, education, or professional careers. The government even dictates how women must dress and what their daily activities involve. Their duty is to serve men as wives, domestic servants, industrial slaves, or child bearers.
That last role brings me to the subject of the handmaids. Due to pollution, climate change, or perhaps gender confusion, most women have become sterile. In response to the resulting procreation crisis, the Christian patriarchy of Gilead uses its thugs God’s soldiers to capture fertile women and press them into service as handmaids. You see, Gilead believes wholeheartedly in the Marxist demand of “from each according to their ability” – and a handmaid’s ability is to have babies for the state.
The Handmaids don’t dress in burkas, as Atwood apparently didn’t want to ruin the narrative with senseless realism. Their attire is scarlet cloaks and white bonnets.
Each handmaid is subjected to a monthly procedure called “the ceremony.” It’s a state sanctioned process in which a sterile wife restrains the handmaid, while her husband rapes fertilizes the handmaid.
The series had plenty of objectionable symbolism, attempting to imply that the followers of Christ would gladly create a society in which half of the population is enslaved to the collective. Atwood seems to think that nothing screams “Christianity” like creating a country which the Taliban would approve of.
But the tiresomeness of the anti-Christian narrative is somewhat offset by the comedy of the radical left’s interpretation of the story. Pro-abortion radicals – like those protesting outside Justice Coney Barrett’s house – have seized on the program’s symbolism to argue for an unrestricted right to terminate a pregnancy at any time before birth.
Women who are unlikely to celebrate Mother’s Day anytime in the foreseeable future have donned scarlet cloaks and white bonnets to protest the overturning of Roe v Wade. They seem to think that being encouraged to choose contraception over surgery for birth control, is tantamount to becoming child bearing slaves for the patriarchy. It made me wonder: Did those gals bother to watch the program before choosing their battle dress?
In Atwood’s dystopian world, none of the handmaids wish to terminate the little products of rape gestating in their biological production shops. In fact, the one thing that everyone in Gilead agrees on is that children – born and unborn – are precious. When a handmaid’s child is born and taken from by the rapists and their spousal accomplices, the handmaid isn’t relieved that she can get on with her career, social life, and dating ritual. On the contrary, every handmaid is filled with anguish when they lose someone they never knew, but loved nonetheless.
In the story, the handmaids conspire to reunite with their offspring, and even risk their lives to smuggle as many as possible out of Gilead. How did the fools in red cloaks outside Barrett’s house fail to see the emotional connection between the handmaids and their children? It’s a connection that undermines their entire “abortion is just a reproductive healthcare choice” rationale.
The next time you see a social justice warrior wearing a scarlet cloak and demanding the right to kill the product of her bad decisions, I suggest copious pointing and laughing. She is demanding the legal right to terminate her young, while ironically (or idiotically) wearing the attire of a fictional character who considered the unborn more precious than her own life.
As for Hillary Clinton’s assertion that Republican women are “handmaidens of the patriarchy,” did she mean that as an insult? Did Hillary miss the part where the love of her children made a handmaid the biggest threat the ruling class of Gilead faced? Or was Hillary calling female Republicans “strong women” by using the word “handmaiden”?
Author Bio: John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a contributor to American Thinker, The American Spectator, and the American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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