Has Something Akin to The Handmaid's Tale Actually Happened Throughout History?

[righteous_path]

Aside from the biblical story of Abraham and Sarah, which still isn't a true 1:1 parallel, I can't think of a single case where a religious cult took over a country and established an all-encompassing legal system built around enslaving women, assigning them rigid social castes, and confining them to breeding camps.

The premise is unbelievably elaborate. It's the kind of scenario you could only pull from a dystopian novel, which is exactly what The Handmaid's Tale is. It's essentially fear porn designed to make women, particularly white women, fear their own men.

I've never met a single woman from the Global South who's anxious that something this absurd could happen to her. They already live in societies where men hold authority within the family, and they generally trust men to provide for and protect them rather than fear them.

This obsession honestly seems like a white Western phenomenon. Everywhere else, people have far more immediate concerns than imagining a dystopian fantasy where their own men suddenly turn them into state-owned breeding stock.

 

[NonNTFailure]

Most Hollywood movies are really just propaganda pieces (many of which were even made by the CIA...)

 

[SmhChan]

After about a year of getting blackpilled, this is the sort of conclusion I reached without ever reading The Handmaid’s Tale or the biblical story you referenced.

Foids are so hostile to men that it’s a net negative to co-habit with them. The sex and “manufactured intimacy” aren’t worth it in “trad” society where foids aren’t economically independent. They would still hold power due to their control over men.

What’s crazy is that apparently the foids in the novel are discarded after they’re done breeding, which is exactly the thought I also have in mind in a post-gender-conflict society where the male-female dynamics are completely overwritten.

Ultimately, it was a foid who understood foids are nothing beyond their breeding holes. It’s only men who just harp on about “muh eggs and wombs are more expensive.”