/lit/ - Literature

>>20580765
I wonder why The Handmaid's Tale is touted so much as a dystopian patriarchy when a far worse real one exists in Afghanistan today under the Taliban.
I mean, sure, things in fictional Gilead are bad, but compare that to the reality in Kabul wherein 10 year old girls are being sold for mere months worth of food amidst a famine in a wartorn land, to perpetual sexual slavery in the name of marriage to a much older man who has three other underaged wives in his harem and the legal right to beat his wives if they refuse to obey him, and they cant divorce him, and theyd be stoned to death if he accuses them of adultery, and they cant go to school, drive a car, or wear what they want.
I think teenage Afghan girls would find fictional Gilead to be a utopia lol
> pic related are child marriages in Afghanistan and Yemen