/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21804215]

Why are women so obsessed with the Handmaid's tale? And why did it take several decades to get to this point when society today is further removed from the scenario it describes than ever before?

[Anonymous No.21804219]

>>21804215
Cause it's a little sexy to imagine

[Anonymous No.21804221]

>>21804215
>Why are women so obsessed with the Handmaid's tale?
It's an erotic fantasy disguised as political commentary. It's the perfect novel to discuss in book clubs for then. So they can look as if they're discussing something important but in reality they're just horny.

[Anonymous No.21804224]

>>21804221
for them*

[Anonymous No.21804226]

>>21804215
>Why do women like books about BDSM which deal with being a woman.

Looks like you could only afford an econowife.

[Anonymous No.21804368]

it appeals to the conscious female mind by portraying a dystopia that, while stupid and incoherent, is manifestly illiberal and therefore bad
it appeals to the female subconscious/hindbrain by portraying a world where they are controlled and ordered around by high status men
it's like fifty shades but with the added benefit of being ideologically orthodox so they can talk about it in public like "ohhhh no it would be terrible if i were a handsome rich white man's concubine oh no haha"

[Anonymous No.21804415]

>>21804221
>>21804368
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[Anonymous No.21804466]

Its a dystopia in which they are similarly dismissed as cattle but also the centre of attention.

[Anonymous No.21805003]

>>21804215
First and foremost, it's a social media fad (and therefore not really thing for most women, but the loud minority) that was pushed during the time of Trump's election over Hillary. Second, it's a wish fullfillment fantasy (and erotic of nature too for som). As the reality is that women increasingly outperform men in society, occupy higher positions, make consumer decisions, receive higher education and generally live in society more suited for female temperament, it's also clear that whatever eternal vices of humankind are not result of men or "patriarchy" but inherit to every person. Thus, the fantasy of some sort of overthrow of Trump type people or hidden structural patriarchy works as escape mechanism for women, that can avoid their responsiblity of being de facto in leading position in this world.

[Anonymous No.21805340]

>>21804215
>>>/tv/

[Anonymous No.21806246]

Because women want to have sex with someone handsome, rich, and/or dominant.
They don't mind being raped if the guy possesses one or more of those qualities.
This isn't my opinion; it's science. See picrel.
>>21805340
The Handmaid's Tale is a novel, dumbass.
Written by a woman.

[Anonymous No.21806714]

>>21804221
Lmao this.
Handmaid's Tale reads like a cross between a YA novel and a wattpad fanfic that takes itself too sternly as a serious political warning.

[Anonymous No.21806726]

>>21806246
So they find regular sex with an attractive man more disgusting than being raped by an attractive man? KEK

[Anonymous No.21806732]

become women have a victim fetish
they want to be seen as the victim all the time and this is probably the most blatant one

[Anonymous No.21806853]

>>21806726
It doesn't make sense to me either, but we all know what happens to you when you argue with The Science.

[Anonymous No.21808653]

It's a metaphor for the 1979 Iranian Revolution

[Anonymous No.21808663]

>>21804215
It'll never not be funny to me that a canadian liberal getting mad at what muslims did in iran ended up with a book's worth of bashing christians for doing something they never did lol. Like imagine getting slapped for something you never did lol

[Anonymous No.21808672]

Why can't women write about consensual sex? Why does it always have to be rape or at least borderline rape-y, barely consensual sex?

[Anonymous No.21808863]

>>21808653
I'd hardly call it a metaphor, it plainly is the Iranian revolution except with fundie Christians on American soil.

>>21808663
What's even worse, even the mullahs in Iran aren't nearly as oppressive as Atwood's imagined Giliad. For one thing most Iranian women are actually college educated while the Sons of Jacob want to keep women illiterate. Yet she would have you believe that she described a plausible scenario of the future and that we came this close to theocratic rule when Trump was elected president. Has there ever been a more exaggerated boogeyman than the patriarchy?

[Anonymous No.21808864]

>>21808672
Because rape is sexy

[Anonymous No.21809140]

>A minority which preserves its identity is inevitably a compact whole which shelters the individual, gives him a sense of belonging and immunizes him against frustration. On the other hand, in a minority bent on assimilation, the individual stands alone, pitted against prejudice and discrimination. He is also burdened with the sense of guilt, however vague, of a renegade. The orthodox Jew is less frustrated than the emancipated Jew. The segregated Negro in the South is less frustrated than the nonsegregated Negro in the North. Again, within a minority bent on assimilation, the least and most successful (economically and culturally) are likely to be more frustrated than those in between.
Women feel frustrated because society is trying to turn them all into men. But they can't properly identify the source of this frustration because they largely believe that becoming men is the solution to all their problems. This book is a fantasy where they can confront the illusory source of their frustrations since they're unable to confront the actual source

[Anonymous No.21809451]

>>21806246
>women would rather be raped than have consensual sex

Huh.. the theory is true.

[Anonymous No.21809747]

>>21804215
The story doesn't even begin to make a slight sliver of a fraction of an atom of sense. It's utter absurdity and the only thing that makes it make sense is that it was shat out by a computer or written by an alien who never spent a day on earth.

[Anonymous No.21809790]

>why are people obsessed with the new thing on the TV?

[Anonymous No.21809793]

>>21804215
It's like that "Black Future" fetish book that gets posted here sometimes, but for women.

[Anonymous No.21809803]

>>21808653
>>21808863
Based Iran making mutt women seethe even though they have nothing to do with Iran

[Anonymous No.21809849]

>>21809790
That "new" thing on the TV is already six years old and it's not even the first adaptation of the book. But nobody cared about it back in the 90's.