I think the “Hand Maiden’s Tale” tells you more about the Democrats than anything they want to point at. They are hung up on sex, substituting it for some quasi religious experience where they defy morality and their father — that oppressive patriarch — and the Father above (God). Yes, the Democrats have an issue with this tale and they keep pulling it out maybe thinking one day they will understand their attraction to it. It borders on neurotic hatred where the father should be in chains confined to a Burning Lake of Fire like Satan. The Democrats have issues with “freedom FROM”: Freedom from their dads. They can only destroy and not create, they are the barren ones not the women. Their lack of freedom from their fathers also demands that everyone not be free. This is a sordid Hand Wringing Tale and the Democrats are not Maidens. They are hen pecked husbands who want cuckoldry on every level, sex at every opportunity, as a religious escape from their oppressive “Puritan” dads. If the Democrats had freedom TO (rather than freedom from) they would be able to create, they would have freedom to chose creative options. Good grief, as it is they should get some counselling and save us, and themselves, from this tiresome embarrassment.
I have not read Handmaiden’s Tale—but my thinking is that Democrats, or should I say progressive liberals in particular have a “thing” with God. They do not want to be judged. They know that their lifestyle is “wrong”, but instead of adjusting their lifestyle, they fight to have the rest of society accept and applaud their deviant lifestyle.