We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of The Handmaids Tale

[Solly Mack]

1. I finally - finally - allowed myself to start watching the series.

I read the book when it came out and I saw the 1990 movie.

I felt a lot of anger while reading the book. That's why I was reluctant to watch.

I'm not without anger now but I knew even then how fast it could all change for women. I still know it. I see the attacks on women and feel it in my gut.

Whenever I see a group of smiling white men around a bill meant to diminish women, the book is all I see before me.

When some man gets up to talk about my body as if he knows better than I do how best to care for it, I see the book.

When I hear a man tell me not to worry - I see red. Offred.

I see/hear women auditioning for their future role as a Serena Joy and I wonder why they hate themselves so much.

I won't type what I'd like to do to the men who are already acting as if they are Commanders. I will say this - I have a far better imagination than Kathy Griffin and I like to play with my food.

See? Anger. Vicious cold anger.

I may have to stop watching.