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Prejudice And Racism In The Handmaid's Tale

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I disagree with the author’s assertion because It would have been fairly egregious to overlook women of color in a televised series about state-sanctioned reproductive control given our nation’s history. Our nation’s history is exactly why all the Handmaids were white. The children the white Master forced on captive women of color were never going to inherit the Master’s wealth position and authority in the eyes of the Master raping women of color slaves was like breeding cattle. The men who serve as the model for the Masters of Gilead are the same racist people who believe that mixing the races is immoral thus, their heirs will be pure born of white womanhood. The decision to cut out the white supremacist ideology of the Republic of Gilead IMO is wrong and changes the story significantly. The road to Gilead, as the author notes, was paved with racism. It downplays an important truth that racism and fertility is everything are the same ideology IMO The women who need to get the biggest clue from the Handmaid’s Tale are the ones who are likely to miss it because the Handmaids are diverse white women who think they don’t need feminism. By all means, expand on the racism …show more content…

I get it but that removal of the racism of Gilead cheapens the story. In the book fertility is not really a true issue but a straw man used to convince whites that they are being overrun by undesirables . The most frightening aspect of the book was that birth rates were not down due to fertility troubles but that birth rates at least of white, upper class people were down due to women having access to birth control and abortion. Fertility might have been slightly suppressed due to environmental factors as they are currently but all indicators pointed to a lack of control over women rather than a lack of fertility as the impetus for a reactive anti woman

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