Handmaid’s Tale frightens people because, deep down, they want Gilead.
Why is the Handmaid’s Tale so popular? We are so far from Gilead that it’s not funny. The answer is that it is—always has been—propaganda. It is not about what is now, but what might return. Something to gird the troops. Scared me when I was 15, though.
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