'Handmaid's Tale' author weighs in after Hulu trailer gets trolled

[sheshe2]

For anyone who thinks the Hulu series, premiering April 26, is a response to President Donald Trump's White House, author Margaret Atwood would like to direct you to the copyright page of her dystopian novel about young women forced to bear children for couples unable to conceive.

"Sigh," she tweeted Friday. "First published in 1985."

If you read Atwood's novel, you know the premise of Handmaid's Tale: In a near-future dystopia, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is stripped of her rights and treated as breeding property for the state. In the clip, Offred gets fired from her job, her child is taken from her and she's told she will be carrying children for "the leaders and their barren wives."



In response, she declares, "When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Now I'm awake."


The trailer's YouTube page drew more than 1,300 comments in its first day. "Sounds a lot like modern day," writes YouTuber El Tio Brizu. "It is pretty terrifying how prescient this is," comments quizzabella. Meanwhile, on the other side of the political spectrum, viewers like Meme Master are calling the show "anti-Trump propaganda," despite the fact that the series was announced a year ago.

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Please watch the videos. This was terrifying 35 years ago. It is more terrifying today when we have Pence and a group of white men making decisions about OUR BODIES. It really is not all that farfetched. PS the Koch brothers want to rewrite our Constitution.

RESIST

[guillaumeb]

1. It is a fantastic book.

Recommended.

[MuseRider]

2. Me too.

It blew me away! I like some of her others as well but this one, well it sure made me sit up and think.

[sheshe2]

3. Read it a long time ago.

Worth a reread.

I am going sign up for Hulu. I need to see this.

[Girard442]

5. I read it quite a few years ago also.

I'm re-reading it now. It's much harder to get through this time.

[Girard442]

4. Anti-Trump propaganda...first published in 1985.

That is some serious conspiring. Obviously Atwood rode in the time machine with Barack Obama when he went back to alter his Kenyan birth certificate.

[sheshe2]

7. Now that is funny!

Thanks Girard.

[synergie]

6. The GOP did seem to think this was an excellent manual. It's DYSTOPIAN FICTON!

[sheshe2]

8. They must have read it on their daddies knee.

Some/most (I hope) moms would have knocked them upside the head for using it as a primer.

[Lisa0825]

9. I have been waiting impatiently for this to come out! I will be a new Hulu customer!

I have been tempted before, but stopped short of subscribing, but THIS will bring me in! I hope they hot a sales RECORD coinciding with its release!

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Great book, read it in the '80s.

I took it to be a cautionary tale about the dangers of theocracy. Which the RW is getting very close to today.

[meow2u3]

15. The Handmaid's Tale is supposed to be a warning against theocracy

but the Religious far right must be taking it as an instruction manual.

[tammywammy]

11. Such a good book

I like the movie too, I can't wait for this series.

Some great Texas women dressed as handmaids last week as our state senate voted to give doctors the right to lie to pregnant patients.

[ismnotwasm]

12. The fact that anyone thinks it's "anti-Trump propaganda"

Is somehow terrifying

[sheshe2]

13. Well, ism...

They probably never read the book if they can read at all. Their trolling show they are dumber than dirt.

[raven mad]

14. Dead honest? I didn't like the book and read it when it first came out.

Understood it, and it was reality.

But now? I really AM tired of old white men telling me how to be a woman. THEY can't live here. I've known how to be female for 63 years so far. That includes childbirth, surgery, injuries from being dumb enough to fall off a horse, near-strangulation from a definite ex, car wrecks, an earthquake or three and 55 below winters, oh, and a tornado or two, hurricanes, middle-of night "rescue me" calls from friends and neighbors and meanwhile................ yelling moose out of the yard, tending cats................