HANDMAID'S TALE The Real Origin Of The Republic of Gilead

[@MovieAddicts]

Did you know?

[@davy209]

Margaret Atwood had always emphasized that the inspiration behind “The Handmaid’s Tale” were based on real events that either happened in the past or currently happening now around the world. She never needed to overemphasized the cruelty of mankind and that’s important to both the reader and the viewers of the show. She doesn’t allow anyone to assume that a place like Giliad as a fictionalized dystopian future, but a place that can actually exist in the real world.

[@moobocksniffle]

Society is feeling more and more handmaids tale of late. It's a scary prospect .

[@benink5690]

Well Soviet Russia, Mao and Nazis were real and they were far worse

[@mr.markov3552]

@@moobocksniffleno the fuck it’s not

[@Skarlett.Rose.Ink.]

​@@mr.markov3552Thank you! I hate when people in the west say things like this, or that it feels like Nazi Germany especially in North America. The factbthat they have the freedom to say that publicly with zero repercussions says immediately it's NOTHING like that. They seem to believe that not getting exactly what they want, and the fact that people have very different feelings, thoughts, and beliefs than them, means that their rights are being taken away, or that they are under attack. They conflate "rights" with "desires" or "luxuries" because they have spend their entire lives' being coddled, and then they start screaming ridiculous things like "words are violence" when you try to call out their sense of entitlement. Sorry for the rant. Lol. This bothers me so much.

[@louisacoote2337]

Gilead’s rule became stricter and stricter gradually. Women losing their jobs and having their accounts frozen first, then anyone who has been married before and is now married to someone else is sinful…

[@williammckinney4090]

What's really weird is that we never even see any Gileadian media in the show. No TVs or radios blaring propaganda. The closest thing we saw were those videos with the Waterfords asking for Baby Nichole back, but those were meant to be seen abroad.

[@bethoney96]

The people who can consume the media, men, have it and control it heavily. They express that they like traditional ways so newspapers would be king but radios might be used as well. However, because of the use of radios by rebels in WW2 they may have decided against them.

[@DavidLemmo]

Broadcast media (radio and television) can be hijacked or carry subliminal messages of subversion, print media is easier to censor and restrict.

[@amidave9888]

most surprising thing in the entire show is how cruel and brutal women can be on other women while being tortured and humiliated by men at the same time.. but unfortunately that's the reality and not just an imagination

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

That’s literally just the reality of women. The people who oppress them the most will always be other women, regardless of what the man does.

[@albertocabezas282]

They say women are women's worst enemy. And that's true.

[@nisansala100]

Gilead is real now in Afghanistan. It may become real in any place where religious extremists try to tightly control women's lives.

[@tpl608]

Read the words and listen to the speeches of Christians in the USA wanted to breed their way to their Christian nation. Then lpok at their influence in the Colorado springs military. They force those under to go to their type of Christian prayers. There are many examples of Christians wanting to put blacks, gays, women, minorities, the poor, etc in camps. There is no greater hate than Christian love.

[@scottv2468]

Like in America now 🤔

[@AS-yz2iz]

@@scottv2468 Like America now? Women in America aren't allowed to work? To vote? To read? To write? To dress as they please? To travel? To marry who they want? Have to go into sexual servitude? Homosexuals are executed? Adulterers are drowned? Wow.

[@davy209]

It breaks my heart that Afghanistan used to be very westernized before the Soviet-Afghan war and the United States involvement in arming the mujahideen against the Russians. Afghanistan would have been way better off without the political interference from other countries.

[@pippinhillhaviland1147]

What’s exactly what’s happening to the U.S. right now. There’s a move to a theocracy underfoot and whomever doesn’t see this is blind

[@moarschtuff9233]

Gilead is basically Evangelical Christianity, the Taliban, and the KGB all rolled into one.

[@Sky_Star-hq6bx]

Lol ! True That !!!

[@KateeAngel]

True. Taliban's policy towards women is very similar to what we see in handmaid's tale

[@Anon-on1cw]

Lol I see how you snuck in the kgb, Officer

[@arnimzola1139]

Sounds epic

[@Medgewick]

don't insult the KGB

[@rp338]

Commander Lawrence is the most interesting character to me. He was a far left anti capitalist environmental extremist who used and teamed up with the far right to bring back population growth. He lost a certain amount of control over the situation and is working quietly to fix his mistake

[@KateeAngel]

Why would an environmental activist want population growth is beyond my understanding. From the environmental perspective human population should be at least 10 times smaller than now to exist in some resemblance of balance with nature. One species consuming 30% of primary production is a recipe of failing biosphere and reducing biodiversity, and as long as human population is so big, even reducing consumption per capita or changing economic system or inventing new technology won't be enough to restore the biodiversity

[@rubylioness727]

It’s so cool to have access where the original film was made. I couldn’t wait to walk over to the area when I first found out! I walked over with a friend and we stood there and tried to imagine the scenes being played out in the movie! Funnest conversation!

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

I think the most surprising stuff in Gilead has yet to be seen.

[@Stacey_LaValley_Lambert]

There’s also a Church of Gilead right outside Waterford, New York. Dead serious!

[@rubylioness727]

Cool

[@curiousobserver97]

What about Arkansas?

[@mdodd1962]

nope. no fucking way

[@ismartpanda93]

There’s one nearby where I live as well 😅

[@butameremortal9424]

Gilead is also a major drug manufacturer in 🇺🇸

[@omaracevedo4784]

It is important to note that the sons of Jacob also infestrated all areas of American society and government that some of them were previous senators in the US government and as well as the military. So when the coup happened they were already in positions of power with an infrastructure design to sustain the new regime. It would have been good to get a backstory on the high commanders too to know who they were before and what role they played in the fall of America

[@butameremortal9424]

Sounds about right.... so we're exactly where we ( 🇺🇸) need to be

[@janisthibodeau3861]

It's terrifying how much of this is happening 😳 now.

[@rosalinasnow7529]

I didn't notice you had an accent until you said "sah-luh-m" and I was like I've never heard of that before. Took me too long to realize you meant Salem lol. We say it "Say-leh-m" here in the mid-west of the USA

[@ellenpride3157]

Yes, it’s Texas!

[@bmackenzie2740]

Yep!! Sure is and it’s sad!

[@Hamza-qd5wx]

Ironically, Texas kept fighting Gilead in the show

[@KimarShabbaz]

🤣 the thing is many Texans support the Texas law

[@AS-yz2iz]

Texas? They have handmaids? They imprison and beat women? They don't let them read or write or hold jobs? They execute homosexuals? Why isn't this on the news?

[@meladenosine4995]

I’m from dallas and we are fighting the good fight against authoritarianism and maga. We want to uphold our democracy!

[@Xanduur]

This couldn’t happen unless there are a lot of believers (who hate women) who have guns….the Angels, Guardians, Eyes, etc. that to me is the scary part…that there are people who would support such a mentality.

[@call_in_sick]

How many nazis thought they were doing the right thing. There always has been and will be people who will blindly follow orders.

[@nunnayrbznz3576]

We are becoming Gilead.

[@AS-yz2iz]

That's a shame. Where do you live?

[@ryan8878]

@@AS-yz2iz I would bet the United States of America.

[@AS-yz2iz]

@@ryan8878 Why so? Do they enslave.women in the US and make them legal sex slaves? Do they beat them or cut off their fingers if they read or write? Are adulterers drowned, and child abusers stoned to death? Seems to not be the newest comparison....

[@zerotoleranceforstupidpeop4301]

@@AS-yz2iz Christian fundamentalists in this country wish they had the power to do this. Don't be so naive.

[@creativewriter3887]

@@zerotoleranceforstupidpeop4301 the Religious Reich already got the Supreme court.. thanks to the do-nothing democrats who really could have stopped this but were/are so concerned about the "sanctity" of the fillibuster over the autonomy of women.

[@kimberlynroberts7059]

What America is becoming

[@NotAmberlynn]

thankfully. I'm an atheist though, so that's a problem

[@aarondavis8652]

If the liberals keep pushing the lgbtq PC agenda the way they are we will be Gilead oneday.

[@albertocabezas282]

Those little dictator-wanna-be from South America for example. Argentinian Milei, Kast from Chile, Bolsonaro from Brasil and many others.

[@dorismedvetz5796]

Its happening now open your eyes

[@katusienka515]

It really is 😭

[@AS-yz2iz]

Where is all this happening?

[@zeromusphoenix798]

Where? Please tell?

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

@@zeromusphoenix798The totalitarian state of… Texas. They don’t allow you to kill your babies.

[@robertwalker3591]

What is the name of this song used in the video?

[@dakinayantv3245]

Have you heard of project 2025.

[@jerrymcfaddin109]

This Gilead people is the territories of the country of Switzerland. The handmaidens are geneologically chosen women to birth the children of the nobility the aristocracy. The royal bloodline of pharoh.

[@libbychang413]

the origins of gilead can prolly be traced back to reagan...recently its become much more obvs in places like TX & FL...if there was a cutoff date when gilead was definitively estd it wuld be 21 jan 2025...the day before that was the last day of the old america, which was also MLKs b-day holiday...

[@carterperry7206]

Holy shit this is a new level of retarded, what the fuck are you talking about? What are you trying to say?

[@AS-yz2iz]

You are delusional.

[@johnblackhead2384]

Yeah. Conservatives want the handmaid’s tale to be real. Ugh. WTAF is wrong with you? We just ant a fiscally responsible small government that doesn’t try to control the population. You know, genius, the opposite of Gilead. Tell me professor, which party is responsible for vax and mask mandates, businesses closing? Uhm, DemoKKKrats maybe?

[@tpl608]

There is a map that shows las Angeles as being nuked

[@Super165i]

That German dude in World War Two LOL

[@DomiBlanche]

Dabei war der ursprünglich Österreicher

[@Super165i]

@@DomiBlancheokay

[@dmann5938]

I’m waiting for the part when Canada and Drake does a NATO against Gilead

[@DavidLemmo]

Canada is not nearly as well armed as the US, UK, and France. Canada has never had to stand on its own militarily, being part of the British Empire for most of its history (now a member of the Commonwealth) and being a NATO member state bordering the largest and strongest member state in the alliance.

[@Abigzerolol]

@@DavidLemmowell what if Russia or China face off against Gilead instead? (Since China and Russia match the US)

[@freeaus3902]

People should dress up as handmaids this Halloween lol walk around saying “ praise be” “ we have good weather” lol

[@NotAmberlynn]

I actually have Wife dresses. I aspire to be a Handmaid's Tale wife.

[@deshaydariondavisjackson3328]

yea ok and soon as you do the eyes are gonna be waiting to get you

[@deshaydariondavisjackson3328]

@@NotAmberlynn babay you have alot to learn if u think u want to be a handsmaid.

[@QCS_AdamCole]

4:47 Appalachia is pronounced apple-latch-u, NOT apple-lake-a....

[@notrelevantanymore545]

What? Are you sure?

[@josephinetyree1476]

Read the last chapter of THE...BOOK...God wins tho 🙏

[@lannguyen-pu1db]

Why do you think they are forbidding abortions? It's to have a wider choices of adoptable infants. The most good looking ones will be taken by infertile but wealthy "parents" and the rest will be shoved to foster, group homes, or even orphanages, and set loose when they reach 18 years old.

[@TheMegatron489]

"Appalickian"

[@rebeccaspratling2865]

😂 😂 😂

[@filrabat1965]

Why'd Atwood choose Boston as the center of Gilead? Boston's one of the least fundamentalist cities in the country. Northern New England is also the least religious area of the country, with the rest of New England not too far behind. Atwood would have done better to place it's power center somewhere between the Rockies and Appalachians - especially the upper South or lower Midwest. Maybe Central Appalachia would be a good candidate, too.

[@OckhamTheFox]

Americans, please vote. Gilead was avoided after 6th of January 2021 only by a miracle. The midterm elections really matters to finally defend the democracy in the U.S. The only country that supports other besieged democracies

[@TheUnleetGamer]

German dude? Austrian dude*

[@jillgodfrey8445]

that it was allowed to happen, and the military couldn’t stop it

[@jerrymcfaddin109]

Margaret Atwood is a member of my bloodline family. My biological father is an Atwood. We are the descendants of sir William atte woode. Captain of the guards for king Edward the 3rf. Margaret venerates the platform discussion about genesis 30. Margaret loves the idea of her an ancestrally mother being a princess from the royal bloodline of pheronic princess's of the house of Pharoh. That she delights in creating literature about it. There's more to this than many of you see. A hell of a lot more. Like those boys having royal bloodline inheritances of knowledge and decision. Some of you say the Jews run Hollywood. Others say it's the aristocracy people!!! Best figure it out folks it plays a vitall role in my studies and accomplishments

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

Let me guess…American

[@spg1794]

take your meds

[@jerrymcfaddin109]

They call them commanders. There kings of the aristocracy from the royal bloodline of pharoh

[@8698gil]

You're kidding, right.

[@yeahno8294]

Selena was the one who started it

[@suburbanindie]

What country are you from that you mispronounced Appalachian?

[@kingkongchief1177]

What the Republican Party has become

[@AS-yz2iz]

Are you delusional?

[@ColtraneAndRain]

Absolutely

[@AS-yz2iz]

@@ColtraneAndRain You people are so brainwashed it's ridiculous. You really think the Republican party wants to lock up women, beat them, not allow them to read, and basically make them slaves? Are you sane?

[@honestgenz4413]

Many republicans behave this way by trying to put the church and state together. Of course we know that religious extremists believe that they do the work of god even though they may be creating hell itself. This can be the mindset of many Republicans who clearly show that they don't care for the people they only care about power.

[@davy209]

Unfortunately yes. Now we have a bunch of religious extremists in office who are pushing their ideology onto other people.

[@alexhauser5043]

The Handmaid's Tale was inspired by then-recent events in Iran, not by earlier events in western regimes such as Hitler's. Your omission of this fact is disingenuous and smacks of moral cowardice.

[@KateeAngel]

Or maybe he just didn't know about it?

[@keithomadain5418]

The book was written well before the recent events in Iran

[@alexhauser5043]

@@keithomadain5418 Recent events? The Shah was deposed ~45 years ago.

[@call_in_sick]

@@keithomadain5418 the Iranian revolution was 79 - she wrote the book In 84.

[@akaviral5476]

Who the fuck is asking if Gilead is a real place?

[@isthatyoursomnomnom]

Project 2025, essentially.

[@brocklafave9676]

The introduction to this video sounds like you are talking about MAGA

[@rayajayce2034]

Republicans.

[@AS-yz2iz]

You are delusional. Grow up and grown a brain.

[@davy209]

Pretty much

[@zynark777]

Gilead are the good guys.

[@filrabat1965]

Troll.

[@scottpreston28]

this is islam