10-27-2020, 10:25 AM
(10-27-2020, 10:17 AM)PhilHos Wrote: No, I get that. But I don't think Nati realizes that a 'handmaid' in People of Praise was a leader. It'd be like me being critical of Pelosi because she serves as Speaker of the House.
I don't know much about the People of Praise or their leadership structure or even their internal functioning. Maybe they are a normal religious group that is being unfairly maligned as a cult. But if they are actually a religious cult that treats women similarly to a man's property (harkening back to the olden times when women had very few rights and were reliant on their husband to provide for them), then I think her relation to that group would be a negative and wouldn't be bigoted towards religion to point that out.
But regardless of how the People of Praise actually function, I think Nati's reference is more closely tied to The Handmaid's Tale than the actual People of Praise.
To follow your analogy, it'd be like if someone made a dystopian story about the US Congress where the Speaker of the House is a slave to the other members of Congress who has been abused to the point where they can no longer speak, making the title "Speaker" painfully ironic (I know, it's a weird analogy, but it's what I'm working with haha).