wakephan09
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That People of Praise group that Barrett and her husband belong sounds weird as fuck. It's not the inspiration for Handmaid's Tale like originally reported, but still sounds damn extreme. Men are head of households and have authority over wives, personal advisors that tell you who to marry , where to live, what job to take (former called, wait for it....handmaids if they were women). Barrett seems like one of those highly successful , independent women who support the idea that other women need to submit to their husbands.
If anybody's actually read the novel they'll remember that an important woman character is partly responsible for the violent "return to traditional values" and stripping of rights for women but is in older age (perhaps) super resentful that she gave up her own successful career to do it