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Question: Where can you find aspects of 'the Handmaids tale' by Atwood in modern society today!?
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Gay people are still persecuted!.

Evangelical religious groups are very powerful, especially in parts of the South and the Midwest!.

We are willing to give up civil rights in return for increased national security (Patriot Act is one example)!.

Conservative government leaders and social groups want to dictate how woman can use their bodies and undermine them as sexual beings (attempts to overturn Roe v!. Wade, pharmacists can refuse to supply birth control, etc)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Some government was controling the women in the societies, and creating groups so that no one in them knew what was going on in the outside world!. Some cults in the world do that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It actually makes me think of geisha in a strange sort of way!. Same sort of idea !.!.!. different boxes!. Www@QuestionHome@Com