1. "Ya no es ficción".
La idea más recurrente es que "The Handmaid's Tale" ha dejado de ser una obra de ficción para convertirse en un documental o un espejo de la realidad actual, particularmente en lo que respecta a los derechos de las mujeres y el avance de ideologías teocráticas.
- The handmaid's tale was supposed to be fiction not a view into the future reality! i hate this world sometimes.
- The handmaid’s tale was never fiction. Sadly, it’s becoming more of a terrifying reality for women. .
- And these people rule the us. The handmaid's tale is not even fiction anymore. It's all happening.
- Sound the alarm: the handmaid’s tale is no longer fiction — it’s policy. Peter thiel’s money. Stephen miller’s cruelty. Russell vought’s blueprint. Women bleeding out in parking lots. Little girls forced to give birth. Life-saving care denied until you’re “close enough” to death.
- It wasn’t too long ago that the handmaid’s tale was considered a work of fiction rather than the documentary it has become.
- I think the handmaid’s tale would piss me off less if it was more a work of fiction and less what i see happening to my country.
2. Una Advertencia Profética.
Muchos usuarios interpretan la novela no como una simple historia, sino como una advertencia o una profecía que anticipó el clima político y social actual. Se destaca la visión de Margaret Atwood como premonitoria.
- Y’all need to read and watch handmaid’s tale. Pay attention. It’s not fiction. It’s history and prophesy.
- We just watched the handmaid’s tale from the beginning. Last episode is tuesday. I loved the book when i read it in 1985. It was fiction then but you are right… so much is reality now. Margaret atwood was so prophetic when she wrote this.
- I thought the handmaids tale was fiction not a prediction. Under my own damn eye, assholes.
- I once viewed “the handmaid’s tale” as a dystopian, futuristic piece of fiction. Unfortunately, it was a “prophesy” that we are now facing as a reality.
- The handmaid’s tale isn’t fiction—it’s a warning. Fascism cloaked in faith thrives when rights are stripped dissent is silenced, women’s bodies become state property.
- I told you america forty years ago the handmaid’s tale was not fiction it was a warning.
3. ¿Un Manual de Instrucciones?
Existe una preocupación palpable de que ciertos grupos políticos no ven la obra como una advertencia, sino como un "manual de instrucciones" o un "plan a seguir" para implementar un gobierno autoritario y patriarcal, a menudo asociado con Project 2025.
- Handmaid's tale is a fiction book, not a instruction manual, really despair the direction the usa is going.
- Once again. This. Is. Gilead. The handmaid's tale was supposed to be dystopian fiction, not a manual on how to govern.
- The handmaid's tale was supposed to be fiction. Not a how-to manual!
- The handmaid‘s tale was meant as a piece of dystopian fiction, not as an instruction manual or playbook.
- Binged the handmaid’s tale thinking it was dystopian fiction. Turns out it was more of a how-to guide.
- And some thought the handmaid’s tale was just a fiction series. For the 100th time - it’s their playbook.
4. Basado en la Realidad Histórica.
Una perspectiva crítica señala que los horrores descritos en la novela no son invenciones, sino que se basan en atrocidades históricas reales. Se critica que la obra a menudo centra el sufrimiento en mujeres blancas, cuando mujeres de color han vivido realidades similares durante siglos.
- Everyone repeat after me: "the handmaid's tale is presented as fiction but is based in real life events.".
- This. Also, everything that happens in handmaid's has happened in living memory, somewhere on earth, or is happening right now. In that sense, not fiction at all.
- Think the handmaid’s tale is fiction? the most disturbing part of this terrifyingly plausible world? it’s all based on real events. As margaret atwood herself once revealed, “one of my rules was that i would not put any events into the book that had not already happened.
- I’m getting tired of this reference. Black women were trafficked & lived through reproductive slavery for four centuries in real life. The handmaid’s tale is fiction.
- This is a reminder that your fears about the handmaids tale were very much real for black women. For us, it was never fiction, but historic fact.
- I saw someone saw once that dystopian fiction is just black and brown history happening to white characters.