Few groups are as exhausting as the pro-abortion crowd, and they're about to find new life thanks to the upcoming final season of the baby killers' favorite show, premiering tonight.
The Handmaid's Tale has become that show leftists point to when they're trying to convince people of the kind of country Republicans want to create and are well on their way to making. It's the left's favorite Hollywood outcome outside of climate disasters like The Day After Tomorrow.
The issue with The Handmaid's Tale is that, unlike other Hollywood catastrophe productions, this show is inexplicably linked to Donald Trump, and not by choice. As The Hollywood Reporter noted in a recent article, the show first debuted in 2017 when Trump's admin was just finding its feet. It wasn't long after this that the red-robed women began showing up at various protests, including Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation.
Since then, these lunatics have become a feature of anti-abortion protests, usually showing up marching in lines in silence, just like in the show. As Roe v. Wade was put in more and more danger, references to The Handmaid's Tale became commonplace.
If you know nothing about the book or the show, it's a dystopian tale written by Margaret Atwood and turned into a television series on Hulu that revolves around America falling into a Christian theocracy called "Gilead," where birthrates are low due to environmental issues, and the patriarchy rules with an iron fist.
As you can see, this fantasy is already like crack to middle and upper-class leftist white women.
Women who have maintained their fertility, called "Handmaids," are stripped of their identity, forbidden to read or write, and are closely monitored by Gilead's secret police. They are ritualistically raped once a month by upper-class men, usually with powerful positions, in the hopes of conceiving and continuing the bloodlines.
The show follows much the same path, except after the first season, things begin to start getting really resistance-focused, if you catch my drift. The plot begins to heavily revolve around said resistance, with main character "June" becoming a central figure.
With the final season beginning Tuesday night, you can bet there's going to be some serious boost in the anti-abortion crowd's obnoxious behavior as leftist women sit in front of their televisions, phones in hand, posting on Instagram, TikTok, and X about how this show is just like real life and how we're headed to our own version of Gilead.
And it would appear the press loves it when that connection is made. The Hollywood Reporter wrote up an entire piece about the relationship the show has with Trump. It was handed the season's first six episodes, and it hints of "the inevitability that, like the real world it’s sure to mirror, it will not be the stuff of comedy":
Atwood didn’t need to spell things out, but real-world factors forced Miller and company to feel that pressure. So Gilead became less and less a looming Anyplace, Anytime and more and more a concrete attempt to respond to and keep up with our own paradigm-shifting junta.
Narratively, The Handmaid’s Tale was so deep in the Trumpian mire that even when Trump decisively lost the 2020 election, there was no opportunity to imagine or reflect any resumption of liberty tied to a Biden presidency. The reception of the fourth season was colored by the lingering resonance of the Jan. 6 insurrection, by the still vivid image of American landmarks being desecrated by costumed citizens. The fifth season, then, premiered in the noxious contrail of the Dobbs decision, which silenced those who believed a 1973 Supreme Court case could serve as a permanent finger in the political dike.
Again, you're going to hear a lot about how Trump is creating a theocratic dictatorship in America that is so unbelievably anti-woman that he might as well force them to wear red robes and turn them into baby factories because he has so much control over a woman's womb.
It sounds to me like the show's producers kind of wanted that to happen, and maybe it's partly because they believe it, but mostly because this kind of online chatter usually becomes virality, which leads to eyeballs on the show, which leads to more money.
But this could also lead to a surge of anti-Trump sentiment from women, if at least temporary, and various pro-abortion groups will probably see an uptick in funds being sent their way. This could result in its own problems, but overall... just prepare yourself for the pro-abortion crowd to get really, really annoying as they give in to fear porn and become outraged by a show that exaggerates a position, as Hollywood does.
