One of the goofiest things the left does is use over-dramatic theatrics during live demonstrations, and no group does this better than leftist white women, usually in the upper, or upper-middle class.
This group of women loves the idea that they're under threat from a theocratic takeover that will turn them into broodmares. I say "loves the idea" because they know that this will never actually happen to them, but the self-victimization that this narrative allows them to indulge in is just too delicious to pass up. So they dress up in "Handmaids" costumes from the show "The Handmaid's Tale" on Hulu, which follows women in theocratic Gilead, a place where fertile women are simply walking wombs, forced to bear children for the elite. They have no rights, and exist only for the purpose of procreation.
Modern feminists love to scream and cry that any Republican victory brings them one step toward make "The Handmaid's Tale" a reality. With the final season coming out in April, leftist white women are bringing the show up a lot and how, if the Trump administration keeps going like it is, women will soon be forced into servitude. The final season seems to focus on these women dressing up like Antifa in their red robes and fighting back.
Leftist white women are oftentimes soaked in feminist propaganda and have been since they were young. In their heart of hearts, they know that being enslaved to bear children and losing all their rights isn't going to happen, but it's a great way to scratch their own itch to fearmonger and accuse. The funny part is, the fearmongering aspect is definitely meant to send an emotional argument to other women, but it's also a thrilling idea for themselves.
In the same way people will go to haunted house productions you see pop up during Halloween, these women can safely flirt with danger, comfy pajama pants on and rose in hand, without ever actually being in any real danger at all. It's effectively fear-porn, and "The Handmaid's Tale" allows for a voyeuristic dread of losing their agency, but one you can pause or turn off and walk away from.
These same women will watch the show, agree with each other that they're totally under this threat, then go vote, drive a car, buy things with their own credit cards, and celebrate another day as a single, childless, career woman with girl-power.
Not that there isn't a form of very real anxiety there to fuel this kind of thinking. These women have bought into the feminist lie that happiness only comes through selfishness, and what these women really, truly fear is obligation to something other than themselves. They've been told all their lives that motherhood is slavery, that being a wife is slavery, that having to keep a home is slavery, and feminism has told them that this is what traditionalists want to bring women back to.
And for women who have been told that all their lives, the idea of domesticated life does cause something akin to fear. Motherhood, in particular, becomes something that would get in the way of their upward climb. It would hold them back from that corner office while their peers are free to achieve what these women have been told is real success and freedom.
Ultimately, this is what they're protesting, their own fear of losing that self-absorption... which no one is saying they should give up.
But the grave hypocrisy in all of this is that many of these women still want to have the husband, the children, and the comfortable lifestyle, and they have these things without ever truly being ready to fully commit themselves to it all. They still go to work, and here's the kicker, they outsource their childcare to lower-class women, often immigrants.
And they see no irony in this. They are above the obligation, but these women in the lower classes aren't, for some reason. Motherhood and parenting is for the help. It's "slavery," but apparently only when it applies to themselves. They'll leave the slave work to the women beneath them.
To be clear, there are families out there that have to do something akin to this to make end's meet. Both parents working jobs is an unfortunate side effect of a mismanaged economy, and the sad reality is that our society has morphed into a place where having or keeping a job isn't as concrete as it used to be.
Hopefully, that will change as our economy improves, but too often, the women donning these red robes don't actually have this issue. They're just women who like the feeling of being a victim of something that doesn't actually pose a threat. Pretend danger at a safe distance. These "activists" are often just bored, angry, or brainwashed women with too much time on their hands, looking for a responsibility they can put down when they need a break and a mimosa.
Who has watched The Handmaid’s Tale? I feel like I’m living it now and only on second episode of season one. pic.twitter.com/df2FM82SWk
— Brenda (@BrendaCTNY) February 20, 2025
Relax, Brenda.
And here's where you can truly understand the performative nature of these protesters in red. These women watch the show then protest against a scenario that will never come here in America, then totally ignore that actual "Handmaid's Tale" happening in places where Sharia is the law of the land. For women concerned about keeping the patriarchy at bay for themselves and their sisters, they seem to have no interest in traveling into Islamic countries to don their robes and protest there?
Why? Because that actually would be dangerous. There, they very well could be snatched up, reduced to chattel, and used as breeding tools... and not even by the elite. They'd just be giving birth to more cannon fodder for terrorist organizations.
You won't even see them doing these kinds of demonstrations outside mosques here in America, because that would imply they're intolerant or racist, and nothing would horrify a leftist white woman more than being accused of that!
Again, "The Handmaid's Tale" is fear-porn. There are no real stakes for them here, but it sure is fun to pretend there are. It allows them to say bold things at parties and rallies, then play dress up to protest and go home feeling like they really did something. It's the perfect upper/upper-middle class white girl fantasy.
Keep fighting that windmill, sisters!
Or I could be wrong about all of this, and the increasingly popular theory that the show is actually a fetish for these women is closest to the truth.
The real reason behind the popularity of The Handmaid's Tale pic.twitter.com/U5xkieJmJD
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) February 21, 2025
