To young to vote at 18.
Too young to drink at 21.
Too young to sign a lease at 25.
But somehow fully capable of consenting to childbirth at 12?
The law doesn't protect children. it protects patriarchy.
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
Dear white women. The Handmaids Tale did not "predict the future," it is without exaggeration based on the real treatment of Black and Indigenous people thru history. It HAS happened, its BEEN happening, its just for the first time it is happening to YOU. Get it together.