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    Majority of Brits believes The Handmaid’s Tale mirrors current political climate

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    1. scramblingrivet on

      I want to like the independent, but this is clearly an advert disguised as research. They don’t even give any citations or mention a survey company to look at the results further – have 56% of the entire UK population even seen/read the Handmaids Tale, let alone drawn parallels to our current society? All I can see is that they have typoed 1500 survey respondents to 1,5000.

    3. LoccyDaBorg on

      I wondered why there was this random woman in red lurking around my place who kept saying “Blessed be the fruit”.

    4. MinuteCautious511 on

      according to the articles posted in this sub the majority of brits believe in essentially everything

    5. Glass_Effect5624 on

      As in, takes too long to come out, the best years have gone and we’re just waiting for it to end?

      (That’s a joke, I’ve never watched it)

    6. Klossomfawn on

      If it was an emergency ‘spiralling out of control’ then you’d think they at least provide a source other than just ‘channel 4 research’.

    7. qwerty_1965 on

      Only a handful of people know what the Handmaid’s Tale is about, and if they had any sense they quit the TV series after season 1

    8. HomeworkInevitable99 on

      I went to a talk given by Margaret Atwood about 8 years ago and she thought her book was coming true.

    9. pink_goon on

      In America, perhaps. They’re dangerously close to married women no longer being able to vote and that’s really just the tip of the iceberg for their Project 2025 manifesto.

    10. sjintje on

      Jesus, this article is all over the place. Its probably a press release for the new series of handmaid’s tale which I have just learned is on the telly, but 56% of the population using it as a reference still seems improbable.

      Just for posterity…

      >Additionally, six in ten (59 per cent) of 1,5000 adults surveyed said

      Might have to take those numbers with a pinch of salt.

    11. milesphotos on

      In Trump’s America definitely. Not over here unless the moronic vote in reform next election, I could see it then.

    12. TimeToNukeTheWhales on

      I always did think some people watched this as victimhood porn. One hand on their oversized glass of wine, the other down their pants.

    13. ero_mode on

      We have an infertility problem but it’s not to the point where dozens of children are born per year. We don’t have any religious cults running around with the potential to decapitate parliament.

      Nobody is calling for women to lose the ability to travel unaccompanied, or own bank accounts or hold jobs.

    14. DrawAdministrative20 on

      Yeah…. No, just no

      Majority of Brits aren’t very smart if this is the case, holy shit just no

      Unless they’re talking about islam… But even then, just no lol

    15. ToughSpitfire on

      Yep, which means us Canucks are on the front lines this time…great.

    16. Whitechix on

      Seems like it’s obvious left wing fear mongering for the online sort to lap up. Not sure what reality it mirrors of than some right wing hysteria.

    17. seandunderdale on

      And yet reform will still probably win the next election. We get the leaders we deserve I guess.

    18. GnomeBoyo on

      I think it’s more likely a bunch of horndogs are getting off on the idea of being forced breeders.

    19. downbarton on

      lol, only on Reddit

      The last lot pushed for a vaccine mandate and therefore social segregation… an extremity of leftism not seen since the 1930s

    20. InnocentInvasion on

      British media and “The World is getting more dangerous for Women” narrative, name a more popular combination

      I guess they’ve brainwashed enough people who’ll subscribe to the storyline and click any article associated to that narrative whether it’s true or not

    21. KOMarcus on

      Fun fact: 90% of people who reference “The Handmaids Tale” have very little idea what it’s all about. Also 82% of all internet stats are made up.

    22. Rimbo90 on

      I don’t think it’s true over here but moreso in America with repealing Roe Vs Wade, curbing women’s rights to healthcare, looking to end no-fault divorce and electing a man found civilly liable for rape.

    23. lNFORMATlVE on

      Pretty sure the majority of Brits haven’t read or seen the Handmaid’s Tale.

    25. florence_ow on

      all these people in the comments confidently disagreeing as if it isnt the whole point

    26. CaterpillarLoud8071 on

      It’s the most likely dystopia, when people don’t do what’s good for society through choice, it tends to be forced on them.

      The handmaid’s tale works for the US, but in the UK without a dominant pronatal religion, it’s more likely that religions from immigrant communities that encourage pronatalism will start to dominate. Most likely Islam, as Christians from the third world tend to integrate after a generation or two and their birth rates settle down.

    27. dyallm on

      Ugh… this seems to be a case of being too America-brained. Stop worry about what is happening over in the USA, unless the Americans are doing something cool that we aren’t.

    28. ZealousidealPie9199 on

      > Some 56 per cent of Britons think modern society reflects the challenges faced by women in The Handmaid’s Tale, while a further 47 per cent don’t believe women’s rights are being protected in today’s political climate, according to research commissioned by Channel 4.

      The 47% makes sense with the violence against women issue but.. how are the challenges anything like Handmaids Tale? Like, at all..?

      > Additionally, six in ten (59 per cent) of 1,5000 adults surveyed said that women’s rights have not progressed as expected by 2025, **citing Trump’s presidency**, rising levels of violence against women, and misogynistic online rhetoric as cause for their concern about the state of society.

      Okay, I understand the rising levels of violence thing – its obviously awful – and the online rhetoric thing but… Trump’s presidency? What, is her personally coming to the UK to ban abortions? Is he marching through the streets of London as we speak forcing women into the kitchen? Like.. good Lord.

    29. Negative_Pink_Hawk on

      She is in the scientology cult, after the all she been through 🙂

    30. GodFreePagan42 on

      So they’re going to sit on their arses and moan about it on social media. They deserve what’s coming. The French will not take this shit from their government. What’s the matter with the Brits?

    31. sober_disposition on

      The majority of Brits even seen The Handmaid’s Tale and less still are capable of drawing sensible political conclusions from it.

      Just give it a rest.

    34. OTribal_chief on

      i dont even know what this show is about

      in that sense this country is like that

      i dont know what this country is about at the moment lol

    37. Chemistry-Deep on

      I remember telling my wife when she started watching this that it was really farfetched. Now, I’m not so sure. Amazing what can change in a decade or so.

    39. StrictleProfessional on

      The most dystopian part of the show is the horror of knowing you have to bang Elizabeth Moss in order to repopulate the earth.

    40. gigglephysix on

      only the fucking cult it was written in justification of works WITH the fundamentalists and gets paid by the very same Grafton Street daddy.