Unveiling the Truth: The Historical Origins of 'The Handmaid's Tale
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- This is the much requested deep dive on all the real historical moments referenced throughout "The Handmaids Tale" by Margaret Atwood! My original tiktok touching on the Lebensborn Children peak a lot of peoples interests on what other obscure atrocities the book & show reference: www.tiktok.com/@daisyfoko/vid...
Time Markers:
0:00 - Intro
6:39 - Who Inspired June?
8:21 - Totalitarianism
14:40 - The Ceremony
16:40 - New Names
18:21 - Jezebels
19:33 - Mayday
21:17 - The Colonies
23:57 - The Salvaging
25:47 - Theocracy
27:49 - "Wings"
30:07 - The Procedure
31:25 - The Buddy System
The TRUE History Behind The Handmaids Tale
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Sources:
Why The Handmaid’s Tale Is So Relevant Today. Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. BBC Culture. 25th April 2018
The Handmaid’s Tale Is a Warning to Conservative Women. Sarah Jones. New Republic. April 20, 2017
Margaret Atwood On The Dystopian Novels That Inspired Her To Write ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. Joshua Barajas. PBS. Sep 9, 2019
Margaret Atwood On The Real-Life Events That Inspired The Handmaid’s Tale And The Testaments. Penguin UK. 09 September 2019
What We Can Learn From Romania’s Complete Abortion Ban. Ilana Gordon. Medium. Mar 9, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale’ Author On Anti-Abortion Legislation In Texas: ‘It Is Really A Form Of Slavery To Force Women To Have Children They Cannot Afford. Kirsten Acuna. Business Insider. Jun 4, 2017
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale Sales Boosted By Fear of Trump. The Guardian.
Our Evolving Black American Naming Systems. Elisabeth Pearson Waugaman. Psychology Today.
Sect Causes Split in Jersey Parish. New York Times. 1986.
Decree 770. Wikipedia.
Canada’s Fertility Rate Continues To Put Pressure on Immigration. Cheryl Ubelacker. The Star. 2017.
Soviet Prisoners Exposed to Fatal Radiation in Uranium Mines. Associated Press. 1986.
An Appeal to Fallen Women. Charles Dickens.
Theonomy in the Middle Ages: The Case of Thomas Aquinas. Marc A. Clauson. 2005.
Key Points About Mormon Dress Code. Eastessence.
Pregnant Cambodian women charged with surrogacy and human trafficking. The Guardian.
Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage Or Violation of Rights? International Perception on Public Health. 1997.
A Canadian Perspective on the War of 1812. Victor Suthren. PBS.
Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Volume 1. Melissa Hope Ditmore. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2006.
How do Americans view poverty? Many blue-collar whites, key to Trump, criticize poor people as lazy and content to stay on welfare. David Lauter. Los Angeles Times. 2016.
Mayday. Wikipedia.
Native Americans Expose the Adoption Era and Repair Its Devastation. Stephanie Woodard. Indian Country Today. 2011.
I’m here because of TikTok, thanks again! There’s a poem I didn’t realize was written by Margaret Atwood called Half Hanged Mary, about Mary Webster, it’s a very intense read.
Omg yeah I totally forgot about that
The FGM you mentioned is not technically a sterilization procedure because that would mean they couldn’t reproduce. The removal of the head of the clitoris can actually be treated with reconstructive surgery nowadays (thank god), which is lesser known, but the mutilation is extremely painful and can actually cause UTIs, childbirth complications, infection, and death.
Wait that’s so cool that they can treat that now!
Love how enlightening and in-depth your explanation of “the handmais’s tale” is. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!!
I found you here and you are AMAZING ❤❣️ You are a born educator ‼️👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻PLEASE continue to share your GIFTS with us all🙏🏻🙏🏻❣️
Thank you!!!!
i love how long and well structured this video is, you did such a good job with telling the stories. i love playing video games/studying while listening to interesting podcast/videos, and this has definitely been one of the best experience doing so :)
you're really good at captivating your audience and teaching things, almost like a super cool history teacher lol, anyways this video was great i can't wait to see your next ones like this
Ahhhh Thank you so much!!!!
Hey!! I’m picky with my long form videos like these but I want to let you know that you really did a great job!!
I’m so glad you put this Al together to succinctly I’ve spent hours desperately searching for some video/essay/document anywhere that compiles the history references so 🙏 I appreciate you
Well done
Thank you so much!!!
I had NO IDEA. You educated me tonight, I LOVE HISTORY! Thanks for the video-YOU did a Phenomenal job at pulling out SO MANY SURPRISES!
Thank you so much!!!!
Such an interesting video… I found myself googling and researching as I listened! I read years ago that Atwood visited Iran just before revolution and also saw that sudden change in society as a point of ‘inspiration.’ Fascinating book.
Yes! She was writing while Iran was shifting from being very similar to the way the US was in the 1980s to how it is today! The book is always going to be so relevant because like I said in the video fascism always follows the same rules
Great video! Super in depth and very easy to digest! 1000/10*
* may or may not be somewhat biased 😉 ❤
THANK YOU I LOVE YOU😭❤️
The audiobook on CZcams is great and I'm listening to it now during my morning commute.
Oh wow, I had no idea it was available on CZcams. That’s actually awesome! I love audiobooks
You really are doing amazing with the long-form content, there have been a few other tiktokers who's content brought me along to their CZcams channels and you are the only one that has kept my interest and I've watched all of your historical videos (I have a deep-seeded discomfort with blogs though so I haven't really watched those but I also haven't tried to watch a vlog in 80 million years). Two things I thought of during this is how these same topics reappear throughout history and yet we never learn which is both fascinating and terrifying. I was also reminded when you were talking about royal witnessed births how consummation of marriages were also witnessed so that the marriage could not be annulled by the church if it was falsely claimed that the consummation never occurred.
Wow thank you so much for saying that I really appreciate it!!!! And yeah the royal birth situation is A LOT and was super common across so many cultures
Pov I am reading this book in english and seniorites is kicking my butt. I want to understand the book in greater detail than just spark notes because it skips over details and important details
I have always liked your short-form vids, but I honestly like your long- form stuff even more! Keep up the great work
Thank you so much for the encouragement!!!
This was such an amazing time daisy thank you! Totally enjoyed the long format, came straight from tiktok 💖
AHHH THANK YOU I feel v encouraged rn😁
Amazing video, thank you!❤
No, thank you!!
This was such a good video! I came straight from TikTok and you did a great job!
Thank you for watching!!! I really appreciate it😁
Thank you so much for such an interesting video! It was easy to follow and very informative. I came from TikTok, and I’m really glad I took the time! Thanks again 🥰
Ahhhhh thank you so much for coming over I really appreciate that!!!
This was really interesting! Thanks for posting
This was awesome, Daisy! Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Being a sub is great. Whenever I need a video in the background, ur always recommended 💪🏽
HELLLL YEAH IM FINALLY IN THAG CZcams ALGO but fr that’s great i love listening to long vids in the background too so thank you so much for choosing me
This was so good!! I love the long form 💜
Thank you so much!!!
So glad you are making the Leap! Great job!
Thank you!!! I’m trying🥹
Rewatching from Season 1 after finishing 5. Really appreciated all your insight into the historical connections!
THANK YOU!! I hope the added context makes it an interesting rewatch
Great job. Thanks. Glad someone gets that it was entirely based off history not a dystopian maybe. It’s a reality- that’s isn’t even completely gone. And could come
back if women don’t stop being divided amongst each other. ❤❤❤
Absolutely! It’s something we always have to be on guard for unfortunately
I was super interested the whole time !! A visual aid with pictures would help tho sometimes !! Super great video !!!!
Awesome! Thank you! I’ll add some in next time
Truly love you content here and TikTok!
Very much worth watching, even more so a year later. One of the first "nudges" from the Universe to become a minister was reading Margaret Atwood's book The Handmaid's Tale when it first came out in the early the mid 80's- I thought it was just going to be another post apocalyptic type adventure novel, not realizing that it was going to point out something I'd been noticing around me at the time- the rise of what we now call Christo-Fascism or Christian Nationalism, but back then was simply the rise of the Moral Majority and the Christian Right and it's unholy alliance with Republican politics. The movie in 1990 would would have the same effect.
As my calling to ministry came closer that story along with the books of Bishop John Shelby Spong such as "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism" and "Why Christianity Must Change Or Die" brought home in my that I was meant to be a minister to lend my voice to the growing fight against the rise of this.
During the pandemic, while home I started watching the new version of Handmaid's Tale on Hulu, and I had to stop about 5 or 6 episodes into the first season, with Trump in the White House, and people dying around me it was just too on point.
I finally have been forcing myself into it over the last couple of weeks, taking an episode or two at a time, and then putting Archer episode on Hulu after to just lighten the mood. I'm halfway into season 2 now and seeing a lot of scenes fleshing out the rise of Gilead, especially the men coming together to create this Christo-fascist supposedly pious society that subjugates all women, while at the same time slipping off (and slipping off their piety) to the whore houses they set up.
Project 2025 is the blueprint for Gilead, and the 4th Reich all rolled into one. It is NOT a joke. And every vote not for President Joe Biden or lack of vote due to whatever one thinks is a valid reason for sitting out this election is a vote FOR this horror whow happening on our shores, in real life... and eventually the world.
Wow, that was actually really incredible and super interesting. I’ve never heard that perspective before, someone entering the ministry to push against Christo fascism! Truly inspiring
You did an EXCELLENT job putting this together 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you sm!!
with regards to the discussion of the birthing centres, it happened in Australia too. First Nation's women were put into centres, where they were bred by white men to produce "whiter" children. those children were then taken and placed in white homes to assimilate them into "white Australia". the worst of all? there are adults alive today who were Stolen from their mothers, and the practice, though frowned upon, was still happening in the 1970s and 1980s here in Australia. so some of these kids who were Stolen are now approaching their 50s and have not found their parents yet. It's honestly one of the most disgusting aspects of Australia, the casual racism towards Indigenous Australians. The government hasn't even offered a treaty to the Indigenous Australians, and First Nations people continue to be incarcerated at significantly higher rates than non-Indigenous people (14.7 times more likely). Despite the fact that over 90% of the Indigenous population has been wiped out since the English found Australia, and only represent less than 7% of the population, they make up over 60% of incarcerations and people in prison here in Australia.
I'm not hating, just educating because I think the ideal of Australia is largely that it's comfy and safe and care free, but we have systemic issues as well and deep rooted racism within our culture.
This video is so cool though, thank you for breaking it all down. I love learning new things!
Thank you for this comment this is so interesting
There is a lot of Australian history that has been well hidden/ignored. The stolen generations and unpaid house or farm hands (slaves) happening up to about 40 years ago is definitely a part of Australian history that everyone, at least in Australia, should know. Unfortunately we cannot go back and fix it all, but acknowledgement does play a part.
On a side note. I was born in 1978 to unwed parents who were married a year later. My mother had to put me up for adoption, then my father could adopt me, and as his wife, she could then share guardianship of me. I'm 100% Caucasian, and I know this was happening into the mid 80s
FINALLY!!!!! IVE BEEN DYING TO INCLUDE YOU ON MY LIST OF VIDEO ESSAYISTS I WATCH!1!
AHHHHHH YES!!!!!! I’m def gonna make more videos like this cuz It was so fun for me
The Lebenborn programm was big in Norway..... Sweden wasn't occupied by Germany.... and Frida from ABBA is Norwegian and her Mother moved with her to Sweden, when she was little.
Amazing work! Well done!
Thank you!
I sent this video to all my friends it was so informative and well said, you did so good!!!
You're the best!
I’m here because of TikTok, gotta I’m loving CZcams more. Love the more detailed stories on here. You’re doing a great job
Ahh thank you!! I feel so encouraged 🥹
Fantastic video, thank you! I found you on Tik Tok I think you’re fabulous I’m hooked
Yay! Thank you!
Awesome vid!!! Thank you!
This was amazing. Thank youu 🙏🏻
Thank you!
The algorithm did a great job for me this time because I'm currently rewatching all seasons of the Handmaid's tale, and this time I'm aware of Margaret Atwood saying nothing of this is fiction and noticing all the real life horrors ir draws on. Treatment of women in Iran, genital mutilation in Africa, punishment for adultery in Saudi Arabia, persecution of homosexuals in Georgia and Uganda plus the pink triangle the Nazis used, not even mentioning the most recent political developments in America and Europe (Serena = Giorgia Meloni).
So many thanks for taking the time to put this together!
Dude thank you so much this is my dream feedback!!!
@@DaisyFoko Thanks to YOU for making this video when I had almost lost faith in CZcams. We've been sent good content ;-)
Here from your tiktok!!! I love you!!!
Thank you!! Ily2
Thank you for all the information. I haven’t watched the handmaids tail but I really want to, and this made me want to even more
You’re welcome! I’m glad that you still enjoyed this even tho you haven’t watched cuz I wanted to make sure even if you haven’t seen it or read it it’s still interesting
Loved it👏👏👏👏👏👏 you are phenomenal 🎉
Thank you so much!!
I liveeeee for your videos !!
Thank you!!
Excellent video ❤
I am here from tiktok. I love your content on history 😍
Thank you so much 😁
Amazing job
Awe i posted before you said it in your outro. You really did do an amazing job 🎉
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Excellent, thank you. I really enjoyed this presentation. The political overlay to the story is fascinating. Very interesting to consider in light of recent events and declarations based on greater public good and public health.
No, thank you! And absolutely it is. The handmaids tale really does act as an easy metric of comparison for how extreme certain political moves are
I’m hooked!
yesssssssss so excited for this video
Lmk what you think!
Great video, thanks so much. I just started watching the series a month ago. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I think it is an important reminder that progress can be reversed. Your historical insights are super interesting. I live in Italy which has an exceptionally low birth rate for which even keeping pets has been blamed!
Crazy how ppl always seem to blame it on being a dog mom/dad instead of considering that we have created a lot of infrastructure that supports being a pet owner and a sense of con around it but being a parent in many countries is super isolating
Wow, think about how except for the history and culture of the Puritans, hardly anything about the atrocities against women is taught in schools. Most people can't even handle this level of knowledge. Great video.
OKAY RIGHT???
9:39 greeeeatttt my polish/Swedish ass would have been stolen. 😭😭 10:31 omg IM RELATED TO AGNETHA from ABBA!!! like foreal. I've never met her but she's like my 5th cousin. I know, weird flex but I can't believe you just said ABBA. OMG 😂😂 fse. I was not expecting this 😭😭
OMG THATS WILD
Omg. My mind is completely blown. You did such an amazing job with this. Please keep doing this. My mind is open. Until now I didn’t fully understand what feminism is and now I fucking get it. Like my mind is blown 🤯. And I am frightened by what it means. Truly. So anyone reading this will know what I’m saying that understands the full meaning as well. Women must evolve. WOW
I need to learn more!
Absolutely!! History is the KEY to opening your eyes to the context of everything that’s happening in the present. Most people think it’s boring because it was taught to them by someone who doesn’t really care for the subject but it’s not! It’s so important
there's alot on hulu about cults and polygamy some scary stuff and alot happened right here in the good ol usa
Yup!!!
I'm pretty sure a large amount of the influence also comes from iran, maybe Saudi Arabia
I’ve heard that to
Please do a version of this specifically around the book, as this is Atwood’s true work, not the show.
It’s been a while so I’ll have to reread but I’d be happy to because I really loved the book
In Daisy We Trust 🙏
Canada always gets this weird "we are so wonderful" reputation, but the Canadian gov is still taking Indigenous children away from home and placing them in White households, just through the foster care system. Sometimes, taking a child away is warranted, but very often children are taken because Indigenous values don't necessarily line up with White values. Children are also not often placed into Indigenous foster families or family members and instead placed with White families thousands of km away from their home. The amount of Inuit kids who are taken away from the North and are being brought up in the South and learning nothing about their culture is honestly disgusting. (I'm Inuit with a White mother and I've seen this way too much)
I always say Canada is lucky the US is nextdoor because it really aids in making them look a lot nicer than they should 😅
For context: The type of female circumcision practised in Indonesia is very different to what’s going on in Africa, and is probably the most comparable thing to what US parents are still doing to their baby boys on a massive scale, since they “only” remove the foreskin of the clitoris or p*nis, respectively. Don’t know how bad the situation is in Canada - they do tend to copy a lot of things from the US, but luckily, not *everything.*
I wonder if the dance of Zalongo inspired the handmaid's tale at all. Like, maybe the suicide bomb bit.
That’s a good question
I think an important thing to mention is that not every fascist fulfills every single one of the 14 points. because humans generally don't fall quite that neatly into definitions.
this is an important point because a lot of real life fascists deny being such because they differ in one or two of the 14 points.
also, as a historian I have to say your history references were generally absolutely great! you pointed out some big parallels, some of them comparably unknown. I am not sure you're right about Mary Webster, because mock executions are sadly a pretty common torture method, so there is an almost unlimited amount of possible references the fake hangings could be based on. mary webster is a possibility, but I think it's just more mental torture by a fascist regime.
also, as sweden was not invaded in world war 2, the nazis did not abduct a lot of swedish kids. they abducted norwegian and danish ones. but that's just nitpicking.
swedish people were invited over voluntarily. quite a lot of them joined the Waffen-SS
To address your first point first: you’re completely right!! I’m actually sort of kicking myself now for not making that more clear because that’s a super common scale flat argument facists DO make!
To your second: since I made this video a while ago I’m not certain of this or not but I vaguely remember Mary Weber’s significance being that the author may have mentioned that as a point of inspiration but I might be misremembering tbh. And lastly you’re so right that’s actually my bad about the Swedish women
the dehumanization of slaves went even further than "just" the name. slaves were often purposely split up and separated from other slaves of the same origin. they wanted thenew slaves to have a harder time communicating and identifying with their fellow slaves.
it has caused a massive issue of uprooting amongst african american communities. that's largely why african americans created their own new culture(s). because they lost the reference to their own original culture, because they simply don't know what exact culture their ancestors were from.
the "offred" thing is of course showing a sense of the person being property but it is also simply a form of dehumanisation.
@@DaisyFoko that's fair enough, it's possible the author specifically meant it to be a reference to Mary Webster.
either way, it was a great video and I know your viewers learned a lot from it.
@@jurgnobs1308 thank you so much!!!!
so basically Gilead is Russia's future... we are so close to it
thank you for this video, it's so insightful
Not only Russia but a lot of well established countries. Internationally fascism is rising!
@@DaisyFoko it's so messed up. maybe it's overcompensation
my comment was about Russia, because I am Russian and it's the only country I know well. I read the book probably 5 years ago, now that world seems more real
@@engaby oh your comment was totally correct russia is very quickly becoming more and more fascist unfortunately. But in wester culture in general there’s been a large uptick in the last 10yrs
There were also forced marriage consumptions under the Khmer Rouge in Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Fascist and religious regimes are pronatalist because it’s inherent in their ideology; communist regimes (such as Ceaușescu’s Romania) are pronatalist because they constantly need more workers.
Yes!!!!
I don't just switch platforms for anybody 😅
You’re so real for this
You are a dead ringer for Spanish celeb Lidia Torrent. I cannot unsee it! 😅
Thank you!
Those hair bangs are crazy distracting - oddly comical how they keep changing cut after a cut. I can’t.
But still watching so I’m obviously finding it interesting/informative - a steady stream of info w/out unnecessary filler. Thnx
Ty!
Yeah I quickly realized bangs are not for me lmao
Iran was mostly westernized before the revolution.
Oh absolutely more than that Iran was pretty cutting edge in the 80s, incredible architecture, amazing street style, really really cool culture
Some of the fascism points sounding a lot like Israel
And there’s some serious reasons for that and I’m glad ppl are starting to notice
You look like Arabic singer Fairouz
I didn’t know who she was so I looked her up and ACTUALLY you’re right? Usually when ppl suggest a doppelgänger for me I never see a resemblance but I have to say you finally did it
Was Mary Magdalene actually depicted in the Bible as a “fallen woman?” Does the Bible actually depict her as having worn red?
lol cbc
9:42 Russia kidnapping Ukrainian kids😥
Yeah 😕
You are so beautiful and intelligent never forget that
Thank you!
I really want you to know serena joy give birth to Noah,Ryan Wheeler and his wife gilead are gilead Is sympathizer.
Yeah I literally hate Serena
@DaisyFoko I really hate Alanis Wheeler a gilead sympathizer in Canada and her treatment of Mrs Waterford in season 5.
Lets just say they abused the bible
Unsurprising tbh
How do you manage to criticise FGM without even mentioning Islam once? Name the problem. Gilead is based on a fictional Christian cult, but there is a very real religion that is used to justify this practice and this specific section was you listing off countries where it‘s still practiced. It‘s jarring to listen to this section, when you are deliberately (?) keeping quiet about the real world suffering millions of women and girls go through today.
Idk if you‘re trying to be respectful or woke - just know that this does NOT help women in Islamic countries, it only helps the oppressive systems. (eg: a woman enslaved by ISIS was uninvited from speaking to Canadian college students, bc her criticism of ISIS *might* upset Muslims - literal sex slavery is sth women need to shut up about to accommodate a group of men who are magically exempt from any criticism. This is as anti-feminist as it gets. Refusing to confront the issues honestly in order to be polite or nice is extremely problematic)
I hope this wasn‘t a deliberate omission on your part, but this was very concerning in a video about the real world horrors an author drew from to write about female oppression.
It was in no way a deliberate omission. THMT discusses a Christian authoritarian government which is why Christianity is discussed. There’s other fictional works that focus on Islam and other major religions contributions to oppression as well so if I was discussing one of those books I’d be focusing on whatever religion inspired them👍 I’m not a religious person so I don’t have any particular bias in any direction
female circumcision has nothing to do with sterilization.