Atwood is a prime example of the worst of the paranoid left who really believe their fellow citizens in a western democracy would like to round up people like them and make them live in a theocratic state where women have no rights.
Her idiotic novel "The Handmaid's Tale" is currently making the rounds of HBO (?). A dystopian novel about modern day women forced to live like women of three hundred or more years ago.
Only nutty leftists dream up these things.
The series is on Hulu not HBO. But you make a good point, and no, it is not likely to happen. A similar plot line was in the movie “V for Vendetta†only that was not just about women and more or less Orwellian but that can also be said of "The Handmaid's Tale".
However, while certainly a very tiny minority, I’ve tangled with some folks over at TOS who would love to see a theocracy established where fundamentalist Christianity is the only religion allowed, where homosexuals would be arrested and imprisoned or worse, and they would want to take away women’s rights to vote by repealing the 19th A.
They would also want to criminalize all extramarital relations and force women out of the workforce excepting for “traditional†roles like maids, teachers, nurses, etc., but only for unmarried women with no children. And a few have proposed beyond criminalizing abortion again, penalizing women for not being married and having as many children as possible. Think of the Duggers and forcing everyone to be live like them.
Again, this a very, very small minority of people who think like that, but they are out there. Just as surely as there are white supremacists and neo-Nazis. And those groups sometimes intersect with each other on somethings.
As they are such a small subset, I’m not afraid of them as I doubt they would ever come to power, but I shudder at the possibility that they could.
As for Atwood on the issue described in the article, she is right regarding the need for due process.
I believe that in order to have civil and human rights for women there have to be civil and human rights, period, including the right to fundamental justice, just as for women to have the vote, there has to be a vote. Do Good Feminists believe that only women should have such rights? Surely not. That would be to flip the coin on the old state of affairs in which only men had such rights.
Atwood also noted that the #MeToo movement, in bringing attention to the unfair treatment of women in the workplace and the inadequacies of the legal system, has done a great deal of good. But the overall goal must be to reform the legal system—not circumvent it in cases where the victim is a woman.
"In times of extremes, extremists win," wrote Atwood. "Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor, and moderates in the middle are annihilated."
