re: #283 mmmirele

Margaret Atwood would disagree with this statement. She is on record as saying that she didn’t pattern after any one group. Instead, she used elements that had been used in the past, but in many different groups. While this article is kind of breezy, it does point out the sources of the different elements in The Handmaid’s Tale.

insider.com

Also:

It turns out this is incorrect - the group, while definitely insane, was founded after the publication of The Handmaid’s Tale:https://t.co/GgfhOGyBwP

— Kevin Klawitter (@KevinKlawitter) September 22, 2020