I just started watching this video and idk if you covered commander Fred’s death yet but I need to share that even the way he was killed is based off of reality. what happened to Fred (being literally ripped apart by a group of angry women who were fed up with the injustice and the fear of the r*pes and gangr*pes they had endured potentially continuing) happened in real life a couple of years ago in India to a gang leader named Akku Yadav. A group of over 100 to 200 women descended to where he was being led out of his courtroom and after he threatened to r*pe the women once he was let out (while the cops holding him laughed as he was making his threats to the women gathered to see his trial bc the cops were all paid off by him), the mob of angry women descended on him with knives and their bare hands and killed him and tore off parts of his body. He and his gang had been terrorizing the slums and targeting the girls and women in there for years all without ever getting in trouble - his gang of men had r*ped girls as young as 10 years old, he r*ped pregnant women and women who had just given birth 10 days prior, he and his gang gangr*ped women to death, he r*ped women in their own homes, girls walking from school, etc. I came across a bunch of comments on Reddit and other forums criticizing Fred’s death and how “unrealistic” it was and how there’s no way it was based on reality bc of how horrible it was and it really grinded my gears bc as usual, people continuously underestimate just how much suffering women have gone thru in history over the thousands of years of oppression and injustice that continues to this day for women and girls around the world.
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.
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.
I think Margaret Atwood also drew on the experiences of women at a type of work house that used to exist in Ireland called Magdalen Laundries. So-called fallen women were sent there to work in convent type conditions for the rest of their lives. There were also mother and baby homes where women who got pregnant outside marriage were sent to give birth and often their babies were given away, sometimes sold to couples who could not conceive. Some very dark history in Ireland around women. There is a film called the Magdalen Sisters which sets it out fairly well. Last such homes only closed in the 1990s 😮
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
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.
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
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
I have always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes, but none of the those that had existed or are still existing managed to elicit such a degree of revulsion and hatred in me towards them as this fictional Gileadean regime does, not even close. It’s quite a feat how this regime manages to make the North Korean regime appear as a beacon of freedom.
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!
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 UA-cam 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
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)
HELLLL YEAH IM FINALLY IN THAG UA-cam ALGO but fr that’s great i love listening to long vids in the background too so thank you so much for choosing me
Fantastic overview and historical context. I don't use tiktok so I found you through youtube while looking up videos on The Handmaid's Tale so I can be ready before it becomes reality in 2025. Very well researched and presented. My ONLY minor complaint is the silent chapter cards, I listened to your video so at first I thought I was losing signal or my YT player was freezing up until I realized it was just the chapter cards! Easy sub. Thanks for the info!
Excellent video! I just found it as it appearss that now, (a year later in 2024), the things you describe from the film are actually happening in the U.S.
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 🥰
Rarely do I actually sit through a 36 minute video. But this was so interesting. And I haven't even read the book or watched the television series, although I do know the storyline from UA-cam videos. LOL. Thank you so much for this.
Daisy, let me just say this: I love the breakdown you provided about the show! I finished season 5 and I’m a little annoyed that it took me so long to watch it! But I want to mention how well you breakdown themes surrounding black people and American history. When I hear most yte people discuss certain topics, its comes off disingenuous and just plain cringe. You, on the other hand, seem like you really get it! You talk straight- make appropriate references- and do a really good job at illustrating your point. Figured I would drop in the comments and give you your THINGS! Thank you💚
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.
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
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
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.
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
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!
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
Is this video about the books or show? I've only read the books and it feels like I have amnesia watching this because there's so much I don't seem to remember, but maybe that's because it happened in the show. Either way it's really interesting
This is a very interesting video. I knew Margaret Atwood said that she didn't put anything in the book that didn't have a basis in history. I didn't know most of the history though. I know that the Puritan theocracy in the 17th century US was a big inspiration though. Thanks for this video. Very enlightening
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.
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 😭😭
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. ❤❤❤
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
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
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.*
O my days i found the handmaid's tale very dark and so depressing but i never thought there was any truth in it .😮 Now i want to see it as it is actually our history 😮😮😳
I know about the biblical story: the two handmaid’s both Rachel and Leah‘s handmaid’s were not passed from one person to another. They were considered Jacob’s wives or concubines. If you read the whole chapter of Genesis 30, number one you find out That before the end of the chapter Rachel gets pregnant and has a kid actually she had two kids. She died, giving the second one life. Anyway, Rachel and Leah‘s handmaid‘s were part of the family. I don’t obviously approve of the way these women used their handmaids, but, at least in that day it was somewhat excepted, just like we have our LGBT today. But in the meantime, Rachel and Leah would bring these two handmaids into the family. Later on in Genesis and I forget which chapter it is just now, Jacob’s oldest son, got private lessons from one of the handmaid‘s and Jacob was upset about it because he considered his son culpable because of sleeping with his father‘s concubine. Anyway, hope that helps. I love to read the Bible so I can tell you that definitely it was twisted all out of shape. The only other time you see a handmaid used as a surrogate was with Sarah and Abraham. They had a handmade named HAGAR. She was also used in this way. But when you find the word handmade in the Bible, it mostly means a personal assistant. so basically what you have here is for women sharing the same husband. None of them are called of Jacob. And again, the handmaid’s weren’t shipped off never to be seen or heard of again. They became Jacob’s two other wives. By the way, just because something in the Bible doesn’t mean, that’s how God wants us to handle things. A lot of Bible stories show how dysfunctional we really are and that’s one of them. I would sure hate to see a society base itself on one of the most dysfunctional families in the Bible.
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.
How the aunts treated the handmaids is quite similar to the treatment of unmarried mothers in the Magdalene laundries/mother and baby homes at the hands of nuns in Ireland
@@DaisyFoko Maybe also read The Testaments. I listened to them on audiobooks. Burning Questions, a collection of essays by Margaret Atwood mentions some of her sources/thinking/writing process for Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace. She references 1984.
@@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
I don’t know whether you’ve been a whole video but this other thing, but the child bride is definitely something that happens in countries where women have a few rights such as in countries were Cheree law exists and especially in countries. You can’t say Muslim anymore so I guess you have to find another way of saying that. It’s interesting how Mrs. Atwood or miss Atwood conflated biblical things with Karen things. Like France there’s nothing in the Bible. It says a woman can’t read. A lot of people didn’t know how to read up until you know until very recently in the historical scheme of things. For instance, until the printing press came along, very few people could read. so this is a very interesting video. I’ve read both books the handmaid‘s tale and the Testament, seen the movie and the Hulu series. The Hulu series is kind of triggering. Every time, aunt Lydia, or one of the other ants abuses the women with their cattle pods and stuff, and, even when Serena Joy would beat June, it really pissed me off. If it had been me, I probably would’ve killed Serena Joy instead of Fred. If I if I were June. Lol. There was a child ride in the handmaid‘s tale called Esther. She was married to a slobbery old commander who was probably 80 years old if he was a day. And she was like what 14.
A lot of things that people.on the west do not get about the Bible, is that so many of the things writen are not actually suggestions/commands about how one should live but rather a recorded history of how the world also used to be around that time..with all the good and the bads of it. If you read the Bible carefully and consult its interpretations from the only ones who could ever interpret it properly (the Saints and original Church fathers) you will know that ex. Just because Rachael used a maid at that time, doesn't mean that the Bible suggests such practices for Christians..this is occuring in many parts of the Bible who are merely historical recordings and nothing else. What these "christian" churches in the US do ( and no wonder the US is full of cults) is that first of all, they use mistranslated versions of the Bible, interpret the Bible on their own (arrogance) which is very dangerous as well and they also take versea of the Bible which are symbolic and metaphorical in both Greek and Hebrew and translate them literally! And that distortion alone has created a bunch of heresies in the west! So not only do they not realize the several mistranslated parts from Greek and Hebrew but they also can't interpret it properly because they dont recognize MANY of the non-literal verses of it. This leads to heresies and cultish teachings such as the ' Rapture'.
Your content comes at a pivotal time as the Republican Party and it’s insane leader are using Christians and faith to advance this Authoritarianism system! Your clear and concise explanations and examples helps us frame the dangers!
Well, it looks like the United States is trying to head that way. Women can't see because men need the women to convince other women, I never understood why people go against their own interests.
Mary Magdalene wore red? That’s never stated stated in the Bible. Sorry to keep squeaking. I’m sort of a Bible geek. Anyway Mary Magdalene never wore red or at least anyway the Bible doesn’t say she did. It doesn’t refer to any colours worn by any women.
it’s so funny to me how a lot of the authors inspirations was the discrimination of woc and racism yet she fails to portray any of that and instead, hands over these experiences to a white woman.
The book itself is much more intersectional, I do really wonder why they didn’t have that cross over into the show because it’s not like this is a show that lacks nuance or is incapable of handling complex dynamics
I just started watching this video and idk if you covered commander Fred’s death yet but I need to share that even the way he was killed is based off of reality.
what happened to Fred (being literally ripped apart by a group of angry women who were fed up with the injustice and the fear of the r*pes and gangr*pes they had endured potentially continuing) happened in real life a couple of years ago in India to a gang leader named Akku Yadav.
A group of over 100 to 200 women descended to where he was being led out of his courtroom and after he threatened to r*pe the women once he was let out (while the cops holding him laughed as he was making his threats to the women gathered to see his trial bc the cops were all paid off by him), the mob of angry women descended on him with knives and their bare hands and killed him and tore off parts of his body.
He and his gang had been terrorizing the slums and targeting the girls and women in there for years all without ever getting in trouble - his gang of men had r*ped girls as young as 10 years old, he r*ped pregnant women and women who had just given birth 10 days prior, he and his gang gangr*ped women to death, he r*ped women in their own homes, girls walking from school, etc.
I came across a bunch of comments on Reddit and other forums criticizing Fred’s death and how “unrealistic” it was and how there’s no way it was based on reality bc of how horrible it was and it really grinded my gears bc as usual, people continuously underestimate just how much suffering women have gone thru in history over the thousands of years of oppression and injustice that continues to this day for women and girls around the world.
I AM PINNING THIS ITS SO GOOD!!! Thank you for taking the time to write this all out!!
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!
Yes, I was confused by this part too. I think in the story they use both tactics but they’re def not the same thing
Love how enlightening and in-depth your explanation of “the handmais’s tale” is. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!!
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
I think Margaret Atwood also drew on the experiences of women at a type of work house that used to exist in Ireland called Magdalen Laundries. So-called fallen women were sent there to work in convent type conditions for the rest of their lives. There were also mother and baby homes where women who got pregnant outside marriage were sent to give birth and often their babies were given away, sometimes sold to couples who could not conceive. Some very dark history in Ireland around women. There is a film called the Magdalen Sisters which sets it out fairly well. Last such homes only closed in the 1990s 😮
My mind went right there!!!
@@elaineb7065 horrible heart breaking haunting history, to think of being alive when they were still operating around me 😢
@@BeckiBlack26 Did you see the other film about the old Irish woman whose son was taken from her & sold off???
@@elaineb7065I think the movie was “Philomena”
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!!!!
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.
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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!!!!
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!!!
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
I have always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes, but none of the those that had existed or are still existing managed to elicit such a degree of revulsion and hatred in me towards them as this fictional Gileadean regime does, not even close. It’s quite a feat how this regime manages to make the North Korean regime appear as a beacon of freedom.
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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 UA-cam. We've been sent good content ;-)
June 2024. It’s starting to feel like Handmaid’s Tale & Idiocracy are SOP manuals.
Unfortunately yeah
Great video! Super in depth and very easy to digest! 1000/10*
* may or may not be somewhat biased 😉 ❤
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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 UA-cam 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
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!!!
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 😅
Being a sub is great. Whenever I need a video in the background, ur always recommended 💪🏽
HELLLL YEAH IM FINALLY IN THAG UA-cam ALGO but fr that’s great i love listening to long vids in the background too so thank you so much for choosing me
Fantastic work! Thank you so much for looking into this in such detail. The quality of this production is insane.
DUDE THANK YOU!!!!!
This was a great video! Very impressed at how much research you must have done ahead of this and I thought this was super informative :)
Thank you so much!
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😁
Fantastic overview and historical context. I don't use tiktok so I found you through youtube while looking up videos on The Handmaid's Tale so I can be ready before it becomes reality in 2025. Very well researched and presented. My ONLY minor complaint is the silent chapter cards, I listened to your video so at first I thought I was losing signal or my YT player was freezing up until I realized it was just the chapter cards! Easy sub. Thanks for the info!
Thank you!! And that’s a suuuper valid critique I’ve since gotten an editor cuz I suck at it haha
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😁
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 audiobook on UA-cam is great and I'm listening to it now during my morning commute.
Oh wow, I had no idea it was available on UA-cam. That’s actually awesome! I love audiobooks
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
You did an EXCELLENT job putting this together 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Fantastic video, thank you! I found you on Tik Tok I think you’re fabulous I’m hooked
Yay! Thank you!
This was really interesting! Thanks for posting
I’m here because of TikTok, gotta I’m loving UA-cam more. Love the more detailed stories on here. You’re doing a great job
Ahh thank you!! I feel so encouraged 🥹
so so interesting, thank you for sharing! please post more of this!!
Thank you!! I will I’ve been wanting to do a deep dive on incels in history for a while too which is sort of adjacent to this subject
Excellent video! I just found it as it appearss that now, (a year later in 2024), the things you describe from the film are actually happening in the U.S.
Thank you! And tragically yes
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!!!
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
I truly enjoyed it. Thank you for the hard work in putting it together.
Thank you!!!
So glad you are making the Leap! Great job!
Thank you!!! I’m trying🥹
Amazing work! Well done!
Thank you!
Rarely do I actually sit through a 36 minute video. But this was so interesting. And I haven't even read the book or watched the television series, although I do know the storyline from UA-cam videos. LOL. Thank you so much for this.
Oh wow I feel so honored🥹
I found you here and you are AMAZING ❤❣️ You are a born educator ‼️👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻PLEASE continue to share your GIFTS with us all🙏🏻🙏🏻❣️
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This was awesome, Daisy! Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great job! I love learning the history behind books like this!
Daisy, let me just say this: I love the breakdown you provided about the show! I finished season 5 and I’m a little annoyed that it took me so long to watch it! But I want to mention how well you breakdown themes surrounding black people and American history. When I hear most yte people discuss certain topics, its comes off disingenuous and just plain cringe. You, on the other hand, seem like you really get it! You talk straight- make appropriate references- and do a really good job at illustrating your point. Figured I would drop in the comments and give you your THINGS! Thank you💚
Thank you so much that means a lot to me 😭❤️
This was so good!! I love the long form 💜
Thank you so much!!!
Truly love you content here and TikTok!
Your great! I really enjoyed the podcast! Il look forward to more from you. Thank You! ❤
Thank you so much!
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.
This was a great and very well structured video !
I sent this video to all my friends it was so informative and well said, you did so good!!!
You're the best!
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
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
This was amazing. Thank youu 🙏🏻
Thank you!
excellent overview! thanks
Thank you!!!
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!!!!
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 am here from tiktok. I love your content on history 😍
Thank you so much 😁
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
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Amazing video, thank you!❤
No, thank you!!
Just stumbled upon this, what a great video! ❤❤❤❤
Is this video about the books or show? I've only read the books and it feels like I have amnesia watching this because there's so much I don't seem to remember, but maybe that's because it happened in the show. Either way it's really interesting
It’s about both! And there’s def differences between the two don’t worry haha
This is a very interesting video. I knew Margaret Atwood said that she didn't put anything in the book that didn't have a basis in history. I didn't know most of the history though. I know that the Puritan theocracy in the 17th century US was a big inspiration though. Thanks for this video. Very enlightening
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
Amazing job
Awe i posted before you said it in your outro. You really did do an amazing job 🎉
Thank you😭😭😭
Awesome vid!!! Thank you!
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
Loved it👏👏👏👏👏👏 you are phenomenal 🎉
Thank you so much!!
there's alot on hulu about cults and polygamy some scary stuff and alot happened right here in the good ol usa
Yup!!!
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
I liveeeee for your videos !!
Thank you!!
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
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
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said! Project 2025 is their manual for an extreme Christian fascist society.
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
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.*
yesssssssss so excited for this video
Lmk what you think!
O my days i found the handmaid's tale very dark and so depressing but i never thought there was any truth in it .😮 Now i want to see it as it is actually our history 😮😮😳
You should def watch and every-time you see something and you’re like wtf google it and you’ll see whatever actual historical event it parallels with
You did a good job ❤
Thank you!!
I know about the biblical story: the two handmaid’s both Rachel and Leah‘s handmaid’s were not passed from one person to another. They were considered Jacob’s wives or concubines. If you read the whole chapter of Genesis 30, number one you find out That before the end of the chapter Rachel gets pregnant and has a kid actually she had two kids. She died, giving the second one life. Anyway, Rachel and Leah‘s handmaid‘s were part of the family. I don’t obviously approve of the way these women used their handmaids, but, at least in that day it was somewhat excepted, just like we have our LGBT today. But in the meantime, Rachel and Leah would bring these two handmaids into the family. Later on in Genesis and I forget which chapter it is just now, Jacob’s oldest son, got private lessons from one of the handmaid‘s and Jacob was upset about it because he considered his son culpable because of sleeping with his father‘s concubine. Anyway, hope that helps. I love to read the Bible so I can tell you that definitely it was twisted all out of shape. The only other time you see a handmaid used as a surrogate was with Sarah and Abraham. They had a handmade named HAGAR. She was also used in this way. But when you find the word handmade in the Bible, it mostly means a personal assistant. so basically what you have here is for women sharing the same husband. None of them are called of Jacob. And again, the handmaid’s weren’t shipped off never to be seen or heard of again. They became Jacob’s two other wives. By the way, just because something in the Bible doesn’t mean, that’s how God wants us to handle things. A lot of Bible stories show how dysfunctional we really are and that’s one of them. I would sure hate to see a society base itself on one of the most dysfunctional families in the Bible.
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
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!!!!
I'm pretty sure a large amount of the influence also comes from iran, maybe Saudi Arabia
I’ve heard that to
How the aunts treated the handmaids is quite similar to the treatment of unmarried mothers in the Magdalene laundries/mother and baby homes at the hands of nuns in Ireland
I’m hooked!
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
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
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
@@DaisyFoko Maybe also read The Testaments. I listened to them on audiobooks. Burning Questions, a collection of essays by Margaret Atwood mentions some of her sources/thinking/writing process for Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace. She references 1984.
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Excellent video ❤
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
I don’t know whether you’ve been a whole video but this other thing, but the child bride is definitely something that happens in countries where women have a few rights such as in countries were Cheree law exists and especially in countries. You can’t say Muslim anymore so I guess you have to find another way of saying that. It’s interesting how Mrs. Atwood or miss Atwood conflated biblical things with Karen things. Like France there’s nothing in the Bible. It says a woman can’t read. A lot of people didn’t know how to read up until you know until very recently in the historical scheme of things. For instance, until the printing press came along, very few people could read. so this is a very interesting video. I’ve read both books the handmaid‘s tale and the Testament, seen the movie and the Hulu series. The Hulu series is kind of triggering. Every time, aunt Lydia, or one of the other ants abuses the women with their cattle pods and stuff, and, even when Serena Joy would beat June, it really pissed me off. If it had been me, I probably would’ve killed Serena Joy instead of Fred. If I if I were June. Lol. There was a child ride in the handmaid‘s tale called Esther. She was married to a slobbery old commander who was probably 80 years old if he was a day. And she was like what 14.
A lot of things that people.on the west do not get about the Bible, is that so many of the things writen are not actually suggestions/commands about how one should live but rather a recorded history of how the world also used to be around that time..with all the good and the bads of it. If you read the Bible carefully and consult its interpretations from the only ones who could ever interpret it properly (the Saints and original Church fathers) you will know that ex. Just because Rachael used a maid at that time, doesn't mean that the Bible suggests such practices for Christians..this is occuring in many parts of the Bible who are merely historical recordings and nothing else. What these "christian" churches in the US do ( and no wonder the US is full of cults) is that first of all, they use mistranslated versions of the Bible, interpret the Bible on their own (arrogance) which is very dangerous as well and they also take versea of the Bible which are symbolic and metaphorical in both Greek and Hebrew and translate them literally! And that distortion alone has created a bunch of heresies in the west! So not only do they not realize the several mistranslated parts from Greek and Hebrew but they also can't interpret it properly because they dont recognize MANY of the non-literal verses of it. This leads to heresies and cultish teachings such as the ' Rapture'.
YES!! It’s a historical text not just a religious one!!!
reality throughout history😢
Yup 💔
Has anyone read “The Testaments “ yet? Allow me to recommend it to all.
I’ll check it out!
I don't just switch platforms for anybody 😅
You’re so real for this
Was Mary Magdalene actually depicted in the Bible as a “fallen woman?” Does the Bible actually depict her as having worn red?
Wait is that thing about ABBA real?? woah
Your content comes at a pivotal time as the Republican Party and it’s insane leader are using Christians and faith to advance this Authoritarianism system! Your clear and concise explanations and examples helps us frame the dangers!
Well, it looks like the United States is trying to head that way. Women can't see because men need the women to convince other women, I never understood why people go against their own interests.
Mary Magdalene wore red? That’s never stated stated in the Bible. Sorry to keep squeaking. I’m sort of a Bible geek. Anyway Mary Magdalene never wore red or at least anyway the Bible doesn’t say she did. It doesn’t refer to any colours worn by any women.
You are a dead ringer for Spanish celeb Lidia Torrent. I cannot unsee it! 😅
Thank you!
it’s so funny to me how a lot of the authors inspirations was the discrimination of woc and racism yet she fails to portray any of that and instead, hands over these experiences to a white woman.
The book itself is much more intersectional, I do really wonder why they didn’t have that cross over into the show because it’s not like this is a show that lacks nuance or is incapable of handling complex dynamics