One of the more hilarious episodes of this week was when liberals discovered that some company had made a sexy/skanky Handmaid’s Tale costume for Halloween.
They absolutely freaked out:
Someone produced a "sexy handmaid" costume & my brain just exploded.
— Censored Girl (@Girl_Censored) September 21, 2018
And it’s so entertaining.
Today: Slutty Handmaid’s Tale Costume. Tomorrow: Slutty Global Warming. pic.twitter.com/bLr7s1owOX
— Kashana (@kashanacauley) September 20, 2018
The fact that a "sexy handmaid's costume" made it to distribution is your daily reminder that we are in fact rotten to the core
— Samhita Mukhopadhyay (@TheSamhita) September 21, 2018
BUT THEN THE MINORITY LIBERALS GOT ANGRY AT WHITE LIBERALS:
The fact that it only took a short amount of time for the Handmaid’s Tale costume to be removed while the “Pocahottie” and “Sexy Native” costumes remain just shows that the only women y’all care about are white women.
— #DearNonNatives (@dearnonnatives) September 21, 2018
OMG this is so amazing!
White women: That sexy handmaid's tale costume is oppressive and hurtful towards women!
— Ms. Anthropology, *the other face-tattoo one,* MA (@SavvyOlogy) September 21, 2018
Also white women: Racism is over. No one is racist. It's just a costume! https://t.co/ZN4L30KBZi
Yes, People Really Gave a Shit About a Sexualized Handmaid’s Tale Costume, Rather Than Drawing Attention to the 48 Products Fetishizing and Sexualizing Actual Indigenous Women From the Same Exact Company: And yes, we really are in hell.https://t.co/Q2uXdDyAoP
— hokte 🦇 (@sydnerain) September 22, 2018
@Yandy is selling a costume called "Sexy Native American seductress", but sure, Handmaid's Tale is the hill we should die on. #braveredmaiden pic.twitter.com/s3ZSVHWQNe
— LENA earned the power of self-respect! (@missfortune1977) September 21, 2018
The fact that it only took a short amount of time for the Handmaid’s Tale costume to be removed while the “Pocahottie” and “Sexy Native” costumes remain just shows that the only women y’all care about are white women.
— #DearNonNatives (@dearnonnatives) September 21, 2018
.. @Yandy pulling a costume based off the FICTIONAL Handmaid's Tale because White women complained about it being offensive while not pulling the EXTREMELY Racist Pocahottie costumes is proof that even FICTIONAL White women are given more respect & consideration than Native Women https://t.co/Tz3E4TB1bV
— Johnnie Jae aka The Brown Ball of Fury (@johnniejae) September 21, 2018
Here’s the Fox News report on it:
Love it.
UPDATE!!!
I’m sorry I didn’t explain this better (or at all). The reason they’re freaked out about this story is that they see the Handmaid’s Tale as an allegory to Republicans taking away women’s rights to kill their babies. It’s a really weird connection they make and love.
Here’s a description of the story from the comments (thanks!):
“Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude. One of these women, Offred, is determined to survive the terrifying world she lives in, and find the daughter that was taken from her.”
And idiot libs dress up like the [homely] Handmaids to protest Trump and Republicans. It’s pretty stupid:
Women are donning the iconic red "Handmaid's Tale" uniform to speak out in real-life protests https://t.co/H9ETiHnJFY pic.twitter.com/5uIUUKbIbi
— CNN (@CNN) July 28, 2018
So that’s why they got so shrieky over it.