I admire your analysis of class misogyny. That's the most useful  "Handmaid's Tale" piece I have seen. Thanks also for touching on racist misogyny. That brought something that's been niggling at me to the surface,  the way  the coup apparently happened at a moment when the profound racism of our country had just evaporated, without notice. Maybe the latent premise was that infertility rendered that rich history irrelevant?  Even so, it seems odd and unlikely that race-coding would just stop being a thing in that world. I mean, at the point they are trading fertile women to Mexico in exchange for other resources, wouldn't they keep a eugenic eye on which women they were sending South? Have they all so totally forgotten to be racist? It's weird. I'd be glad for any correction, but I'm afraid that in spite of its  real excellences, the show offers a pale and incomplete feminism.