The writer is incapable of recognizing, much less analyzing, symbolism.  She prefers to bury her head in the conservative sand and to avoid reading "the writing on the wall."  I wonder what she would have made of the coffins and mock funeral processions that were part of many anti-war demonstrations, back in the day.  Perhaps she would have argued that they were irrelevant because the only Americans being killed in Vietnam were soldiers.  It is not the feminists who are "living in 'The Handmaid's Tale' "; it is the feminists who are DEPICTING the fictional characters from "The Handmaid's Tale" as a warning about what might happen, should the Republican agenda and the Religious Right take over our country.  She may disagree with that analysis, but she hasn't put forth a viable argument to counter it, at least not in this article.