To put it mildly, Margaret Atwood has written better books than the "Handmaid's Tale." In it, she has taken too much artistic liberty, and turned past events of history (taking them out of their respective historical contexts) into a caricature of her ideological nightmare. 

The troubles of women and men will never be solved or resolved by turning them against each other. This is simply a very shortsighted and stupid strategy. In history, women have proven time and time again, that when coming to power positions they can be -- and are -- just as ruthless and inhuman as men. The assumption that women - just because they are women - are better human beings then men, is just as false and silly as claiming the opposite.

Unless we step out of this silly gender power-game, where claimed victimhood is just as effective a source of power and abuse as its opposite, we as the human community, and Western culture in general are destined to fail.