If you read the book instead of watching "influencers" you'd notice it's explicitly about a Christian theocracy, but whatever.

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heisgone 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Atwood is on record saying the inspiration is Iran 79's Islamic revolution.

	▲	PaulDavisThe1st an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Atwood is on record as saying that everything that happens in The Handmaid's Tale has happened somewhere in the world within the 50-100 years that preceded her writing it. While Iran may have been an inspiration, it was not the inspiration, and she has many times spoken of things that have taken place in the USA and found their way into the book.
	▲	nottorp an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		She might be, but what she's actually written in the book is bible not koran references...

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like_any_other 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, it's "about a Christian theocracy" in the sense of "what if a Christian theocracy behaved exactly like an Islamic one".

"Atwood was also inspired by the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1978–79 that saw a theocracy established that drastically reduced the rights of women and imposed a strict dress code on Iranian women, very much like that of Gilead." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale#Composit...

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the_af an hour ago | parent [-]

Nope. A Christian theocracy of Puritan values.

From Atwood herself (https://lithub.com/margaret-atwood-on-how-she-came-to-write-...)

"The deep foundation of the United States—so went my thinking—was not the comparatively recent 18th-century Enlightenment structures of the Republic, with their talk of equality and their separation of Church and State, but the heavy-handed theocracy of 17th-century Puritan New England—with its marked bias against women—which would need only the opportunity of a period of social chaos to reassert itself."

	▲	like_any_other 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		God forbid we notice any similarities not approved by the author. How silly of me to think it could be about anything other than the religion and cultures where gender equality is the highest.