The commander has misused the feminist rhetoric, in the story, the commanders seem to have given protection for women, however, it is actually taking women’s freedom away. I think Offred does not agree with the commander. In the story, the quote“Women were not protected then. I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman knew… Don’t go into a laundromat, by yourself at night.”shows that Offred has experienced the time that women were still free and she always recalls the things that she done together with Luke.
If i lived at that era, I would totally disagree the commanders’ respond.
Even though the society that commanders created did give women protection, but it deprived women’s right indeed. I don’t want to live under the society that I cannot decide what I want to wear myself.
