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The handmaids tale.. where would you be sent ?

38 replies

ninnz · 10/04/2025 12:17

You are now in Gilead..

where do you think you would end up..

a wife

a Martha

a handmade

an aunt

an econowife

be sent to jezebels

or the colonies.

personally I would probably be an econowife.. while working for a family which I can spy on and get secrets for MayDay.

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OhDoShutUpGeorge · 10/04/2025 12:33

I think I'd be off to the colonies.

Divorced so no husband. Eek not so good in a place like Gilead I guess.

Too old to be a handmaid and I think it would destroy me to give birth and have it taken from me. Not to mention the injustice, rage and powerlessness I would endure.

Don't think my cooking skills would let me be a martha although I don't really know what you have to do to be one. I can clean and do some cooking and if my life depended on it I'd keep my mouth shut and clean well so maybe I could do this.

Jezebels - nope. Would hate that. This would be my last choice. For all kinds of reasons. I'd rather be a handmaid.

Aunt - Could I be an aunt who was kind and tried to look after the girls with no beatings or cruelty. Maybe. This would seem like the easiest option in terms of physical labours but morally a bit dodgy even if you were kind and mothering of the girls. Maybe that just wouldn't work and the girls would rightly rebel if treated kindly so maybe better stick to scrubbing floors and doing laundry. At least I'd lose weight!!

RaininSummer · 10/04/2025 13:01

Probably a Martha as I can cook, see, garden etc.

thismummyslife · 10/04/2025 13:01

Jeez I’d be in the colonies x

Bigearringsbigsmile · 10/04/2025 13:06

I'd be an econowife maybe? Been married a long time, had children but no longer fertile. Orcthe colonies?

piscofrisco · 10/04/2025 13:07

Martha as a preference. But probably an Econowife.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 10/04/2025 13:10

Probably an Econowife. I have a history of miscarriages but get pregnant too easily to be packed off to the colonies just yet.

OnlyYellowRoses · 10/04/2025 13:12

Probably get sent to the Colonies for past history but married with 5 kids so maybe a handmaiden as fertile AF!

RareGoalsVerge · 10/04/2025 13:12

I think I'd be an econowife or a Martha (though heaven help any household that relied on my housekeeping skills). If I am widowed I might end up an Aunt. I've not got the looks for Jezebels or the figure/grace/social caché to be a wife, and my childbearing years are over so no chance of being a handmaiden. I'd be assumed to be fairly "safe" and unlikely to be sent to the colonies, and DH as a minor public servant would be in the right status bracket to be allowed an econowife rather than having the seniority to be a commander. I hope we'd find ways to contribute to the resistance/underground railroad.

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 10/04/2025 13:19

I'd be in the colonies within minutes if anyone had to rely on my cooking and there's no way I'd keep my mouth shut to be any of the other options.

It is all starting to feel like life imitating art right now though.

Tryingtohelp12 · 10/04/2025 13:19

Only on second season so catching up but totally gripped!

I think I’d be a wife (I guess that would really depend on if my husband met the criteria?) or a handmaiden as I seem to get pregnant just by looking 👀

its2025 · 10/04/2025 13:19

Off to the colonies for me. Divorced and too old to bear a child.

FreddoSwaggins · 10/04/2025 13:39

Doesn't an Econowife need to be fertile? Arent they a combination of Martha/Handmaid for lower status men?

MrsSunshine2b · 10/04/2025 13:55

I'm a second wife so would be classed as an adulteress and ineligible to be an Econowife or Wife.

I'm not fertile enough to be a Handmaid. I would be a terrible Martha. Wouldn't be much of a Jezebel either.

I'd almost definitely end up in the colonies, unless I did what I think I'd do and leave the country the moment things started getting weird.

Frannieisnthappy · 13/04/2025 00:41

I’ve always said it would be the colonies for me. Too old for being a wife or handmaid, my domestic skill is shocking so wouldnt make a good Martha and as I am divorced I don’t think I would be allowed to be an aunt (I couldnt mistreat the handmaids anyway so wouldnt be a good one)

Zippityjumpingbean · 13/04/2025 01:22

The colonies for me I think mainly because I’m gay and too old to be fertile now.
Although, the aunts in the testaments were like nuns who trained up all the younger girls.
i might be ok at that.

Maddy70 · 13/04/2025 01:26

I would probably be a wife due to my husbands status ....

Gingernaut · 13/04/2025 01:29

I'd probably end up in the Colonies

Flytrap01 · 13/04/2025 01:33

how can Jezebel's exist ?

LBOCS2 · 13/04/2025 01:44

Maddy70 · 13/04/2025 01:26

I would probably be a wife due to my husbands status ....

Same. Plus we have three children, and it’s both of our first marriages so nothing untoward there. I am getting on a bit in terms of having any more, mind…

everythingeverything1981 · 13/04/2025 01:45

Colonies I reckon

everythingeverything1981 · 13/04/2025 01:47

Is the colonies a euphemism for the gulag? Eek

mondaytosunday · 13/04/2025 02:02

An aunt (I’m 63) though I don’t think I could punish people like they do. So I’d end up in the colonies.

HerNextDoorAgain · 13/04/2025 02:06

I’d be an econwife and would be doing whatever I could to rebel so would end up on the colonies

Flytrap01 · 13/04/2025 02:22

everythingeverything1981 · 13/04/2025 01:47

Is the colonies a euphemism for the gulag? Eek

pritty much

nocoolnamesleft · 13/04/2025 02:24

I'd probably end up hanging from the wall pretty quickly.

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