Interactions ive had with handmaids, and what I think of them.

Generally I try to avoid talking to Handmaids, not only because we are not supposed to "fraternize," with them, but because I don't really like them. The Handmaid in our house right know, Offred (Of - Fred, who is our commander), likes to try and talk with the other handmaids and myself. So we gossip a little with her, give her tokens of information from the goings on of our lives. For the most, I only talk her when I have to give her instructions for getting groceries (because she gets them wrong a lot!!), or whenever we have "the ritual," or when the commander has sex with her to try to reproduce. A while ago she caught me an Cora (a fellow Martha) talking about the Handmaids. I was telling her that "I would not debase myself like that" (10), and that they are basically sluts. But whatever, I don't really care what she thinks of me.

I really don't like Handmaids and what they do. In fact I think what they do is disgusting, I think they are modern day sluts. Instead of becoming Marthas or econowives, or something of that sort (apparently we are given a choice) they choose to have sex with upper class men to make babies. How atrocious! How rude! Even though I envy them for being fertile, or being able to have babies, I would not give myself to the government, not like that... I just don't like Handmaids.