While learning about Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in high school, some of her students complained, saying there ought to be “a Handmaid’s Tale for men.” (Atwood’s dystopian novel, set in an imagined totalitarian United States in which women are completely subjugated, is famously inspired by real-world oppression. Atwood has stated, “One of my rules was that I would not put any events into the book that had not already happened.”)
