I will probably get into trouble for saying this out loud..

I was born a Muslim and grew up in a (relatively liberal) Muslim country and the Handmade's Tale was very hard for me to watch because it reminded me of my culture and the religion in so many ways.

For example all these sayings like 'praise be' and 'under his eye' and so forth, we have the same 'Alhamdulillah' and 'Inshallah' and on and on.

In our culture women are also seen as an object, usually a handmaid and martha together, haha. But they are definately seen as 'a posession' and not as an equal most of the time. They aren't allowed to say no to sex when their husband or 'owner' (incase of concubine obtained during war).

They are not encouraged to travel alone and have to diassappear as a person in marriage, or incase of oppressive brothers which is very common too. They become their role and their personality is expected to dissappear.

Also woman are held to a very high moral standard and are punished easily if they dont obey, while men behave in disgusting ways and are not reprimanded or punished at all.

I am not from an extreme muslim country, it' actually a pretty liberal one in the Middle East.