I agree that the power of controlling others is a major part of their motivation in how they treat women. It seems that they also extend that attitude to children and value them more. Lack of children was one justification/excuse for treatment of women in The Handmaid’s Tale. Healthy children were (supposedly) the goal, but treated as trophies, commodities, or tools for emotional manipulation under complete control of the men in charge.
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