In A Great Nation, Women Make Dinner, Cocktails, and Babies...Right?

National Conservatives have explicitly foretold a dystopian vision that looks like early-Cold War imperialism—a social order that requires the subjugation of women.

from Don’t Worry Darling

Handmaid’s Tale is fantasy mixed with truthiness. Frightening in an Orwellian sense, but ultimately a farce that makes anything that happens to women in the real world seem mild by comparison.

But there’s a 2022 film that many people slept on—called Don’t Worry, Darling—that paints a similarly grim yet far more realistic picture …