The Handmaid's Tale Humanist, not Feminist???

This story is making me angry right now.

According to the story from Bust, the cast of The Handmaid's Tale (2 days away!!!!) was adamant in a recent press conference that the book and show aren't feminist, they are humanist.

We discussed this in class and discussed this in relation to Adichie's writing and others. There's nothing wrong with humanist, but it does ignore the specific struggles of women that the term feminist covers. It should be clear from our two days of discussion of the book that The Handmaid's Tale is extremely feminist. The ideas of freedom to and freedom from highlight the feminism in the book.

The book is not a feminist bible and it isn't the most feminist book out there. By the struggles of Offred and the Handmaid's, the trapped existence of the wives and Marthas, and the society of Gilead in general, we see what happens when women lose all of their freedoms to and are only given the freedom from. We see Valenti's Purity Myth come to life.

The Handmaid's Tale is feminist. There is no doubt about that.