"I threw the magazine into the flames. It riffled open in the wind of its burning; big flakes of paper came loose, sailed into the air, still on fire, parts of women's bodies, turning to black ash, in the air, before my eyes." (39)
During Offred's childhood, her mother pushes her into the sort of desexualization of society. The way Atwood writes it, it almost seems like the sexual revolution of the 1960s, but a complete opposite. That was the beginning of changes, when the idea of sexuality was still prominent in younger people, but the older generations were supporting the idea of women not having any rights at all. Once women like Offred began having to wear the uniforms of red clothing and the white eye guards, things had completely changed in a way that is almost impossible to reverse.
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