"We've given them more than we've taken away, said the commander. Think of the trouble they had before. Don't you remember the singles' bars, the indignity of high school blind dates? The meat market. Don't you remember the terrible gap between the ones who could get a man easily and the ones who couldn't? Some of them were desperate, they starved themselves thin or pumped their breasts full of silicone, had their noses cut off. Think of the human misery." (219)
Just because they've "removed" the pains of growing up and dating, they immediately have the right to treat women as possessions rather than equal human beings. Atwood must have either been a feminist and was completely mocking every strange male viewpoint on women, or she was shocked by the blatant sexuality that had come to be in teenagers. Either way would make sense, as she could have written this to open people's eyes that they were being unfair towards these women, or she could have written it to show how completely irresponsible the youth was being.
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