Yes, that's right. 'Offred' had no options.
And that's what's scary.

I'm assuming (though could be wrong since you are not at all clear about it) that you share the view of the other (few) female persons who have wandered into here only to be reactionary and complacent.
They DO have options but don't value how these rights have been won and choose not to exercise them.
And you haven't asked me any questions (other than 'What exactly are you trying to get at?).
This is a total non-question as I am not trying to get at anything.
I answered Dave's question about mixed messages in a totally straightforward way (surrounded though it was with a sea of blokish outpourings) within the first few minutes of the thread last Saturday night.

Yes, I ignore any posts about anything so trivial as clothes. They don't interest me, especially since they are NOT THE POINT.

Ah, the shortness of life and the trivialities of they who waste it.