themselves or their safety seriously and that they lack the intelligence to recognize the difference between a sexual fantasy and the real act of rape. Estelle begins her monologue by saying that you can not even look at a magazine without being bombarded with:
             questionnaires like the ones they used to have about whether you were a good enough wife or an endomorph or an ectomorph, remember that? with the scoring upside down on page 73, and then those numbered do-it-yourself dealies, you know? RAPE, TEN THINGS TO DO ABOUT IT, like it was ten new hairdos or something. (Atwood 356)
             The sarcastic tone of the line suggests that women are perceived in a condescending and degrading fashion. Incapable to evaluate their own feelings in reference to rape and that they do not possess the intuitiveness to recognize the magazines offensive manner in portraying such a serious topic. Estelle is offended at the magazines depiction of rape and finds it incomprehensible, "you think it was just invented...I mean what's so new about it" (356) she is further offended at the questionnaire, she is fully aware that rape has been around for sometime. She recognizes, unlike her co-workers, the magazines ploy, at exploiting women's insecurities of self-consciousness, powerlessness, fear and loss of control over their own will and condemns the magazine for minimizing the seriousness of such a sensitive issue.
             Estelle discovers that she is different from her co-workers; she scolds them for their romanticized view of rape, being no more than sex fantasies with strangers, having no connection with real rape. "Rape is when they have got a knife or something and you don't want to do it" (356). She portrays her co-workers as fitting the very stereotype depicted in the magazine. Chrissy, is the receptionist who wears too much makeup, Greta is the naive one, Estelle refers to them as being "... both blondes, I don&ap...