Is Margaret Atwood's rape fantasies a feminist story?
             When I first read the story, to me it was just a story about a woman narrating about a group o f coworker women bragging about how far they were able to go in their rape fantasies, how each of their fantasies was more interesting that those of the others, and in my opinion that was all there was about the story. But then, after reading the story a second time, I started noticing that in fact there was a connection between this story and feminism. The author, Margaret Atwood, show us this connection mostly by presenting us what we could call the opposite of what would be an ideal situation or environment, from a feminist perspective. This is not surprising at all once we get to know a little about Margaret Atwood, because she is very well known for using irony in her works, as well as for stating her point of view about issues such as: politics, social problems, and of course, feminism.
             Feminism is a movement, meaning a group working to accomplish specific goals. Those goals are social and political change -implying that one must be engaged with the government and law, as well as social practices and beliefs. And implicit to these goals is access to sufficient information to enable women to make responsible choices. Within the goals that women were fighting for we can outline the following: right to vote, the right to be treated equally, the right to work, and the right to make their own decisions.
             When we read the story, one of the first things that we notice is that these four women are workers. This fact can definitely be connected to the feminist movement
             because one of the things that this women's liberation movement fought for was that women, like men, could, and should be allowed, to work. At first, one might see this as a very positive thing, but a little bit later in the story, Estelle, the narrator, mentions that she and Greta wo
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