I was wrong, and I'm sorry.

Not 1984. 1984 is very, very doom and gloom. It is a horrible ending, and Orwell clearly had no faith in us to fix the path that we've been walking down.

And they show us how those characters live their lives and overcome it. Again, looking back at The Handmaid's Tale and how it ends. Why was I not thinking about that?

It's a good book, but I was frustrated because I couldn't figure out who benefited from it because queer and trans people and our allies already know everything that's in the book, and it's not the kind of book that's ever going to be touched by the people who demonize us, the far-right thugs who make us out to be the villains.