The connection amongst Offred and her mother was troublesome and we only ever learn of her through Offred's montage of flashbacks. Offred recollects her as an ardent women's activist who went out on protests and spoke out against male violence and anti-abortionists. When Offred was younger, her mother took her to the park where different women's activists were setting fire to pornographic magazines. Offred was given a magazine to throw into the fire as well. Her mother decided to remain single and independent. She not only believed that men were unnecessary, but that they were and interference. "A man is only a woman’s strategy for making other women." Offred is condemning of her mother's state of mind and point of view "I didn't perceive any
