Kylie Jenner (left) in her Handmaid's Tale outfit. Photo / Instagram
Kylie Jenner (left) in her Handmaid's Tale outfit. Photo / Instagram
Kylie Jenner has been slammed on social media for hosting a Handmaid's Tale-themed birthday party for a friend.
The reality star posted multiple pictures and video to Instagram from the event at which Jenner and friends, including model Sofia Richie, dressed up as the show's titular Handmaids to celebrate Instagramstar Stassie Karanikolaou's birthday.
The hit series, based on Margaret Atwood's best-selling 1985 novel of the same name, tells the story of a dystopian future in which the US has become a fascist state called Gilead and its women stripped of all rights, news.com.au reports.
The show's "Handmaids" are selected for their fertility and routinely raped by the men they've been forced to live with. Handmaids can be killed for even the slightest infraction and their bodies hung in public to keep the citizens of Gilead obedient to the regime.
It's an unrelentingly grim series — particularly given the current battle over women's reproductive rights being waged in several US states — but all that seemed to be lost on Jenner who posed and pouted in her Handmaid outfit:
Kylie Jenner (left) in her Handmaid's Tale outfit. Photo / Instagram
Handmaid outfits, party staff dressed as "Marthas" (the women enlisted into slavery to run the households of Gilead), insignia from the fictional fascist state everywhere — Jenner didn't certainly didn't skimp on the details.
The 21-year-old star and mum to one-year-old daughter Stormi was slammed on social media for the bizarre party theme:
Kylie Jenner hosting a Handmaid’s Tale themed party is about to have me walking in front of a bus. pic.twitter.com/XlzXkf9tRY
Kylie Jenner is having a party themed after the Handmaid’s Tale.....so.....who’s gonna tell her that her party is literally celebrating female enslavement for their biological reproduction??
Wait so... Kylie threw a #HandmaidsTale party and got dressed as a handmaid... does anyone wanna tell her that handmaids are literally raped, stripped of their freedom and treated as cattle??? pic.twitter.com/BZBxOoC1AL
did kylie really just do that...lol her friend's birthday party is the handmaid's tale themed and theyre all dressed up in handmaid garb and laughin and cracking up i'm....
— Sof ✡️ Summer’s a Knife (@damoansalvatore) June 9, 2019
Neither Jenner nor Karanikolaou have publicly addressed the backlash.
