A Nurturing Container

"We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important" 
"The outside can become hard and wrinkled, for all they care, like the shell of a nut" 
-Handmaids Tale by Margaret Attwood

Women, literally translated as a container, de-personifying their whole existence. The imagery of being a container represents women carrying a child in the womb, such as a container holds food. This concretes the idea of being seen as an object. How they look and they feel means nothing, the only importance is their reproductive organs. From something that is supposed to be a physical action that represents love and commitment now represents only the scientific aspect of a sperm and egg forming a fetus and nine months later the baby being born. The social schema of sex is commitment, trust, love with one person, a connection that can never be taken away. Is now only it's script, a routine, emotionless, careless, a cold act that is now a job. A job you are applauded for, but not for being a woman, and respected as that, but for being a tool to reproduce and keep society alive. 

The fact that their skin can wrinkle suggests that they don't care about your age, or whether it's healthy for you to become pregnant, as long as you're fertile that's all that matters. The health risks mean nothing, whether it's safe means nothing, you are looked at as an employee. If you fall on the you get fired, if you can't get pregnant you're not even considered a woman. And the fact that the parallelism to their appearance is "the shell of a nut" signifies how they are just a thing, on the side, that can be stepped on, pushed away, unacknowledged, like you do with a nut on the sidewalk. You never pay attention to their significance.