[ SECRET POST #2946 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2946 ⌋

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Comments

[ariakas]

Now, I think that Leckie's gender utopia is a bit too optimistic

I'm not even sure Leckie is positing it as a utopia as far as gender is concerned. Very little about the (violent, colonizing) Radchaai is even positive, let alone utopian. Some of the non-Radchaai characters rankle at Breq's incorrect assumptions about their gender, and while the Radchaai characters assume their lack of gender makes them more "civilized" than the non-Radchaai, they assume that about a lot of things, including their right to bring that "civilization" to the galaxy. Forcing gendered societies to adopt non-gendered Radchaai society is part of a violent colonization process that Leckie is pretty clearly critical of throughout the entire novel. Given that they're already a GALACTIC SPACE EMPIRE replete with spotless uniforms and ships full of unwilling slaves, how many puppies do they have to eat for some of the denser readers to understand that Leckie isn't saying they're the good guys or approving of all of their cultural mores?

But fuck it, given how many times I've heard Walter White or Frank-fucking-Underwood referred to as "heroes", I'm beginning to despair that "told from the perspective of" =/= "author tacitly supports this point of view" is a level of nuance beyond the kids these days.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Well utopia =/= tacit support either. Utopia is literally "no place," a thought experiment in culture-hacking.

[ariakas]

I misread your use of the word, then, because I agree completely. "Radchaai society" = interesting literary experiment, =/= personal endorsement of the author's opinion on how things should be.

To anyone with a brain and critical thinking skills, that is.