Oh that's odd. I have a vague recollection of a hospital setting and of everyone being called she. I wonder if that's a different story, or I just imagined it?
My main problem with a lot of stories about gender is that everyone seems to assume that (much like sexuality) it's a spectrum that revolves around two poles (male and female, with some blending in the middle). Like asexuality, which is outside the gay/straight binary, the possibility of not having a gender at all seems to be forgotten or disregarded. What I like about the Murderbot Diaries so much is that at least there the protag is allowed to state very firmly that for them gender is inapplicable.
I mean, yeah, people are going to gender you based on their own societal expectations, but it would be nice to have it understood that sometimes your own internal feeling of your own gender comes up with an error/not installed, and that's okay.
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Date: 2021-06-30 04:17 pm (UTC)From:My main problem with a lot of stories about gender is that everyone seems to assume that (much like sexuality) it's a spectrum that revolves around two poles (male and female, with some blending in the middle). Like asexuality, which is outside the gay/straight binary, the possibility of not having a gender at all seems to be forgotten or disregarded. What I like about the Murderbot Diaries so much is that at least there the protag is allowed to state very firmly that for them gender is inapplicable.
I mean, yeah, people are going to gender you based on their own societal expectations, but it would be nice to have it understood that sometimes your own internal feeling of your own gender comes up with an error/not installed, and that's okay.