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[darkelf105]

My head feels like it going to dance right off of my shoulders and then explode. I feel so gross, like a snot factory. I'm HUNGRY, dammit. This losing weight thing sucks. I just wanna cram like a whole small Yala's pizza down my gullet.....but I got a veggie sub from Subway instead....HUNGRY. HUNGRY HUNGRY. So to alleviate the hunger and the boredom, let us discuss "The Left Hand of Darkness". Since I know people in my book club haven't started reading it, let us look at the premise of the book instead. The society on the planet of Winter is for most of the year, without gender. Then when they go into kemmer (read estrus-like sex stage) they then develop a sex. One becomes male and the other female. Which makes things VERRA interesting because that then means that since it can change each time, a member of the society can be the mother of several children and the father of several others. What do you think this would do to the society? How would things be different. Le Guin's answers to these questions are kinda cool. I was just wondering what peoples on the flist thought about that.

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[rayechu.livejournal.com]

ooooh. Sounds really neat. Hmms I guess it would mirror the sex-changing frogs and fishes a little bit. I would tend to think there would be way less of an issue with homophobia, as you or your lover could change. It would be interesting to see if the amount of crossdressing went up, or if things would tend to be more androgynous.

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

Since the people literally have no sex, they don't do anything that is gendered. So no cross-dressing because that would require a sense of gender and they only have gender when they are in kemmer. Like the people on this world don't have a sex unless they are in kemmer, and since sex is purely biological there is no society imposed gender. It is really kinda cool.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Ah okay. I was thinking more along the lines, if our society became like that.

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah....you are correct. There would be less homophibia. I was wandering how the roles of parent would change.