The story of "When It Changed" talks about a society of women that first have an encounter with men. It's sort of weird that there's no need for men for women to reproduce. Where a man and his wife and children go off into a place where there haven't been men for six hundred years. The women talk about how rough and heavy these men are and they have weird customs like shaking hands. I think it's odd yet, interesting how women have learned to survive and reproduce without men.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Gender and Sexuality
The story "Day Million" talks about what the future is going to be like for the human race. Its not a regular love story because it talks about a "girl" who really isn't a girl because she's actually a boy and a boy who really isn't a boy because he's a 187 years old. Not to mention that they also don't look like a boy or a girl would. The female looks like an avatar that lives underwater and the guy looks like a green or blue Arnold Schwartzenegger with 7 fingers. They also don't make love like a normal couple would. The female was actually a male but no one could tell unless you really went into her anatomy.
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Flavia: straight and to the point! I agree that Day Million was totally off the gears when it came to character descriptions. Dora and Don might be the typical cliché for when opposites attract. They couldn't be farther from the word "similar." But I believe that maybe Frederick was trying to play us readers to a certain extent. He wanted us to take a look at gender roles and the cause & effect of sexual preference. It is similar to nature vs. nurture. How can we express one's right to live a particular sexual desire in a world with so much discrimination? Dora was a man at birth, but through technologies advancements, he was reassigned to be female, thus, elevating the hardships that come with identity conflict and self-fulfilling desires. She basically got a free ride to be designed to her mind’s preferences, which, to me, is an interesting concept in today's society. The human points of intersection that he portrays in this love story are still very relevant. The whole picture is still about a love story, albeit it’s an alien love story, and technology advancement. It is the entertaining side of looking at different perspectives of life on other worlds. An interesting read overall! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see you move beyond summarizing the stories. Use the blog post questions to help you.
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