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   crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp)'s status on Monday, 14-Jul-2025 02:27:18 JST crows call me breadlady

   quietly choosing to not talk shit about the left hand of darkness, one of le guin's earliest ventures into feminism

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 14-Jul-2025 02:27:17 JST clarity flowers

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     @garbados imo left hand of darkness isn’t even really about gender (you can read her saying that the first and most important element was “a planet with no concept of warfare” and the gender thing just emerged out of that).

     Le Guin is rough around the edges in many ways but also tbh some of her essays on womanhood have really shaken up my own assumptions and self-perceptions.

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     crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp)'s status on Monday, 14-Jul-2025 02:27:18 JST crows call me breadlady

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     obviously i love le guin but i must ask, can cis people really understand gender?