Well, not sure what to think about it. I guess on one hand it's kinda reflective of human nature, but on the other hand the people in it are really fuckstupid.
While the semi-feminisation is certainly an option for a short time the resulting dystopia should have been obvious to everyone. I also don't see why the women allow this crap to happen. There have to be at least as many of them in the reservation as are genetic males outside.
So why the hell don't they leave? Or build themselves some weapons to start a revolution?
It's like they were imported straight from Gor or something.
As a dystopic story it's a bit of a failure. The scenario is too unlikely to be scary. It takes two radical events to come into fruition. First: most women need to die. Second: society needs to react really stupid (sex change operations wouldn't be that expensive if they'd actually become a mass operation. It's simple economics.) and do this stupid reservation/m2shemale conversion program.
It's a bit like a dystopia on a steampunk base. First some bacteria would need to eat all oil and radioactive materials. Second society needed to make really stupid decisions.
Well, obviously we disagree - I liked it, but I've always had a soft spot for TG fiction that works on a global scale, and which tries to envision societies with entirely different gender rules/roles. However, as for why the women let this happen? Firstly, they're outnumbered 20:1, secondly, they're trapped in hermetically-sealed communities under constant surveillance so getting weapons is exceeding difficult, thirdly, the majority of them are heavily pregnant most of the time, and fourthly, they believe that the government are working on a cure for the disease that wiped almost all the women out. The best strategy they have would be more like forming a union - refusing to breed unless certain criteria were met (whatever those criteria would be). As for the changes to the outside world? There, I think you have more of a point.Even after a massive crisis like the death of nearly half the global population, people are still going to cling to old gender roles. And you're probably at least part right about the economics of mass sex changes. Realistically, I suppose society would fragment - some men would become pre-op transexuals, as in the story, some would just stay lonely, some would stay male but seek male partners, etc. However, I think you're being a little unfair: all fiction requires suspension of disbelief, and in a story like this, looking too closely at how a new social order came about isn't really playing fair- like criticising sci-fi for it's poor grasp of physics (sound in space, gravity on space-ships, lack of time dialation in intergalactic travel). The point is to think about the social dynamics this world creates, and... well, I liked it anyway. To each hir own...
hmmm i think just maybe i am in the wrong time just imagine a time when boy's could and can be accepted chaging into girl's and it would no longer be thought of as weird like it still is now
oh oh i want to go and be in that time instead and than i could change myself at long last into a girlie and it would just finally be the normal thing to be doing i want breast and a pussy vagina to oh my yes yes yes please i've just so alway's wanted to be feminine! female!
Well, not sure what to think about it. I guess on one hand it's kinda reflective of human nature, but on the other hand the people in it are really fuckstupid.
ReplyDeleteWhile the semi-feminisation is certainly an option for a short time the resulting dystopia should have been obvious to everyone. I also don't see why the women allow this crap to happen. There have to be at least as many of them in the reservation as are genetic males outside.
So why the hell don't they leave? Or build themselves some weapons to start a revolution?
It's like they were imported straight from Gor or something.
As a dystopic story it's a bit of a failure. The scenario is too unlikely to be scary. It takes two radical events to come into fruition.
First: most women need to die.
Second: society needs to react really stupid (sex change operations wouldn't be that expensive if they'd actually become a mass operation. It's simple economics.) and do this stupid reservation/m2shemale conversion program.
It's a bit like a dystopia on a steampunk base. First some bacteria would need to eat all oil and radioactive materials. Second society needed to make really stupid decisions.
Well, obviously we disagree - I liked it, but I've always had a soft spot for TG fiction that works on a global scale, and which tries to envision societies with entirely different gender rules/roles.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as for why the women let this happen? Firstly, they're outnumbered 20:1, secondly, they're trapped in hermetically-sealed communities under constant surveillance so getting weapons is exceeding difficult, thirdly, the majority of them are heavily pregnant most of the time, and fourthly, they believe that the government are working on a cure for the disease that wiped almost all the women out. The best strategy they have would be more like forming a union - refusing to breed unless certain criteria were met (whatever those criteria would be).
As for the changes to the outside world? There, I think you have more of a point.Even after a massive crisis like the death of nearly half the global population, people are still going to cling to old gender roles. And you're probably at least part right about the economics of mass sex changes. Realistically, I suppose society would fragment - some men would become pre-op transexuals, as in the story, some would just stay lonely, some would stay male but seek male partners, etc. However, I think you're being a little unfair: all fiction requires suspension of disbelief, and in a story like this, looking too closely at how a new social order came about isn't really playing fair- like criticising sci-fi for it's poor grasp of physics (sound in space, gravity on space-ships, lack of time dialation in intergalactic travel). The point is to think about the social dynamics this world creates, and... well, I liked it anyway. To each hir own...
hmmm i think just maybe i am in the wrong time just imagine a time when boy's could and can be accepted chaging into girl's and it would no longer be thought of as weird like it still is now
ReplyDeleteoh oh i want to go and be in that time instead and than i could change myself at long last into a girlie and it would just finally be the normal thing to be doing i want breast and a pussy vagina to oh my yes yes yes please i've just so alway's wanted to be feminine! female!