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Science FictionSheri Tepper's Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Although I read this fantastic novel years ago, I was recently reminded of it by Judith A. Little’s Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: utopias and dystopias.
At the end of the novel, five options for human reproduction are presented:
1. Only partners for life will be able to reproduce, and only once every decade. 2. Parthenogenesis, with a few males born every eighth or ninth generation. 3. Heterosexual reproduction, but no woman will ever conceive unless she chooses to conceive. 4. Heterosexual reproduction, but with a short period of fertility. 5. As it has been.
What would you choose and why?
To be fair, "just explain that you really want to" is how they get most of what they want.
And if his male privilege is denied, then he can throw a big screeching fit about lack of inclusion.
That's not fair.
It's also 'because I'll be sad if you don't let me'
Along with either an implied or explicit threat to seek Canadian healthcare.
Not to mention the fact that he wants to play a woman who was, you know, decapitated for not giving birth to a son who lived
Dude doesn’t care that she was an actual human being and a victim of femicide and misogyny. Don’t care how long ago it was, she was a real person who’s memory matters.
Though back then, only men in drag were allowed to be on stage sooo.....
It used to be that in principle I woudn't necessarily object to men playing women's parts, if they auditioned and were actually good for the part. I can remember seeing a fantastic male Lady Bracknell back in the day. But now, like with any other male gender nonconformity, because of genderwoo I wouldn't be OK with it, even if he actually was good for the part - because he'd be making us lie, and because he'd have taken a part from a woman.
Because that could be the only thing possibly in the way of him getting one of the leads in his school musical.
Lmfao, imagine walking into a job interview and just saying "can I have the job? I really want it." These people are so entitled.