Cami wrote
The interesting part (for me) about _Gate to Women's Country_ was the
secret that it wasn't the warriors begetting children, but the gentle
men that the women had let back into their cities and who supposedly
lived with the women's families as "servants". When I found that out near
the end of the book I was genuinely surprised. I really liked the idea that
the women really didn't want to get rid of men entirely, that they were
willing to let men back into their cities and their lives as long as the men
behaved themselves.
I liked it that the women were really having relationships with men who didn't
fit the macho stereotype, but I was very uneasy about the idea that what made
the distinction was genetic rather than (at least in part) socialisation and
child-rearing practices. Though given a society which (apparently) valued
militaristic manhood to the extent this one did, the men who did reject that
ideal would have been particularly strong and brave in ways beyond the merely
physical.
I think we may have had this discussion before (or was it about her exclusion
of homosexuality as a potential by making it also genetic and correctable in
utero?)
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
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