Yes but I mean irl. Organizing around abortion has centered gendered rhetoric that implicitly looks over men, non-binary people, etc - anyone who can get pregnant and therefore anyone who needs abortions.
It's understandable in that the anti-abortion is grounded in misogyny, but it's also something that I would expect to be better among comrades (versus libs), and it honestly really isn't.
Oh for sure. What I mean is that "gender traitors" in Atwood's work are rareish by virtue of being exterminated (I think there are lesbian characters but not too much queerness) and the work being a 'product of her time.' By extension, people who don't have the vocabulary or impetus to be inclusive don't have a pop-culture media property to push the language on them (fans would be quick to meme a transman character if he existed).
It's a vehicle for focusing on their preconceived notions. Libs and Radlibs are notoriously educated by fiction works, unfortunately.
Yes but I mean irl. Organizing around abortion has centered gendered rhetoric that implicitly looks over men, non-binary people, etc - anyone who can get pregnant and therefore anyone who needs abortions.
It's understandable in that the anti-abortion is grounded in misogyny, but it's also something that I would expect to be better among comrades (versus libs), and it honestly really isn't.
Oh for sure. What I mean is that "gender traitors" in Atwood's work are rareish by virtue of being exterminated (I think there are lesbian characters but not too much queerness) and the work being a 'product of her time.' By extension, people who don't have the vocabulary or impetus to be inclusive don't have a pop-culture media property to push the language on them (fans would be quick to meme a transman character if he existed).
It's a vehicle for focusing on their preconceived notions. Libs and Radlibs are notoriously educated by fiction works, unfortunately.
Ah that makes total sense, thanks for explaining it to me