I'd personally like to see more gender non-conforming roles in societies.

In a society with magic or space tech, why does there need to be a coded gender for certain jobs?

This goes for 'character classes' too. I'd love to see more healer archetypes that are cis male, or wizard types that are black or brown without relying on stereotypes.

I'd also like to see more of that in occupations too. Why not have a union of earth magic construction workers who happen to be mostly women in one city?

What about the rest of you? What cool things would you live to see in sci-fi/fantasy?

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      The Hyperion Cantos depicts a world where everybody goes by "M." instead of "Mr." or "Mrs." but otherwise there's still a clear binary gender system of men and women. I'd love to read a book where gender is chosen later in life if at all.

      OH, there is an episode of Lloyd in Space called "Neither Boy Nor Girl" where a teenage alien is revealed to be nonbinary, and is expected to literally choose their sex at a certain age. After the boys and girls in their class go berserk trying to steer them toward one gender over the other, the character decides they won't reveal which sex they picked and will continue identifying as genderless. Pretty solid for a 90's Disney show.