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Originally Posted by issybird
The problem inherent in this, whether east or west, is that it's not gender bending, it's bolstering the status quo. The purport of the book seems to be to question our notions of gender, but the underpinnings do the contrary.
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I can’t agree with you on this,
issybird. The whole point of the yin-yang symbol is that the opposites are indivisible and make up a whole. Genly comes to see that the Gethenians personify the symbol, even if he still uses terms like man and he when referring to them.