Yeah. Though I do think there is an argument to be made that we're
both reading this from the wrong angle by poking holes in the
worldbuilding. The idea that this future in which the book is written
is basically like our world, but with gender roles flipped, is so
obviously absurd that it takes itself out of the realm of fiction and
into, IDK, Swiftian allegory? Something else. Don't get me wrong, I
don't think it's successful as allegory either, and reading it that
way actually makes it much more nihilist and much grimmer about the
inherent violence in humanity. But it takes a lot of my criticisms off
the table.
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Date: 2018-04-15 06:31 pm (UTC)Yeah. Though I do think there is an argument to be made that we're both reading this from the wrong angle by poking holes in the worldbuilding. The idea that this future in which the book is written is basically like our world, but with gender roles flipped, is so obviously absurd that it takes itself out of the realm of fiction and into, IDK, Swiftian allegory? Something else. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's successful as allegory either, and reading it that way actually makes it much more nihilist and much grimmer about the inherent violence in humanity. But it takes a lot of my criticisms off the table.