Status Updates From The Umbrella (Penguin Archive)

is the umbrella a metaphor for homosexuality?

Does Egon know what he wants? He is another machine--a man--who walks briskly through the rain, believing that there is no need to question or doubt. That the growing entropy within him is caused by forces without rather than within. That cruelty and anger and liquor shall be his reprieve from suffering.

Reading the titular story.
A tale of human entropy. A child--a girl--built with steps in mind, who wandered along them without allowing or being allowed to question. What is she? What does she want? What is the root of these desires and their outcomes? A machine--a girl--does not question. She proceeds to womanhood and wifehood and motherhood without question. Trodding through the rain without even an umbrella.