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Veeeery interesting that you have to CEDE will actively. That's you actively giving up your mental and physical capabilities. Hundreds of thousands of people do it as part of their daily life. It gives the Hierarchy real, tangible, PHYSICAL power over you. Consent of the governed and all that :o

I'm perplexed by this book's conception of gender and race. On the one hand, it's obviously setting up to break down the Clan's gender roles in order to make Ayla a larger figure. At the same time, Alya is clearly a white girl in a nonwhite society. Or is it wrong to characterize the Clan as nonwhite, since they're the dominant society in this area? I wonder if humans in this era actually had gender roles like this.