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herbert’s gender essentialist views become a bit more concrete. diving into the reasons for leto’s female army, we get a bunch of odd stereotypes of women that are based on absolutely nothing, but at least finally give us some insight towards how herbert thinks about gender. gender essentialism this blatant is still an awful literary tool, but at least some of isn’t so misogynistic.