Val’s Reviews > The Gods Themselves > Status Update

ughhh, the gender politics are re-emerging a bit again - stop it with the gendered intuitionism, asimov

on the other hand, neville barron is such an ass

really enjoying the description of society on the moon - playfulness that *kind of* reminds me of terra ignota?

enjoying the third part (now that we’ve gotten past the weird sexist opening) - reminding me more of foundation

3 genders was interesting (so is the sex and their bodies in general), but the Emotional gender is disappointingly (sexist-classic-scifi-) female-coded - based on the pronouns, exaggerated “not like the others”ness of Dua, bioessentialism to the extreme - “Who could tell what any Emotional felt? They were so different they made left and right seem alike in everything but mind” r=smart m, p=dumb m, e=w