Olivia’s Reviews > Herland > Status Update

Even though we had marveled at their culture, sophistication, and technological advances, when it came time to marry we *obviously* thought we’d be able to convince these women to do everything our way! Duh! Even though we’ve observed their staunch independence and amazing intelligence it’s shocking they didn’t just abandon all of their beliefs because we told them romance required it

These women didn’t suddenly become powerful when all the men died. Women have always been powerful. The absence of men just created a space for women to be powerful

“These women had pockets in surprising number and variety. They were in all their garments,”

I love that in her feminist imagining of a utopia, women’s clothing had better pockets.

Me when I go to a new country and they have different ideas and a different culture. This book is so much fun! These men are so shocked to arrive in a matriarchal society and not immediately be worshipped. I love that our narrator considers himself a sociologist but doesn’t seem fully capable of understanding that as a different society these women wouldn’t have the same ideas of men as colonialism would have it

“…butting into an unknown country without any sort of a guard or defense. We seemed to think if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women — why, they would be no obstacles at all.”

This is a civilized country, there must be men! Also this book is very good so far, I put off starting it because I wanted to read the introduction by another author but that always seems to slow me down or keep me from actually reading

Unrelated to my progress on this book but I apologize, I’m about to blow up your feed adding stuff to my TBR