Jul 6, 2024
Our favouite 'sci-fi protagonists from societies with one gender' meet each other:
Breq understands politics enough to hold her own in a conversation with Estraven. She doesn't understand what shifgrethor is, but she doesn't let on. She finds their conversation refreshingly efficient. Estraven leaves the conversation assuming that Breq has a fuckton of shifgrethor.
Seivarden is left trying to talk to Genly. This should be easy. She's dealt with lots of diplomats before. Unfortunately Genly, who has only just barely got the hang of a society with one biological sex and one social gender, is now in a spiralling panic about a society with multiple biological sexes and still only one social gender using feminine pronouns.
