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Pronoun Choices
And, based on that last story, it looks like I’ve elected to use the Egan-style ve/ver/vis pronouns for the neuter gender (the friend, although it never comes up, was a kaliatar; a neuter member of a...
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Domestic Technology
Another interesting article here (hat tip: Eclipse Phase blog), concerning the gender distribution of the future, and in particular its technologies, complete with real-world examples of the...
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Gendered Pronouns
As you may have noticed from here, here, and here, I appear to have settled on using the ve/vis pronouns to represent the eldraeic neuter (but animate) gender, and the hse/hsis set to represent the...
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Ethnographical Questionnaire: IV. Questions of Family
So, I’ve recently been working on answering the “Ethnographical Questionnaire” set of worldbuilding questions for my conculture – not quite this version, but another version by the same person, I think...
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Trope-a-Day: Easy Sex Change
Easy Sex Change: Reinstantiation (see Body Surf) into a body of the appropriate sex, if available, will do it instantly; meanwhile, if that’s not available or desirable, a day or two spent in a medical...
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Trope-a-Day: Elfeminate
Elfeminate: On the one hand, played straight. If there’s one thing that can be said for certain about the eldrae on first glance, it is that they are an extremely pretty species – by virtue of cultural...
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Trope-a-Day: Gender Bender
Gender Bender: Fairly trivial to achieve with Empire-level biotech, whether done by growing an opposite-sex bioshell (or, y’know, other sex; it’s not like hermaphrodite and neuter haven’t been...
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Trope-a-Day: Gender Blender Name
Gender Blender Name: There weren’t all that many of these in historical times, but in the modern era, there are a great many – or at least, names adjusted such that you can change their gender with a...
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Trope-a-Day: Gender is No Object
Gender Is No Object: Played almost straight with the eldrae, due to any and all of: lesser sexual dimorphism; population demographics that made it impractical to waste much of the capacity of half the...
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Trope-a-Day: Gendercide
Gendercide: Happened, incompletely (two-thirds of the female population killed), to the shan kari, when their learning robots generalized their anti-self-replication police-code to things that weren’t...
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Trope-a-Day: Opposite Sex Clone
Opposite Sex Clone: Fairly trivial, for an Imperial level of bioengineering (X-doubling, made easier by earlier eugeneering out of bad recessives, or synthetic X), and done (a) on a relatively...
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Trope-a-Day: Men Are The Expendable Gender
Men Are The Expendable Gender: Averted in both ways. Firstly, of course, because greater valxíjir and lesser sexual dimorphism with regards to the distribution of various things, etc., produces a very...
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Do I Consider Myself A Feminist Writer?
…is the latest question to come through the anonymous message box. Oh, boy. “I don’t discuss my process.” Oh, wait, I do discuss my process? I’ve discussed my process often, in the past? Well, crap....
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Trope-a-Day: One Gender Race
One Gender Race: There are a few of these, most of them having got that way via their evolutionary process never having figured out sex, or natural hermaphroditism, or merely looking this way because...
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Trope-a-Day: Spaceship Girl
Spaceship Girl: Every time a female-presenting digisapience uses a starship as a cybershell, yes. Of course, they can equally well be the resident operating intelligence of a habitat, or other vehicle...
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Trope-a-Day: Stay in the Kitchen
(No fic today, sorry… for reasons of pie. Urp.) Stay in the Kitchen: Averted in the Empire, where Gender Is No Object. No-one there would think of saying it – and when someone from elsewhere says it,...
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No discussion of approaches to gender in the Associated Worlds would be complete without mention of the peculiar customs of the mourcalt of the Trailing Assembly. The mourcalt‘s biology gave them an...
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