• Ideology [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Oh for sure. What I mean is that "gender traitors" in Atwood's work are rareish by virtue of being exterminated (I think there are lesbian characters but not too much queerness) and the work being a 'product of her time.' By extension, people who don't have the vocabulary or impetus to be inclusive don't have a pop-culture media property to push the language on them (fans would be quick to meme a transman character if he existed).

    It's a vehicle for focusing on their preconceived notions. Libs and Radlibs are notoriously educated by fiction works, unfortunately.