Timeline for What's up with sex and pronouns in Ann Leckie's Provenance?
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| Jan 17, 2020 at 10:27 | answer | added | Whisper | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 23, 2019 at 22:31 | history | edited | Stormblessed |
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| Mar 2, 2019 at 23:45 | comment | added | Radhil | @Adamant - for the Ancillary books, it's possible there's genetic tinkering (clones are present). The primary driver was the physical gender distinction was utterly irrelevant, at least as far as language went... and then it doubled down with the protagonist, who not only had no language reference but no personal reference to gender ('self' gets complicated with this character). | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 19:57 | answer | added | Matt Gutting | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1101905053508685826 | ||
| Mar 2, 2019 at 3:06 | comment | added | Adamant | Besides which, it would be easy enough to define sex in a way that would produce more than two sexes or a even a continuum without any actual changes. For instance, is XXX the same sex as XX? By convention it is, but that's mainly to match definitions created before DNA imaging. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 3:02 | comment | added | Adamant | I haven't read Ancillary Justice, so it's possible that there's some genetic tinkering going on, but the existence of three different pronouns need not have much to do with physical sex (organs and chromosomes and whatnot), but rather psychological gender. Someone can be agender or genderfluid and have XX or XY chromosomes, for instance, and might prefer to go by a neuter pronoun. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 2:58 | history | asked | user2490 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |