Masefield Carson describes Dougald Anson as:
"'...an absorbed Khazaki.'" (p. 282)
Old Chiang, one of the ten human beings who had arrived in the Star Ship, has seen the second and third human generations on Khazak play, work and fight with Khazaki and adopt their dress, speech and outlook. Few have tried to remain Terrestrial.
Advanced technology had enabled human civilization to achieve complete sexual equality which, however, is now being lost to Khazaki barbarism. Du-Frere Marie does not care about equality, thinks that a woman should not try to be a man, only wants to cook and keep house for a man and bear his children.
Anson recognizes this as:
"...a typical Khazaki attitude." (p. 285)
Not just Kkazaki: it comes from our past and sf authors have projected it onto more than one alien species.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And whether or not some like it or not, having children and families is still what many women want. They feel no need to be as competitive as males in the "outside" world. Such women feel no need to do or be everything that men do. Iow, there are real and innate differences between the sexes. To deny that is folly that can only lead to much needless and avoidable misery.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
What matters is that women have freedom of choice and of life-style, not that they make any particular choice.
Paul.
Paul: but that planet is -in- the past, effectively speaking.
Kaor, Paul!
Freedom of choice? Yes, but women who want to do as much as possible everything that men do will have to accept that will often come with making hard choices and accepting difficult sacrifices. Choices and sacrifices some, many, will regret.
Ad astra! Sean
It's up to them, though.
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