It's straightforwardly dystopian by most people's standards and I can only read Jemisin as being ironic or at least intentionally provocative with it It's an attempt to mimic the deliberately confrontational tone of the original Omelas story that I'm not sure came off
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Also no, I don't read Tiptree as having an uncomplicatedly triumphal radfem POV in this story As evidenced by her attachment to her male Tiptree persona irl She finds the caricatured feminine utopia the plague creates as alienating as the narrator does
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No actually looking it up almost all human beings died of the plague, and the reason only cis women survived is only a small number of bloodlines were immune and they could only reproduce by gestating their own clones
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