The thing is it reads as science fiction pessimism of a school I'm really fine with but it rubs me the wrong way to not see it treated as pessimism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Tiptree's Houston, Houston, Do You Read is a chillingly effective story about utopia being created by a plague that kills everyone with a Y chromosome
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
But it only works because it knows its premise is objectively horrifying and its whole POV is from the viewpoint of the one man who comes through the portal and gets euthanized at the end despite constantly trying to be a good guy, because he's infected
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @Nymphomachy
It's not horrifying because half of the world's population dying of a plague is inherently horrifying?
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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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Replying to @adrienneleigh @Nymphomachy
No, the horror of creating a utopia by just straight up murdering all the people infected with "toxic" behaviors is still horrifying no matter what
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @Nymphomachy
The initial plague in HHDYR was an accident, the outcome where they decide to protect their society the only option is to euthanize the three men is the frightening tragedy
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(And really if you look at it through this lens the idea of "original sin" here that Jemisin also uses its pretty misogynistic when Tiptree applies it to gender One surviving real man is a serpent the women's gentle Eden can't possibly resist if he's allowed to flourish)
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