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There’s nothing particularly gay about it aside from a few instances spread across the series. Why attempt to poison a well that has such a devoted following?
by huytersd 3y ago
There’s nothing particularly gay about it aside from a few instances spread across the series. Why attempt to poison a well that has such a devoted following?
- at_a_remove 3y agoThat's literally what "the kids" call it. You can look that phrase up.
- GeoAtreides 3y agoThe Culture doesn't have gendered pronouns and you can change your sex by thinking really hard (really); there's a social expectation that each individual should sire a child and be pregnant with one during their lifetime. Most people in the XXI century would agree that's at least a bit gay :)
- huytersd 3y agoOf course there are pronouns, that’s how everyone is referred to (he, she, him, her etc.). Every book in the series uses them, even for some of the minds. There is an ability for an actual sex change, the genetic changes for which can be kicked of by wanting to change. No expectation whatsoever. That whole sequence is touched on in one book for about 3 pages and this is a series with 12+ books.
- Modified3019 3y agoIt’s a meme phrase, which The Culture series actually fits extremely well. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxu... Basically the phrase humorously sums up explorations of what happens when everything is so advanced that among other things, someone can just flippantly choose however they want their body to be. Which means lots of things that we intuitively consider as static go right out the airlock.