Posted by: niicocole | March 25, 2009

feminist?

i dont think le guins full intention of writing this story was to prove the inequality of gender. although she chose to make up people with no specific gender, i dont think this necessarily means she wanted to send her feminist message out.  i dont think she really is a feminist because she does choose to write about a non permanent gender. being both genders  make the people in this story equal. i think she just made that one of her examples of the many differences in our world and i think she just wanted to prove a point, saying that women and men are equal no matter what, including their personalities. she still calls them “he” because thats the general pronoun that everyone uses. overall, i think her point in writing “the left hand of darkness” is to show the contrasting objects or personalities in the world which balance out each other, as does the ying and yang. just because she uses one example of equality between men and women, does not mean she is a feminist.


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