In the Left Hand of Darkness , Genly Ai struggles are mostly based on sex. He doesn't fully understand on how the Genethenians are who they are because they have no sex on who is a female or a male. The world of Gethen is really different from his due to Gethenians having no gender and Genly finds it hard to understand them. For, example when Genly refers to Estraven as womanly as he speaks and Genly seems to see him as a woman . Genly is conflicted by the actions , personalities and traits of the Gethenians for having no sex. In other words Genly find himself confused at times on how he should really treat the Gethenians for not knowing on what to call the Gethenians. The Gethenians seem to have no facial characteristics which I think could be a major problem in which Genly could actually feel comfortable around to to talk to. He soon later knows that Gethenians experience to be a male or a female is during kemmer. Overall, Genly struggles seems to be by the sex and that affects him.
- Vanessa A.
yes, i agree that as a human Genly has lived his life knowing that there is only two genders: women and Men. With that information, it has cause him to grow in a sexist mentality.Only referring the Gethenians as either Male or Female. struggle so much in not being able to accept and understand that these aliens have no solid concept of genders roles. which has help there society prosper and live happily without war. On the other hand, we on earth have always been sexist towards each gender and building wars against each other and crimes because of the hatred and bias mentality of not having equality. which has not helped us at all as humans. its normal for us to see women as women and men as men but we have to Genly as a human can show us how we are towards one another. Not being able to understand each others. gender or not, this shows us how we are teaching each and everyone and making it hard for Genly to understand the concept of sex with the Gethenians.
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