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[–]reader 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (4 children)

"-Everyone is a lesbian." Politician lesbian dystopia or are they genetically modified? "-The women spontaneously get pregnant and give birth to things their ship/world needs." Do they manage to kill rapist ships and end slavery? No lesbian society would have forced pregnancy. Is is classic straight woman fantasy.

[–]mangofruit 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I read it and absolutely hated it. I had such high hopes but there wasn't a single character I liked. Also maybe it was just the fact that the universe was obviously nothing like ours but I really didn't connect with any of the characters as lesbians because how can you really be a "lesbian society" when there are only other women? At that point it's just....a society entirely made up of women? It's not clear that the ships are part of the reproduction aspect either so the pregnancies are more of a random thing that just happens because even in this universe women must provide for the population. Honestly it all felt so contrived and pointless I skimmed through a fair bit of the middle, maybe if an actual lesbian had written the book it wouldn't have read so shittily but I definitely felt it was a weird straight lady fantasy.

[–]VioletRemi 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

For some reason, your description reminded me about one polish "comedy" movie "Sexmission: The New Amazons".

There was nuclear apocalypse, and only women survived in bunker. They found a way to clone/produce children without men involved. Two main heroes are men who were frozen in cryocapsula before the nukes happened, and they are awakening now in this world. They are finding out that all community is run by man crossdresser who is afraid to come out as man, and afraid to say to all the women in bunker that outside all nuclear fallout is gone and it is possible to live there. Main heroes "saving" the day by spreading the truth about outer world and by adding "cloning now will produce men in 50% instead of women 100%".

It is comedy, but for me it is funny for all the wrong rasons. Not for reasons authors intended. And reasons are - it describes current situation with women rights and women spaces. Crossdressing men are trying to control women, and then other men are "helping" or "saving" lesbian/women communities by infiltrating and "now 50% there are men". And funniest part of this all, is that movie was released in 1984. Orwellian "ha ha".

[–]VioletRemi 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Heh, I literally thought the same!

[–]writerlylesbian[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, it's pretty normalised for the women to feel sexual attraction towards each other, so they're definitely not political lesbians. There's a lot about the origins of the world that are left obscure, and the characters themselves don't fully know how/where they came from. It seems more like they just evolved that way.

The relationship with the ship is pretty much symbiotic, so it's not really a 'violent rapist' situation. Having said that, the women do have options if they don't want the pregnancies, or don't want to get pregnant at all. But the ability/potential of women to be able to birth new life is kinda an important part of the novel, so I guess if that's not appealing then it's probably best to steer clear. And yes, part of the point of the novel is that the relationship between the women and the ships have deteriorated, so it's not clear whether the weird pregnancies would be happening otherwise (very few of them give birth to children, for example).