2017-10-23 10:57:47 ¶ ● ⬈

dingodad:

> kitschtrolls replied to your post: Anyway the point of my posts about Lord English…

> > i think it’s good to note that in fascist and communist totalitarian societies, gender roles are hyper-realised in expectations and propaganda

> > so forcing those below you into certain roles based on gender roles also stifles their abilities and further limits them, which is why it also makes sense that a gender binary would be forced onto the alternians

> exactly! this is kind of precisely what Porrim was angling at when she talked about this; at least on Beforus (but pretty clearly on Alternia too), the strongly-enforced gender binary acted to suppress and railroad the jadebloods, who are essentially the most powerful caste in physical terms.

> no doubt it works in a very similar way amongst lowbloods.

> #to put it as bluntly as possible

> #it’s hard to put together organised rebellion when you’re always expected to be doing the child-rearing #AND the house-cleaning #AND the cooking

> #which puts the idealisation of butler and handtroll roles for lowbloods in another perspective entirely