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