<![CDATA[Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics]]> John Scalzi has a character in "The Android's Dream" whose gender is never articulated, by avoiding personal pronouns. So you never know if that person's partner is gay or straight.

hitmouse

]]> <![CDATA[Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics]]> I'm reading the Atrocity Archives right now! His characters' struggles with gender roles in the books I read before this (Accelerando and Iron Sunrise) are interesting - but hey, so is the sex. I find the romantic relationships the protagonists wind up entangled in - and yes, it usually seems to be a rather passive process - occasionally baffling, but at least not eye-rollingly dumb or predictable or offensive.

Crash Launching

]]> <![CDATA[Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics]]> I hadn't made the connection between Glasshouse and Steel Beach before... I really loved both books.

In the middle of Iron Sunrise right now... had trouble following it in the beginning but it's all coming together.

engtech

]]> <![CDATA[Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics]]> @emilia: Well in Stross' novel Glasshouse, they literally change sex at the molecular level. Then they struggle with gender roles. So it's both.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics]]> Actually in a sense we gender sex. Specific physical attributes become identified with a particular gender even though such attributes may not be 100% associated with a specific gender.

But that isn't related to my first statement where sex is used uncritically as a synonym to gender.

Emilia

]]> <![CDATA[Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics]]> @emilia: Not so sure you can articulate sex without gender, after all, it's the limitations that are interesting.

the memorexe

]]> <![CDATA[Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics]]> You said that you were going to talk about sex, but focused more on gender. Why?

I feel that there is too much laziness in how sex and gender are used.

Emilia

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