Aisha
From the get go I could tell the reds were British working class coded, an attempt was made, however it was so painfully American. Don’t know if it’s just me but yanks tend to romanticise the aesthetics of this group and reading the earlier chapters was just the whole ‘Irish are the most oppressed’ but now they are too in the future! I really didn’t like how the author was still feeding into traditional gender dynamics when this is set 1000 years later in mars, and you’re still writing about how men are only the ones providing, working intense physical jobs, and the women get to be domestic trad wives. Perhaps I’m being a bit hyperbolic but it’s just subtle narratives like this that ruin this book for me. And if you’re going to write a book about oppressed class, I’m confused about the choice to make this post racial, as if the struggles here don’t mimic exactly what enslaved people went through, or are going through today. That’s just my opinion from DNF-ing halfway through, just couldn’t continue reading unfortunately.
From the get go I could tell the reds were British working class coded, an attempt was made, however it was so painfully American. Don’t know if it’s just me but yanks tend to romanticise the aesthetics of this group and reading the earlier chapters was just the whole ‘Irish are the most oppressed’ but now they are too in the future! I really didn’t like how the author was still feeding into traditional gender dynamics when this is set 1000 years later in mars, and you’re still writing about how men are only the ones providing, working intense physical jobs, and the women get to be domestic trad wives. Perhaps I’m being a bit hyperbolic but it’s just subtle narratives like this that ruin this book for me. And if you’re going to write a book about oppressed class, I’m confused about the choice to make this post racial, as if the struggles here don’t mimic exactly what enslaved people went through, or are going through today. That’s just my opinion from DNF-ing halfway through, just couldn’t continue reading unfortunately.