IN SUPPORT OF SCIENCE FICTIONAL SOLUTIONS TO THE ONE OF THE KEY ISSUES OF OUR DAY

I remember when 

I was taken back

reading Joanna Russ' The Female Man

in my mid-teens, 

a strike against

assumptions I realized

I hadn't known I held,

that the gendered people

didn't think as I thought all did

and that nor had I,

that my belief

that all were the same,

not even yin and yang

but primordial unity

in somewhat different

moulds but all the same

underneath the guises

of gender and age,

that this belief

was wrong

and people divided,

divergent and alien,

and now in

these bleak years

when men show their worst again, 

now I think that if and when

men are poison

and that naive

vision of people of our species

being just people unreachable,

give them,

give us,

poison

and liberate

yourself,

this species.

Science does wonders.

I'm sure it can let

one half live

without

its rotting Siamese

corpse.

28.04.2026