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Has anyone read this book? It drove me insane. Once I read American Psycho and despised it because I was missing something. Once I read through part of it again, I got the satire but had no desire to continue reading a book about such pathetic depressing shallow people. So perhaps this is the case to Gate to Women's Country which annoyed me for several reasons-I've only read it one time so I am definetly most likely missing something and I don't want to read it again when I can read HP instead. The fact that they cured homosexuality bugged the crap out of me. The lowly role of the servitors (spoiler) how fair is it that they get to father the children, but do not seem to get to have sex? The warrior men, they were probably the most irratating thing about the book. The whole man as hunter harping on honour thing really aggravates me about feminist literature. And the women end up being so nurturing and wise which just isn't completely realistic. Why did they get to have sex with the women of the village, but were denied the right to have children? How is it fair that they are being eliminated slowly as they try to breed more servitors which just get to be the slaves and not the equals of women. This book is making me hysterical even though it was ages ago since I read it. I really am totally missing something.
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I read that book years ago. I got the impression that the servitors DID in fact get to have sex. I imagined that the women had sex with the warrior types once a year as a front, but in fact were shacking up with the servitors five times a week the rest of the time, as the servitors were their real husbands. I also got the impression that the inferiority/servanthood deal was a front, but maybe I'm just optimistic. In both cases.
It was a disturbing book, though, you're right.
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I always thought the women thought the servitors were too wimpy for sex, so they just did it with the warrior types every two years or one year or something because they thought they were more exiting... I'm not sure if they had even relationships with men So depressing.
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Most of the wise, smarter women preferred their servitor men over the warrior men I think. I have a feeling most women gradually preferred the servitors as they got older and more mature. And yes, I figured there were tons and tons of happy woman/servitor couples all over town.
I actually liked the book, and thought it had some very interesting points. I was probably a teenager when I read it the first time, though.
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I don't think the book is intended as a utopian novel, though I'm aware some people choose to read it that way.
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