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I personally have the annoying feeling that the \\\"most liberal\\\" characters in the books still aren\\\'t liberal enough for me. Ultra-liberal Cordelia sure did give up her career in a hurry to play housewife to a strong male, there. (Okay, so she wasn\\\'t exactly welcome on Beta Colony at that point, but still -- in all the years after, for all her complaining about Barrayar culture, never once does she say \\\"gee, I feel tempted to stop playing second fiddle to my husband and feel like commanding a starship instead\\\" or something). People throughout the \\\'verse sure do go on and on about how \\\"misguided\\\" the creation of Betan hermaphrodites was, even though the hermaphrodites themselves (that we meet) seem happy enough with their nature. People sure do have a tendency to raise their eyebrows at any mention of homosexuality. For all the female soldiers we meet, there sure still seem to be plenty of thoroughly male-dominated careers.
Ultimately, I get over it by reminding myself that a lot of these books were written in the 1980s and then-abouts, and that that\\\'s the time the \\\'verse as a whole was created. The \\\"most liberal\\\" characters are the most liberal \\\'\\\'that average people in the 1980s would tolerate reading about\\\'\\\'. FairForItsDay, in short.
Needless to say, Beta Colony is the only place in this \\\'verse where I\\\'d feel comfortable living -- and you really get the sense it was set up as some sort of straw-liberal \\\"political correctness gone mad!\\\" world that we\\\'re supposed to see as being just as silly as conservative Barrayar, in its own way...
Ultimately, I get over it by reminding myself that a lot of these books were written in the 1980s and then-abouts, and that that\\\'s the time the \\\'verse as a whole was created. The \\\"most liberal\\\" characters are the most liberal \\\'\\\'that average people in the 1980s would tolerate reading about\\\'\\\'. FairForItsDay, in short.
Needless to say, Beta Colony is the only place in this \\\'verse where I\\\'d feel comfortable living -- and you really get the sense it was set up as some sort of straw-liberal \\\"political correctness gone mad!\\\" world that we\\\'re supposed to see as being just as silly as conservative Barrayar, in its own way...
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I personally have the annoying feeling that the \\\"most liberal\\\" characters in the books still aren\\\'t liberal enough for me. Ultra-liberal Cordelia sure did give up her career in a hurry to play housewife to a strong male, there. (Okay, so she wasn\\\'t exactly welcome on Beta Colony at that point, but still -- in all the years after, for all her complaining about Barrayar culture, never once does she say \\\"gee, I feel tempted to stop playing second fiddle to my husband and feel like commanding a starship instead\\\" or something). People throughout the \\\'verse sure do go on and on about how \\\"misguided\\\" the creation of Betan hermaphrodites was, even though the hermaphrodites themselves (that we meet) seem happy enough with their nature. People sure do have a tendency to raise their eyebrows at any mention of homosexuality. For all the female soldiers we meet, there sure still seem to be plenty of thoroughly male-dominated careers.
Ultimately, I get over it by reminding myself that a lot of these books were written in the 1980s and then-abouts, and that that\\\'s the time the \\\'verse as a whole was created. The \\\"most liberal\\\" characters are the most liberal \\\'\\\'that most people in the 1980s would tolerate reading about\\\'\\\'. FairForItsDay, in short.
Needless to say, Beta Colony is the only place in this \\\'verse where I\\\'d feel comfortable living -- and you really get the sense it was set up as some sort of straw-liberal \\\"political correctness gone mad!\\\" world that we\\\'re supposed to see as being just as silly as conservative Barrayar, in its own way...
Ultimately, I get over it by reminding myself that a lot of these books were written in the 1980s and then-abouts, and that that\\\'s the time the \\\'verse as a whole was created. The \\\"most liberal\\\" characters are the most liberal \\\'\\\'that most people in the 1980s would tolerate reading about\\\'\\\'. FairForItsDay, in short.
Needless to say, Beta Colony is the only place in this \\\'verse where I\\\'d feel comfortable living -- and you really get the sense it was set up as some sort of straw-liberal \\\"political correctness gone mad!\\\" world that we\\\'re supposed to see as being just as silly as conservative Barrayar, in its own way...
