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Which trope should a human society with completely different genders/societal expectations around them go under?

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Gabriella_Gadfly Since: Dec, 2017 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#1: Feb 22nd 2023 at 1:24:37 AM

I’m thinking of making a trope page for a book I recently read (The Unraveling), but a problem I’m having is how to categorize the gender system. It’s a rigid gender system but the genders aren’t male or female. It would probably be suited for bizarre alien culture/bizarre alien sexes if they were *actually* aliens instead of humans. But I’m not sure non-heteronormative society fits, at least for this aspect, either. From what I could tell by reading the examples on that page, it seems to be more focused on the sexuality aspect than the gender aspect, and it seems to be mainly used for stuff where things are less rigid than our modern day society, not more rigid. So if anyone has any ideas/advice, I’d really appreciate it!

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#2: Feb 22nd 2023 at 1:31:14 AM

Alien Gender Confusion, Bizarre Alien Sexes, or Speculative Fiction LGBT, maybe? (It sounds similar to Hainish so I'm looking at that for comparison.)

...one of these days I need to TLP a proper page for Social Science Fiction as a missing supertrope to Dystopia.

Ask The Tropers or the Is This An Example thread are better places for questions like this, by the way.

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Feb 22nd 2023 at 9:32:55 AM

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#3: Feb 22nd 2023 at 1:35:08 AM

You should also check out the Writer's Block forum. We might not point you at a specific trope, but we can help hash out ideas.

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#5: Feb 22nd 2023 at 9:03:07 AM

This is a question for Trope Finder (what tropes apply to situation X) and Writer's Block / World Building (how can I write situation X).

Edited by Synchronicity on Feb 22nd 2023 at 11:03:48 AM

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