Player of Games has a main character who’s considered weird because they have zero interest in genderfluidity, because being fluid is just the absolute norm
‘I feel you want to… take me,’ Yay said, ‘like a piece, like an area. To be had; to be… possessed.’ Suddenly she looked very puzzled. ‘There’s something very… I don’t know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You’ve never changed sex, have you?’ He shook his head. ‘Or slept with a man?’ Another shake. ‘I thought so,’ Yay said. ‘You’re strange, Gurgeh.’ She drained her glass.
and no stigma attached to biomodding yourself, full rights for AI or creative use of internally produced brain drugs
any member of the Culture would be seen as a eugenics-war style abomination by the Federation
Player of Games has a main character who’s considered weird because they have zero interest in genderfluidity, because being fluid is just the absolute norm