Some people with extreme allergies are stuck in a bubble, but the entire human race is trapped in a bubble. That bubble is gender, and the role it plays in dividing our society. Octavia E. Butler’s explores this concept in her novel “Dawn”.
Butler first demonstrates the walls that gender roles create by switching what humans see as the typical gender roles. The female ooloi are tall, and are not as open and talkative as what is seen as normal. The males have a more approachable nature. The “teachers” are also male. Although Butler flips the roles of male and female, she still introduces the genderless Oankali to show that no matter what traits males and females if humans define themselves as different they cannot create a society that will