this is not a journal title

i'm pretty hostile to Card's social and political views generally, including his views on gender, but i'm not sure how any one portrayal of a single fictional species can have the weight you're attaching to it, in the absence of a broader sense of the author's overall approach to these things. i mean, there's nothing to prevent a species from having these kinds of extreme sex differences, and exploring the possibilities of such a species in a science-fiction setting doesn't need to be any kind of straightforward statement about the gender politics of the human population - the whole point of having fictional alien races is that we can explore ways things could in principle work, but don't among us humans.