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Relatively low-key? Practically every character is a woman! The handful of men you find throughout the text are few, one-dimensional and mostly negatively portrayed. Especially the humans. Frankly, from what I read, it seemed not just plausible but obvious that pre-story humanity was organized along strictly matriarchical lines, with every officer, politician and frankly every named character being a woman.
Hell, event he machines use feminine pronouns and display feminine personalities.
If I had the whole text in one file, I'd just search for "he" VS "she" and compare the numbers.
It's not the sex scenes that bother me but what this reverse-Bechdel-test-situation says about the author.
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