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I am at 85-95% credence that the AI probably could, but the point is that it (its creator) is a chauvinist who doesn't care. The Raadchai are culturally superior with their pristine gloves, tea, weird relationships, and calling everyone "she". Everyone else and their pronouns and other distinctions are uncivilized, disposable material to be assimilated in a process of ruthless colonization. It a shitty dystopian society.
I couldn't decipher was the author making a subtle meta level argument or (more probably) found herself making it while writing an internally consistent treatment a random feminist "let's subvert some expectations" idea she had, but I think it has subtler implications than she or majority of the Hugo crowd cheering for it realized.
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