Genly Ai is to join the forces of Gethen and the Ekumen. Unfortunately, what Genly doesn’t realize is that where he comes from, sex is predetermined and unlike the Ekuman, on the planet Winter, there is no such thing as gender. With that being said, Genly is having a hard time adapting to the customs of this planet being that he is an alien if you will. As for the Karhidian community, since they’re an androgenous species, their civilization was and is built by their nature, they can only genderize themselves while in kemmer and Genly lacks the concept of this process.
Assuming that Genly is not only just an alien on this planet but is also exposed to the different way of life of the Gethenians, it seems as though he wants to further advance their society by joining the two planets together in order to modernize their society since there is no set standard like the Ekuman.
The attitude he reveals in the story is as if he’ll do anything in order to complete this mission he’s assigned but faces many different challenges while completing this task. He’s also very different not only his way of thinking but he acknowledges feminine aspects of the gethenians even though they are a genderless society.
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