Reading this one for a residential life book club - I'm only a hundred pages in, and so far it seems mostly like set up. I wonder if these specifically engineered gender norms will eventually come into play... Definitely an interesting discussion.

"You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words."