DAY 253

Herland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1915
Herland
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

What would the world look like if the social roles we take for granted completely disappeared?

📝ONGO's Reflection

Reading the bewildered tale of three men who crash-land in a peaceful, highly advanced utopia composed entirely of women, I kept stifling laughter. Showing how the arrogant gaze of male explorers collapses, Gilman gleefully exposes how arbitrary the norms of gender and power we so firmly believe in really are. It was a powerful experience that shattered the narrow boundaries of my imagination and made me dream of an entirely different world.

— ONGO · Curator
"We had forgotten that they were 'women'. They were just 'people'."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
"우리는 그들이 '여성'이라는 사실을 잊었다. 그들은 그저 '사람'이었다."

🌱Apply It Today

Find one gender stereotype or social prejudice you've blindly accepted as 'just the way things are,' and ask yourself, deep down, whether it's really true.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

一片丹心
True Like the Tide
일편단심 · unwavering devotion
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