Thinking of how specifically 1993 was that bit in The Giver where when adult roles are assigned some of the girls are to be...
Thinking of how specifically 1993 was that bit in The Giver where when adult roles are assigned some of the girls are to be relatively pampered while they bear two pregnancies and then go in the general labor pool
One, in that the measured, proscribed regularity is a sideways reference to contemporary Chinese “one-child” policy
And two, how it casts reproduction as a matter exclusively for lower-class women, who are seen from the narration’s point of view as kind of pathetic for being okay with this life purpose.
This was the decade of the Ricki Lake/Sally Jessie Raphael/Jerry Springer “daytime talk” freak shows, remember
remember how much of the throw weight of Snow Crash was the idea of minivans as “bimbo boxes”?