Niko, I dunno. As you say, one can fit it into the spirit of the challenge, but theatrical gender performance is a slightly but significantly different thing than everyday gender performance.
It's not so much the theatrical gender performance - a man simply playing female parts and enjoying it, I wouldn't consider at all eligible - as the way that he conceptualises it. He seems to be saying to Axiothea, who fits more clearly into the space of trans male or genderqueer (insofar as ancient Greeks ever can), "I am like you." Of course you could put this down to a cis man making a poor analogy. But it seems to parallel the way that Renault elsewhere writes about people with "two natures" (Leo and her Inner Boy in Friendly Young Ladies) as well as talks about her own gender identity.
Having said that, this may all be too extra-canonical. Since I don't plan on requesting or offering Niko, I should probably save it for the book discussion!
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Date: 2015-01-18 02:56 pm (UTC)It's not so much the theatrical gender performance - a man simply playing female parts and enjoying it, I wouldn't consider at all eligible - as the way that he conceptualises it. He seems to be saying to Axiothea, who fits more clearly into the space of trans male or genderqueer (insofar as ancient Greeks ever can), "I am like you." Of course you could put this down to a cis man making a poor analogy. But it seems to parallel the way that Renault elsewhere writes about people with "two natures" (Leo and her Inner Boy in Friendly Young Ladies) as well as talks about her own gender identity.
Having said that, this may all be too extra-canonical. Since I don't plan on requesting or offering Niko, I should probably save it for the book discussion!