They are without gender, reproducing "spontaneously".
Of course the obvious stayed with me, the big ideas: What would society be like without gender?
And in a year that's seen the gender equality debate ramp up, we should not imagine sustainable business is possible without gender parity at decision-making levels.
What of the argument that without gender there would be no war, because war is an expression of masculine aggression — an epic-scale rape?
But, if Andersson and Dreijer have been after a sound that comes from a place without gender or name or rank, they've found it.
But socialists argue that class is absolutely central to understanding society's ills, but cannot be understood without gender, race and sexual orientation.
The picture that starts to emerge from these statistics is one of judges who judge without gender bias but are hamstrung by publishers who submit with a strong tilt towards books by men.
MISHAN: One of the first Ekumenical investigators who preceded Genly Ai to Gethen suggests that, without gender, Gethenian society has no division into "strong and weak halves, protective/protected, dominant/submissive, owner/chattel, active/passive".
The Liberal Party's betrayal of Eiko's cause is reflected in its leader's brazen infidelity; in Mizoguchi's view, the contrast between his public triumph and his private conduct reveals democracy without gender equality to be a sham.
This month South Australia became the first state to allow transgender people to alter their sex on their birth certificates without gender reassignment surgery or the need for a court approval – a complete separation of biological sex and gender identity.
I can't articulate it, but as the water drains out the legs of my wetsuit, I feel I've grappled with the works of a god I can't describe, a god without gender, without arms and legs or even a beard.
