In her Introduction, Le Guin tells us that, in her novel, she is describing us: Yes, indeed the people in it are androgynous, but that doesn’t mean that I’m predicting that in a millennium or so we will all be androgynous, or announcing that I tnk that we damned well ought to be androgynous.  I’m merely observing, in the peculiar, devious, and thought-experimental manner proper to science fiction, that if you look at us at certain odd times of day in certain weathers, we already are. . . .  I am describing certain aspects of psychological reality in the novelist’s way, wch is by inventing elaborately circumstantial lies. Examine the lies she tells to determine what METAPHORICAL times of days and wch METAPHORICAL weathers she is talking about.  In what ways is she claiming humans are androgynous? Suggestion 400 words using