hmm…

I suppose I would call Jael the hero/anti-hero. Jael tells Janet the she was the plague that made Whileaway what it is, a world without men, and her world doesn’t seem so immoral or bad until she hears this news and feels guilt and grief for the way in which it became a world without men. This ending represented for me the way in which people think they know what an ideal world would be, and would like to go straight there without thinking about what kind of things would need to be done to get there. If we could only get a world where everyone considers everyone an equal and there is total peace, but we had to kill a whole race or gender to achieve that world first, would we still want it?