#author who made their fictional 19th century china gender egalitarian to make the west look worse: does this say what I want it to say?

[etirabys]

vagueblogging. forgive me

contemporary fiction writer: colonialism was bad

me: for sure

cfw: here's a depiction of colonized societies that play up the ways they were sympathetic to the modern progressive reader, e.g. more feminist than the conquering culture. you can see how backwards the conquering culture was to consider their values superior when the subaltern population permitted girlbossery. I may have taken significant liberties depicting their culture btw. but it's all for a good point, so

me: noo... wait...