#there's already so much in the book about how artificial the divide between nature & artifice is

[eldritch-elrics]

so i keep thinking about that terrible frankenstein take which is like "victor frankenstein's real problem was that he tried to create life without involving a woman!" and how it sucks because it equates women & pregnancy AND because it ignores all the other factors that led to the "failure" of the experiment (societal prejudice at large, lack of support for either victor or his creation, etc). but there's also all sorts of queer/genderbendy twists you can put on that:

victor (gay and/or ace), trying to create life outside the bounds of heterosexual marriage and family dynamics (which he's pretty much being forced into in the book!)

victor (cis female or transmasc), trying to get away from the methods of reproduction imposed on/expected of people with uteri

victor (transmasc) making an ideal cis male body for himself to live vicariously through

victor (transfem) trying to prove that you don't need a uterus/etc to create life

...and all of those things would lead to massively different dynamics with the creature, of course!

it just feels like there's so much weird transgender potential. not to mention the nature of the creature of a created being, which you could use either as a metaphor for "child forced into a certain (gendered) image created by their parents" OR "the medically-transitioned transgender body is an 'artificial' one that is demonized by society"