https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3737168.html

I remember being hugely impressed by this story when it was a Nebula finalist back in 2003. Hugo voters weren’t, and it finished in tenth place at nominations stage, both Hugo and Nebula voters going instead for Coraline, by Neil Gaiman. On rereading I still think it is a classic, and well done to the Tiptree jury for recognising it. It's a story of a matriarchal society of human colonists on the Moon, where men have largely been disempowered for the common good; it's neither utopia nor dystopia, but a complex society which may or may not be able to anser its own questions, and where politics and violence have an uneasy and widely denied coexistence. Eighteen years on, it still resonated for me. ( )

An entertainer convinces a young man to challenge the rules of his matriarchal society. A very strong story about what is means to be a man and if "being a man" is worthwhile. ( )