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Pierce Brown Hiya. The Golds created the Reds to be a patriarchal society dominated by men and to disenfranchise women by forbidding female participation in mining. They did this to take away their political power because they saw it as destabilizing. Darrow's slang and forms of expression in book one are very influenced by that society. It begins to change when he sees women in power at the Institute, in Golden Son, and his forms of expression and his understanding of gender relationships also begin to shift. His relationship with sexuality also mirrors this path, bc golds created red society to be heterosexual for similar reasons.

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