Matriarchal hive species
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A matriarchal hive species is typically some sort of insect-like model of sex/gender, often including two or more of the following elements:
- a matriarchy or female leadership
- disempowered or non-existent males
- clones or a parthenogenetically produced class
- a female or neuter class of workers or warriors
This trope is often used to describe the fear of Communism, socialism, or feminism; see feminist anxiety
List of examples
- Frank Herbert's Hellstrom's Hive
- the Buggers and the Bugger queen in Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- the planetary consciousness in Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine Forrest
- Poul Anderson's Virgin Planet
- the Diclonii in Elfen Lied
- The Diclonii can infect humans with a virus that leads to human offspring actually being female Diclonii drones. The Diclonius queen can reproduce sexually.
- the Borg Queen in Star Trek: The Next Generation
- This is a bit different from the classical matriarchal hive species. However, the Borg were very much about fear of Communism/socialism/loss of individualism: they had a hive mind, they were ruled by a "queen", and their members were "drones".
See also
- Sentient Planets
- Hive vagina
- Bee People at TVTropes