In this short story, men still show physical and objective advantages over women in strength and other aspects. However, such advantages are not constructed into social advantages due to the extremely low survival rate of men but shift the balance of social advantages to women. In limited space, this story le Guin ever-present emphasizes the social construction of the planet to readers: hemorrhagic, strength and rude on this planet have never been commendable of so-called masculine, but fragile and realistic representation of the so-called women cry, perceptual good jealous, etc., is a disdain for social lack of rationality. The embodiment of reason, which represents the nobleness of the human soul, is the physically weak woman.
The ironic effect is enhanced by Le Guin's clever thinking and subtle contrast: men are deprived of educational opportunities just like women in real life, and "can do nothing but compete and fight". Men are required to be strong in order to look like men. The fact that men have become a reproductive tool controlled by society also proves that pregnancy is not an innate weakness of women and that men's advantages have been selected as disadvantages by society when sperm is more valuable for survival. Le Guin in this undoubtedly shook the essentialist fundamental argument foundation, namely physiological determines the superiority of the male, she issued a sharp in the word games, the almost bitter mockery that biological strengths and weaknesses are worthless without survival choices, and society is what determines what is good and what is bad, The fragile connection between the physical base and the social construct is blown up in this intense irony.
In a conclusion, The most valuable thing in The Matter of Seggri is that Le Guin does not give up her support for human freedom as a social constructionist while sharply attacking essentialism and conservative male thinking. Need to succumb to threaten the survival of the very low productivity time was gone, after all, in this era of spare capacity to support diversified value, women, in reality, Seggri just for the liberation of men, should be like a claim of existentialism, freedom of choice, freedom to be want to be me, this is never true pursuit of the feminist movement, And I see le Guin's hope in The Matter of Seggri.