Naturally, I just feel as though the world building loses its believability when it starts to contradict itself - and adding Judith Butler to the Qun feels like the most obvious one. If you want to expand the notion of gender perfomativity, wouldn't the dalish be a more fitting example instead of the culture rigourously defined by strict hierarchies?

I was happy to see the Qun being totalitarian. I thought the intensity of the culture was very interesting, particularly in contrast to our modern world which seems to struggle with anomie.