Genly Ai struggles to understand how Gethenians see themselves because of how different Gethen is compared to where he’s from. He comes from a planet where everyone is known by their gender, and is seen as male or female where in Gethen, there are no genders. They only become male or female when in kemmer, a term Gethenians use when they’re sexually active. It’s completely different to what Genly understands because in his world, the people know what gender they are and don’t go through kemmer. Genly may feel unusual about everything because he’s not like everyone else around him. All the things on Gethen is normal for Gethenians except for Genly. The Gethenians think of him as a pervert, judging him for having a permanent gender. The king asks him, ‘“So all of them, out on these other planets, are in permanent kemmer? A society of perverts?”’ (36). It shows that when Genly thinks that everyone else is strange, he’s actually the strange one to them all. He doesn’t mean to be a pervert or to upset anyone. Genly also struggles with not knowing what to refer Gethenians as because of them being genderless. His attitude reveals that the world he comes from is just like our world. We can relate to Genly by understanding how he feels because we’re more like him. With his struggle of not fitting in makes him feel different from everyone else. People judge others by how they look and not accepting them for who they are.