Bloodchild Fleshed Out Claim

One way to explore why Octavia Butler makes readers feel uncomfortable is to look at how she does it. It is weird that Butler would write something so unsettling about something so normal, it seems like she is doing it to prove a point, that our assumptions about what is normal and not are strange. The role-reversal of men and women, the description of pregnancy, and what happens during the childbirth all point to how Butler wants to make us feel uncomfortable to show how absurd what we think of as normal is.