ArgentNoelle

-Angels seem to be sexually nondifferentiated (that is, at least so far it seems that angels cannot procreate with other angels but that any angel, if in a male vessel, could procreate with a human female to create a Nephilim.)

-on the other hand, angels do not seem to be agendered. They refer to each other as brother or sister, he or she, and these references seem to be consistent across vessels (so probably not just a fact of them using English terms when on earth). They also seem to show a slight preference for having the sex of their vessel match their gender, although they don’t really care that much. Some examples I can think of: Hannah chose a female vessel before a male vessel, Raphael chose a male vessel before a female vessel, and on Lucifer’s vessel-hopping spree the vast majority of them were male and not female.

-there is no connection between biological sex of angels (which is all the same) and gender, but it must be fairly integral to the species to have genders. If it wasn’t an integral part of the species to have genders, Naomi and her people would probably have tried to wipe that out too as being part of dangerous individualism.

-and something I never thought of, although it seems pretty strange that I never thought of it - there are no societal ramifications of gender for the angels. It is a completely personal thing. The angel hierarchy is based on power and rank, and they are all soldiers, without any type of differentiation being based on gender.

-plus a thought about the choice of metaphorical business suits in the representation of heaven. they do a couple of things:

-represent bureaucracy
-give an aesthetically cold feel that fits in with the glowy white walls
-mirrors hell (where they also wear business suits)
-is a uniform, basically - which reminds you that they are all soldiers

and the choice of suits is also interesting because it is a very non-differentiated choice of clothing. The male and female suits differ by cut, but all look pretty much the same, which speaks to both the uniform/non-individualizing feel of the place but also is a very natural and unobtrusive way of getting rid of the connotations that come with gender differentiation in clothes, and so, along with the fact that there is no connection between gender and role differentiation, serve to add to the creation of a society without the baggage of sexism [this is also an interesting mirror to hell, which is entirely the opposite]

-Plus a random note about Chuck/God and Amara, because it’s something I noticed and thought was really interesting, in the finale of season 11. Technically, Chuck is male and Amara is female, but it gets somewhat more complex than that in a way that was revealed in that conversation where Chuck explains why he created the earth. Because really, if you think about creation, especially creation from (almost) nothing, it’s more tied to birth and motherhood than fatherhood, and something about that speech in particular seemed to somehow point to this gap, because Amara, unlike him, can’t understand the creation of children on an emotional level, though she can come to understand it eventually as a beautiful work.