Wild Ginger- Tamed by society?

Hello there, all those hearing this in technicolor from cyberspace. Wild Ginger, the half breed, is not so wild. Truly, she is being tamed by society. Maple, the protagonist, stumbles through an absurd world, that of Mao's communist china. At the heart here we see the highest level of absurdity, that of gender roles and sexuality in communism. With the goal of equality in mind, Mao worked to make his people the same, and Wild Ginger is a criticism of this. The standard Mao set for equality was male, signified by all the indoctrinated youth wearing male clothes. Gender roles have been erased for equality, for example Hot Pepper as a leader of the red guard, but an unexpected consequence of this was the perversion of sexuality. Referenced throughout the beginning both subtly and blatantly are similes or details of female fertility, and the oppression therein. Hot Pepper wears her Mao pins like nipples. The school teacher lactates through her shirt. Maple believes her first menstrual cycle to be "fire" and evil in her body. These details, unnecessary to the plot, speak to the symbolic oppression of sexuality for equality in communism, especially communist China.