The Daughters of the New Morning are building, with real engineering talent, toward a world that does not require men — and they are unusually candid that this is the goal, not a caricature of it. The order pools expertise in reproductive technology, automation, and community design toward a single thesis: that the arrangements which have organized human life around men are not fixable but escapable, and that the enlightened move is not reform but departure — to construct, deliberately, the tools and the settlements that make a separate future possible.
It would be easy, and lazy, to file this as simple animus, and members push back on that hard. The register inside the order is less rage than grief: many arrived after private histories they were told to forgive and manage, and found instead a community that told them they were allowed to leave. What the Daughters offer is the relief of a clean answer — that the problem is not you, and not reparable, and that there is somewhere else to build. That relief is real, and it is also, scholars of separatist movements caution, the mechanism by which such groups tend to harden: an us defined ever more by its escape from a them, until the departure becomes the entire identity and the beautiful future stays permanently one settlement away.
The Daughters are young, and their most ambitious claims — the self-sustaining settlements, the technologies of independence — remain mostly on the whiteboard. What exists now is a community of women who have decided, together, that they are done waiting for a world to change and have started, however improbably, to try to build a different one. Whether that ends in a new society or in the familiar fate of the walled utopia is not yet knowable. The Daughters would say it is at least, finally, theirs.