Not to mention that there was originally an entire character named "Switch" who switched genders between matrix/real-world and didn't make it past The Hollywood People and that according to one of the Wachowskis it was really an allegory for transgenderism... Well here's one article about that (there's another on Vox I think):
Honestly though it would be ill-advised to try to think of the Matrix as A Great Revelatory Truth About Humankind's Place In the Universe and I hope folks are past that kind of quasi-religious thinking. It's an imperfect but thought-provoking series of fictional stories.
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53692435
Honestly though it would be ill-advised to try to think of the Matrix as A Great Revelatory Truth About Humankind's Place In the Universe and I hope folks are past that kind of quasi-religious thinking. It's an imperfect but thought-provoking series of fictional stories.