From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 30 Jun 1994 - 00:13:15 EEST
Sandy, Mr. pro-Hrestoli, opines again:
> There have been a number of arguments in favor of the Rokari being
> highly sexist. If this is agreed upon, I suggest that the Hrestoli
> NOT be so sexist.
> Second, the
> Rokari, with their stay-in-yer-caste attitude, sound more like sexist
> stay-in-yer-kitchen chauvinists, while the Hrestoli be-all-you-can-be
> can clearly be applied to women, letting them also rise within the
> ranks, whatever those ranks might be.
If the Rokari caste system applies to women (I think it does), then presumably they get at least a slice of the corresponding status, n'stuff, even if they don't act as "proper" members of said caste. Women getting Uppity isn't much of a threat with no social mobility.
Women rising in the Hrestoli class structure, independantly of their men, certainly is threatening to a patriarchal society, and positively messy when the details start of ooze out.
> >I liked it better when this [Hunger] was the Undeath rune.
> It IS still the Undeath Rune.
Sadly not: are Krarsh[thingies] Undead?
> May this is why so few Gloranthan cultures bother to be
> effective vs. horses -- comparatively simple magic does the trick.
That "artillery-like" magics are effective against very-close-order formations like infantry squares makes sense. (It was, after all, an anti-cavalry technique.) However, it's going to be less effective against lines of heavy infantry, even less against open formations, and rather useless aginst cavalry. (To generalise woefully.)
> No offense Dave, but I
> suspect you are broad-minded and experimental compared to most
> gamers.
Is this considered a dire insult in Texas/Utah/SCal? ;-)
> >> I don't mind having a separate classification for women (if, in
> >> the end, they can do everything a man can do)
> >Even in, say, Arolanit?
> Sure. Why not?
Check the boxed section on the Brithini in G:G, about the "so evident" iniquities.
> Now looky here, Alex: having men and women have different
> society roles does Not Necessarily deprive the women of all cultural
> import.
Hence if you think the above is a role of "great import", it disposes neatly of the argumentum ad Greg you present that we should have female knights, wizards, and rulers, Left, Right, and Loskalm.
Alex.
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