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Gender divsion in fantasy/low tech militaries

Started by Nexus, October 03, 2014, 02:48:26 PM

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Haffrung

Quote from: S'mon;790677He's definitely worth reading. He's a very smart guy, and he's very good at anticipating and addressing criticisms of his thesis. I saw a lot of lazy/not-so-smart reviewers criticise his thesis in ways he'd already anticipated and rebutted.

It's curious that most of the criticism of the book came from the left. It seems there's nobody so reluctant to recognize progress as a modern progressive.
 

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If we're talking about a purely fantasy setting, I don't have the slightest problem with gender roles being radically different from history, including having entire battalions of female warriors.

But in history or historical fantasy, that's a different story.  In the latter, I will want to have reasons why gender roles might be different from the standard historical model.  In Albion, for example, female Clerics, having been chosen by the Unconquered Sun, are treated the same as male Clerics, and thus train and serve as warriors.
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