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<blockquote data-quote="Arcaneshield" data-source="post: 8428365" data-attributes="member: 6696716"><p>An over reliance on sensitivity limits storytelling and closes off avenues of narrative exploration for the sake of sensibilities of individuals many of whom have no connection to the potential offended party and are getting offended on behalf of them. All that aside I'm not looking at this in terms of modern sensibilities, I'm looking at this in terms of what makes sense to me and what I feel tells an interesting story. I'm a rather politically incorrect person by nature and I protest to the assumption of sexism</p><p></p><p>However I'll explore your rebuttal all the same.</p><p></p><p><strong>Would rare males be fought over by desperate or evil females?</strong></p><p></p><p>Yes. Yes they would. Every species exists to propagate itself and the fundamental drive of most of sexual politics comes down to this biological reality. The sudden near eradication of most of one gender would effectively consign a people to eventual extinction. And it would have horrible social ramifications and would create a sense of despair and doom to those left alive, hence the words of Vekesh preaching to the Elfaivaran survivors not to give into nihilism and despair.</p><p></p><p>Motherhood and Fatherhood is a strong aspiration of the majority of the population at one point or another in their lives, and if ones romantic and reproductive prospects are fatalistically limited, one could enter a very real sense of hopelessness. Add in Elfaivar being a defeated and broken ethnostate with their very peoplehood and culture constantly under attack, individuals could and likely would be pushed to drastic measures, and the few able bodied males left would be valuable, either as, sadly, commodities, or as powerful kings in their own right, depending on the actions of themselves and those around them. You are correct that the biological realities of men vs women would change how this would affect the sexual and social dynamic but even so there would be battles fought, slaves taken, men seen as status symbols or rulers, and you would likely have a large diaspora of eladrin women from their nation to seek to settle down elsewhere and seek partners from other races.</p><p></p><p>Nothing of what I said had anything to do with gender-specifics and if you flip the genders the outcome, while different somewhat due to BIOLOGY, would not be overly different socially. And I resent the implication otherwise.</p><p></p><p>As an addendum. Given that in order to contribute to reproduction all a male has to contribute is their sperm, whilst a woman must carry a baby to term, it could be argued that in the flip of this if most men died, it is more likely that men would not experience an increase in power, creating a patriarchy, because they could have bouts of intense sexual activity impregnating upwards of fifty or more women, and then recovery periods. They would probably not, by virtue of their sex and their value for future reproduction, become elevated individuals in society. If anything they might be treated more poorly, something akin to a pleasure slave. And I see a similar brothel still being set up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arcaneshield, post: 8428365, member: 6696716"] An over reliance on sensitivity limits storytelling and closes off avenues of narrative exploration for the sake of sensibilities of individuals many of whom have no connection to the potential offended party and are getting offended on behalf of them. All that aside I'm not looking at this in terms of modern sensibilities, I'm looking at this in terms of what makes sense to me and what I feel tells an interesting story. I'm a rather politically incorrect person by nature and I protest to the assumption of sexism However I'll explore your rebuttal all the same. [B]Would rare males be fought over by desperate or evil females?[/B] Yes. Yes they would. Every species exists to propagate itself and the fundamental drive of most of sexual politics comes down to this biological reality. The sudden near eradication of most of one gender would effectively consign a people to eventual extinction. And it would have horrible social ramifications and would create a sense of despair and doom to those left alive, hence the words of Vekesh preaching to the Elfaivaran survivors not to give into nihilism and despair. Motherhood and Fatherhood is a strong aspiration of the majority of the population at one point or another in their lives, and if ones romantic and reproductive prospects are fatalistically limited, one could enter a very real sense of hopelessness. Add in Elfaivar being a defeated and broken ethnostate with their very peoplehood and culture constantly under attack, individuals could and likely would be pushed to drastic measures, and the few able bodied males left would be valuable, either as, sadly, commodities, or as powerful kings in their own right, depending on the actions of themselves and those around them. You are correct that the biological realities of men vs women would change how this would affect the sexual and social dynamic but even so there would be battles fought, slaves taken, men seen as status symbols or rulers, and you would likely have a large diaspora of eladrin women from their nation to seek to settle down elsewhere and seek partners from other races. Nothing of what I said had anything to do with gender-specifics and if you flip the genders the outcome, while different somewhat due to BIOLOGY, would not be overly different socially. And I resent the implication otherwise. As an addendum. Given that in order to contribute to reproduction all a male has to contribute is their sperm, whilst a woman must carry a baby to term, it could be argued that in the flip of this if most men died, it is more likely that men would not experience an increase in power, creating a patriarchy, because they could have bouts of intense sexual activity impregnating upwards of fifty or more women, and then recovery periods. They would probably not, by virtue of their sex and their value for future reproduction, become elevated individuals in society. If anything they might be treated more poorly, something akin to a pleasure slave. And I see a similar brothel still being set up. [/QUOTE]
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