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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1549902" data-attributes="member: 463">Yeah, I'm not sure why you need help with this...Maybe think about how sexism & role-differentiation by gender works in your home culture (unless you live in a few places like Sweden or the Netherlands, this shouldn't be diccicult, maybe not even then), and how it's changed over recent history.  Some societies may embody a visceral hostility to women, perhaps claiming a religious sanction (eg the Book teaches that women are EEEVIL, corrupt, dirty, etc).  Others may take a "different but equal" approach - eg mothers and warriors are (supposedly) equally esteemed, but only men can be warriors, because it's 'unnatural' for a woman to be one.  These societies may ban men from certain roles, like midwivery.  Others may have the official stance that women are 'better' and thus too good/pure/valuable for certain 'nasty' roles (like warrior or executioner), whether they want to be one or not.  Others may have completely different standards for nobility & the masses - maybe noblewomen can be rulers (monarchs or presidents) while commoner women are kept barefoot in the kitchen.Think about why the society is this way.  It may be a reaction to recent events - eg maybe there was a recent major war, lots of men killed, and women had to fill traditonal male roles like warrior, now the (male) leaders of the society are trying to get them 'back in the kitchen'.  That would be a good way to justify your heavily-armed high-stat female PCs - they're war veterans!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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