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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kemrain" data-source="post: 1587766" data-attributes="member: 12153">Well, through terrible plot twists, some failed will saves, and some really foolish decisions, both of the PC's in the game I'm playing in have spent time both as males and females, and they certanly do get treated differently.  That said, the world we play in is rather evolved- though the tech level is Middle Ages, early Rennisance at best, the society is more a feudal reflection of the American 1800's.  Men and women fill very different rolls, but women can own property, men can raise children, there are male prostitutes (though only in VERY urban areas) and women can hold positions of political power.  However, Men and Women are not created equal as women don't go off to war, are often less educated (That isn't true in some cities) and are often descriminated against in the legal systems (one city has laws on the books that give women a curfew of nightfall and state that they can earn no more than 80% of a job's wages.)Given all that, we still see women in the clergy (even if it's not encouraged), women running businesses (though more often clotheirs and grocers than arms dealers and such), and women posessing most of the rights given t men in each barony.Society expects women to behave a certain way and though it does not encourage them to break from it's molds, it does not sternly punnish them, either.  There is sexism, as there is racism, but it only plays as much of a roll in our game as the players allow (how much time we spend in uneducated lands)There are roumors of lands to the south where women are treated almost as property... Those are some crazy savages.- Kemrain the Dis-Sexist</blockquote>

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