Eberron: no sexism

[Merkuri]

Male Channelers are LEAGUES more powerful than females. Women can link power easier, but men are way, way, way more individually powerful. Men do have the going insane drawback however.

IIRC, in the Age of Legends (or whenever there were both male and female Aes Sedai) male and female channelers were equally powerful, though they were each better at different kinds of power. Rand, on the other hand, is leagues more powerful than most living Aes Sedai short of the Forsaken. He's unusual, though, and by no means represents the average male channeler.

*end tangent*

 

[Gez]

Rand, on the other hand, is leagues more powerful than most living Aes Sedai short of the Forsaken. He's unusual, though, and by no means represents the average male channeler.

Kinda like Dune. Only the Bene Gesserit women can drink the water of life and not die (it's rather the water of death, heh), but when a man is an exception to that rule, he becomes a god.

 

[Nymrohd]

IIRC, in the Age of Legends (or whenever there were both male and female Aes Sedai) male and female channelers were equally powerful, though they were each better at different kinds of power. Rand, on the other hand, is leagues more powerful than most living Aes Sedai short of the Forsaken. He's unusual, though, and by no means represents the average male channeler.

*end tangent*

Actually no, male channelers are on average quite stronger on the amount of raw power they can manage. Saidar and saidin are equally strong but women simply cannot hold as much as men can. Moreover saidar and saidin are entirely different in practice, weaves that may have similar effects work completely differently for a male and a female channeler. The reason why you may think they are equal is that the Aes Sedai in general believe it to be so since they have little experience against a trained male channeler that has reached his potential, and there are only snipets of lore from the Age of Legends preserved, especially referencing saidin.