Eberron: no sexism

[the black knight]

No Sexism? Who the frack cares? Girls don't read these books anyway.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

No Sexism? Who the frack cares? Girls don't read these books anyway.

They don't?

 

[Asmor]

They don't?

Nope.

 

[Trench]

Nope.

I'll be sure to tell the woman dominated table top games we have around here that. It's going to be disapointing for my friend Laura that her 7th Sea game apparently doesn't exist.

 

[Merkuri]

That's a majorly politically charged statement there.

Whoops, I'm sorry. I forget that things like that are political. I'll edit that out of my post if the mods think it's too much for EN World.

No Sexism? Who the frack cares? Girls don't read these books anyway.

*raises hand* Girl who reads these books here.

 

[Set]

However, they can be males. In fact, given the fact that the changeling prostitutes are among the most popular ("Who do you want me to be, sweetheart?"), that female prostitute might be a male changeling.

"It don't matter if it's Arcturan."

 

[Victim]

Is this why Eberron's population sizes are so small?

I figured that's because of ~100 years of total warfare. Artificial boosts in population from warforged and undead would even allow the nations to continue fighting past ordinary limits.

 

[Merkuri]

Considering even male changelings can become pregnant when they're in female form (so sayeth Races of Eberron) I don't think changeling gender really matters unless they die or are otherwise forced back into their "natural" form.

 

[Torm]

"female" is just "male" with a prefix, as if females were just a different type of male) <snip> I'm aware we come from a long history of sexism and I believe we won't really start pulling away from that until we all become aware of it.

Of course, the other slightly more accurate and scientific way of looking at the difference between those two words is that all babies in the womb are female by default, and that males are just the ones who, due to the influence of testosterone, were born deformed and lacking all their correct parts - and thus, lacking the (much superior) "fe" prefix off of their descriptions!

No Sexism? Who the frack cares? Girls don't read these books anyway.

Maybe I misread the intended tone, but I heard an intense irony here, and got a little chuckle out of this. Especially with the use of an imaginary curse word most prominently used, at least in my memory, by female characters Kara Thrace and Veronica Mars.

I understand if this gets modded. >_>

Yes, I will, too. Good grief, man.

 

[Glyfair]

Really? I always thought that Syberys was female. I don't remember where I got that idea, though. I also thought Khyber was male, but I wouln't be surprised if I was wrong on that count.

Here is Keith's take:

But as for an official answer: there is no official answer. There are many variations of the myth, and they contradict each other. As described on page 326 of City of Towers (the novel), the Seren Tablets depict Siberys as masculine and Eberron and Khyber as feminine. However, page 158 of the ECS presents a different version of the story.

In my opinion, the Seren version is more common - so yes, the earth is feminine and the sky is masculine, as Twinbahamut has suggested. But the short form is that there is no wrong answer.