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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 918899" data-attributes="member: 8439">nope, no gall, no suggestion of sexism. Merely the notice that since I have heard women who've practiced archery say that some sort of binding or other would be needed, one guys random assertion was not useful. but you can claim I brought sexism into it if you really feel like it...or not. I find nothing at all sexist in the idea (well, its only about women, so lets say I find nothing anti woman about it). As a part of the myth it is no worse an idea than that of circumcision - a ritual removal to show membership in a group which may or may not have a benefit. I found the playing of a woman so unconcerned with her ability to lactate, or perception of her within a civilized view of what women is to be quite a wonderful expereince. I have examined the myth, and the mythos which has grown around it, and no, it doesn't even hint of the amazon being less than a woman, or bestial or any other bunk. Amazons are a mythos. Whether there were some historic female warriors that started the mythos is as irrelevant to anything on this board as whether vlad tempes (sp?) was really allergic to garlic. Within the mythos is the very powerful idea that these woman warriors ritually removed one breast. For some reason, this part of a mythos turns otherwise sane fantasy fans into quasi historical scholars, and makes men weirdly uncomfortable. Its interesting. That reaction may well have some sexual connotations. But if the myth itself is a sexist attack on warrior women, it seems to have somehow eluded all the women I have ever told about my character or plans for a con costume. And the buyers of a very popular feminist poster which plays on the amazon mythos.Kahuna burger</blockquote>

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