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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1925515" data-attributes="member: 7240">Women who have given birth are no more or less capable of self-defense than women who have not. With the abolition of zero-level characters, there is no mechanical reason that the female bugbears looking after their young are going to be one iota less capable of inflicting and suffering damage either than non-parenting female bugbears, or male bugbears for that matter.Now if one were talking about late-term pregnant monsters that would be one thing. But that's not what we are talking about. What I want to know is how people reach the conclusion that females are more likely to be non-combattants than males when there is no indication of such in the rules.There are all kinds of jobs amongst monstrous humanoids; the male smiths and fletchers are not singled-out as non-combatants because they are not full-time warriors or raiders so what is so special about the mother job that it would be?Finally, amongst evil or non-mammalian creatures, why would we assume that females are more likely to consider it their job to raise the young than males would? Wouldn't this job just automatically fall to those of the lowest social standing, regardless of who they might be?</blockquote>