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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 2053470" data-attributes="member: 27012">The point I'm trying to make is that the "average male fighter" can come very close to being "average male" when the normal ranks of fighters are drawn from the general population while "average female fighter" can come very close to being "strongest female" when the pool is small and drawn mainly from the top.  I'm not talking about the demographics of a modern military (I'm well aware of what they look like from looking into military studies on the subject) but more of the sort of situation where the a large segment of the male population becomes Fighters but only a small segment of women -- the Xenas, Red Sonjas, etc. -- are warriors.An exceptional woman can clearly be stronger than an average man.  All it would take for the average woman fighter to be stronger than the average male fighter is for the average female fighter to be drawn from the exceptional pool near the maximum and the average male fighter to be drawn from closer to the average.  That could easily happen in a situation where the average male fighter is drafted and trained to be part of an army or guard unit while the average female fighter has to fight her way into her profession.And all I'm really saying is that at some level of bias, the women who enter the profession would be exceptional to the point where they could exceed the abilities of their unexeptional and potentially average male counterparts.  I'm not saying that it has to be this way.  I'm saying that it could be.  In fact, you'll find this sort of thing in genre fiction.Absolutely.  And there is some interesting role-playing potential there, too, in a woman warrior who is simply a poser who intimidates people into thinking she's exceptional by the way she acts, even though she lacks the strength and skill to back it up.That includes level as well as attributes.</blockquote>

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