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<blockquote data-quote="SavageCole" data-source="post: 6338499" data-attributes="member: 6750284">I am so bad at walking away from ridiculous, but delicious internet discussions.&nbsp; Damn you guys! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Let's not lose context here, though.&nbsp; Women in Europe (or Asia)* overwhelmingly did not wear armor and see combat.&nbsp; Of all feudal European (or Asian) women, a microscopic number donned armor and went into combat.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of all feudal European (or Asian) combatants who donned armor and fought, literally a negligible proportion of them were female.&nbsp; This is not to say there were not extremely rare and spectacular counter-examples, and presumably when we're talking about PCs in d&amp;d we should be thinking extremely rare and spectacular. So, I applaud those raising awareness of ceremonial pics of female nobles in armor, mention of Gorgeous Ladies of (medieval) Wresting, and the like.&nbsp; As a consumer of this piece of art, the juxtaposition of courtly feminine and war-like intrigued and grooved me. &nbsp; You mean the armor in the d&amp;d artwork sample?&nbsp; The armor was just something an artist drew, made of ink and paper, digital pixels ... or whatever we imagine it to be. I interpret it to be ceremonial ... but we're all entitled to see it as we want.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; *Is this a Python skit ... &quot;African or European swallow?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SavageCole, post: 6338499, member: 6750284"] I am so bad at walking away from ridiculous, but delicious internet discussions. Damn you guys! :D Let's not lose context here, though. Women in Europe (or Asia)* overwhelmingly did not wear armor and see combat. Of all feudal European (or Asian) women, a microscopic number donned armor and went into combat. Of all feudal European (or Asian) combatants who donned armor and fought, literally a negligible proportion of them were female. This is not to say there were not extremely rare and spectacular counter-examples, and presumably when we're talking about PCs in d&d we should be thinking extremely rare and spectacular. So, I applaud those raising awareness of ceremonial pics of female nobles in armor, mention of Gorgeous Ladies of (medieval) Wresting, and the like. As a consumer of this piece of art, the juxtaposition of courtly feminine and war-like intrigued and grooved me. You mean the armor in the d&d artwork sample? The armor was just something an artist drew, made of ink and paper, digital pixels ... or whatever we imagine it to be. I interpret it to be ceremonial ... but we're all entitled to see it as we want. *Is this a Python skit ... "African or European swallow?" [/QUOTE]

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