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<blockquote data-quote="Anubis the Doomseer" data-source="post: 968951" data-attributes="member: 12455"><p><em>Originally posted by SemperJase </em></p><p><strong>The introduction then goes on to say that while the traditional literature has men rescuing women "there is no need to enforce such gender steriotyping in a modern RPG; it is just as proper to have heroic female characters save handsome (but somewhat ineffectual) males as the reverse. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>It seems they are trying to turn human nature upside down.</strong></p><p></p><p>Well, you have one faulty premise already. Going with the conceit of the genre - perhaps the heroic woman is from the alien world (or to really flip the notion around, she both from the alien/heroic world and she's the Flash Gordon - i.e. she has come to Earth/Faerun/etc). What is there to say the normative behaviour isn't women saving men?</p><p></p><p>Second - turning basic genre presumptions upside down is a time-tested and proven literrary trick that works rather well when done properly. The popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was in part due to just this sort of "upside down" turn - the blonde/ditzy victim as the strong/tough hero. Buffy also fell in love with at least 4 (or 5 if you count Parker) guys who she had to defend at least at one point or another - the boy in Never Kill A Boy On Your First Date (first season), Scott Hope, chipped-Spike and de-superpowered Reilly.</p><p></p><p><strong> This genre is significant for romance. I just don't believe that women would be romantically interested in a romance with men they had to rescue.</strong></p><p></p><p>Depends on the nature of the rescue.</p><p></p><p><strong>In this case, the stereotype is based on reality.</strong></p><p></p><p>Er.... I'll leave this be because of the format for this forum (as opposed to RPG.net), but I'll just say you are partly right in that the stereotype has a relationship with reality, but as reality changes the stereotype's relations to it will change as well.</p><p></p><p><strong> Men and women are wired differently.</strong></p><p></p><p>Again - not something to get into here, but this is a very superficial way of looking at it, and not generalizeable to every culture or epoch. There is some truth to it, but not as much as you would think and not for the reasons you would necessarily think is the case either.</p><p></p><p>- Ma'at</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anubis the Doomseer, post: 968951, member: 12455"] [i]Originally posted by SemperJase [/i] [B]The introduction then goes on to say that while the traditional literature has men rescuing women "there is no need to enforce such gender steriotyping in a modern RPG; it is just as proper to have heroic female characters save handsome (but somewhat ineffectual) males as the reverse. It seems they are trying to turn human nature upside down.[/b] Well, you have one faulty premise already. Going with the conceit of the genre - perhaps the heroic woman is from the alien world (or to really flip the notion around, she both from the alien/heroic world and she's the Flash Gordon - i.e. she has come to Earth/Faerun/etc). What is there to say the normative behaviour isn't women saving men? Second - turning basic genre presumptions upside down is a time-tested and proven literrary trick that works rather well when done properly. The popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was in part due to just this sort of "upside down" turn - the blonde/ditzy victim as the strong/tough hero. Buffy also fell in love with at least 4 (or 5 if you count Parker) guys who she had to defend at least at one point or another - the boy in Never Kill A Boy On Your First Date (first season), Scott Hope, chipped-Spike and de-superpowered Reilly. [b] This genre is significant for romance. I just don't believe that women would be romantically interested in a romance with men they had to rescue.[/b] Depends on the nature of the rescue. [b]In this case, the stereotype is based on reality.[/b] Er.... I'll leave this be because of the format for this forum (as opposed to RPG.net), but I'll just say you are partly right in that the stereotype has a relationship with reality, but as reality changes the stereotype's relations to it will change as well. [b] Men and women are wired differently.[/b] Again - not something to get into here, but this is a very superficial way of looking at it, and not generalizeable to every culture or epoch. There is some truth to it, but not as much as you would think and not for the reasons you would necessarily think is the case either. - Ma'at [/QUOTE]
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