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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1670913" data-attributes="member: 707">I like to use a paradigm similar to the one you can find in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, (and I'm sure it's source material, though I don't read Chinese so I can't say for certain.)  Namely that "adventurers" are an outsider class just like the Giang-Hu in the movie.  So while a woman may be confined to a traditional role in normal society, she can escape that role by earning a place in the adventurer/Giang-Hu world, which values excellence regardless of gender.  But that has a cost for both men and women, as Giang-Hu fighters are the lowest caste, given no respect or station in normal society.In this way, one can preserve the sexist tendancies that a lot of cultures develop (either patri- or matriarchal), while at the same time affording female PCs the same RP experience as their male companions.In the end, I think it's important to note that playing in a sexist culture is inherently sexist in real life, because it forces a female gamer to choose between playing her own sex, or being treated as an equal in the game world, while a male player can play his own sex without any negative RP repercussions.</blockquote>