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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Timeboxer" data-source="post: 1875101" data-attributes="member: 21471">Hmm.  It's really hard to do this without stereotyping, to be honest; I must admit that I'm of the belief that men and women really aren't fundamentally different.Well, how about this, right off the top of my head, as a mishmash of some historical patterns I've seen: a magically advanced matriarchy in which the leaders are women, certainly, but also, the intellectual elite is predominantly female, where "intellectual elite" tends to include those vocations which have magic in their blood (wizards, clerics, sorcerers, etc.).  Recently published (if unintentionally prejudiced) arcane research has indicated that men are by nature more prone to irrational extremes of violence or logic, which undermines the feminine ideal of balance; indeed, the use of detect spells comparing a representative sample of male prisoners with a similar sample of female aristocrats shows that far more men than women are prone to be extreme on moral and authority scales, as Malina "the Indefatigable" Pinarr writes in her Treatise on the Unfairer Sex.It is thus right and proper that women are those in charge, for men, by their very natures (as divined through magic), are incapable of the wisdom necessary for those positions, and certainly they would be unable to deal with the intricacies of the upcoming war against those Eiginese dogs.  Men aren't discriminated against, of course -- women merely find them irrelevant to the important things in life, and certainly it can't be helped that men are simply innately unable to do what women do, by virtue of the fact that they are a corruption of the female progenitor sex.  There have been many good men, history tells us, but they so often flip-flop between extremes that we cannot really rely on them -- they're almost like children, really, and women must be responsible for them.  The idea of a male arcanist is a dangerous prospect, for they may use their magical powers to their own extreme ends, without the wisdom that women have.As a result, the societal ideal of romance tends to exclude men, for they are so unreliable; women often marry men because they are necessary for certain physical needs including children.  However, for love, one must turn to a woman.  The most famous historical example includes a young arcane apprentice who fell in love with her professor, and how the two eventually underwent a certain process to ensure that their love would endure eternally; the tale of the two lesbian vampire sorceresses is nowadays often told to young girls as a bedtime story.All these things have been arcanifically proven.</blockquote>

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