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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1876021" data-attributes="member: 812"><p>Unless, of course, you happen to think the whole idea of lesbian vampire sorceresses is <em>FUNNY</em>. Of course, I happen to think sex in general is awfully amusing, and the lengths people go to and the situations they get themselves into over and around and because of it are a great source of comfort and hilarity to me.</p><p></p><p>But I certainly share your concern. On the other hand, I'm not sure I'm any less frightened by the idea of the straight women I know gaining similar powers. <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 :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>I will say this: the D&D rules do support an interpretation that the default society ought to be gender-equal, if only because there are NO gender differences described in the rules. The strongest woman in the world can be as strong as the strongest man in the world, and so on for all of the attributes modeled in the game.</p><p></p><p>This certainly does NOT match what I see in the world I live in, where the strongest men seem considerably stronger than the strongest women. That's not to say definitively that women CAN'T be stronger, but I definitely see that on average, men are stronger physically than women, and that can't help but have an effect on their social roles.</p><p></p><p>So for whatever reason, men and women seem to be different in terms of their relative physical strength (if by no other measure) in the D&D world than in this world, and so it's natural to assume that the gender roles are different as well.</p><p></p><p>That's for the "default" D&D setting, obviously; this says nothing about what any individual DM ought to do in their campaign. Just a note to say that the default setting is likely to have different (and perhaps more equitable) gender roles than our own world does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1876021, member: 812"] Unless, of course, you happen to think the whole idea of lesbian vampire sorceresses is [i]FUNNY[/i]. Of course, I happen to think sex in general is awfully amusing, and the lengths people go to and the situations they get themselves into over and around and because of it are a great source of comfort and hilarity to me. But I certainly share your concern. On the other hand, I'm not sure I'm any less frightened by the idea of the straight women I know gaining similar powers. :D I will say this: the D&D rules do support an interpretation that the default society ought to be gender-equal, if only because there are NO gender differences described in the rules. The strongest woman in the world can be as strong as the strongest man in the world, and so on for all of the attributes modeled in the game. This certainly does NOT match what I see in the world I live in, where the strongest men seem considerably stronger than the strongest women. That's not to say definitively that women CAN'T be stronger, but I definitely see that on average, men are stronger physically than women, and that can't help but have an effect on their social roles. So for whatever reason, men and women seem to be different in terms of their relative physical strength (if by no other measure) in the D&D world than in this world, and so it's natural to assume that the gender roles are different as well. That's for the "default" D&D setting, obviously; this says nothing about what any individual DM ought to do in their campaign. Just a note to say that the default setting is likely to have different (and perhaps more equitable) gender roles than our own world does. [/QUOTE]
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