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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 650624" data-attributes="member: 6533">Man I miss Firefly.&nbsp; I was just going to suggest the Companion character.&nbsp; Isn't there something similar in the Dorsai books?Not too raise a dead horse......but there are existant matrileneal societies.&nbsp; I believe some of the Puebloes of New Mexico have or had some matrilineal traditions, and some jewish communities trace descent through the mother's line.&nbsp; There are probably others.&nbsp; Societies that respect elders tend to acquire powerful matriarchs fairly naturally.&nbsp; I don't think there were any recorded or observed problems in the father/son relationships in North American matrilineal societies.&nbsp; There have also been plenty of patriarchal cultures in which fathers had very little to nothing to do with the vast majority of child rearing, that's a very distinct issue in most societies.Just to demonstrate the presence of variety in our contemporary context.Also, ritual prostitution does tend toward societies that are different from many fantasy societies, but......a cult that originated in a different society could move into a campaign's current one, acquire protections as a recognized religion and then provide the society with a regulated and legal venue for prostitution.&nbsp; Even if the cult still kept its ritual low prices this would still provide benefits for the society at large by keeping things 'regular' and providing an option for supporting women and men who didn't have many other recourses that is largely tax free.And finally, the distinction between sex and gender is made for the sake of theory.&nbsp; At this point the term gender is properly only used in a discussion that presumes the presence of societally constructed divisions of behavior based off of sex.&nbsp; If the conversation assumes that all sexually divisible behaviors are inherent to the sex than you don't really need the distiction that using the different terms suggests.That's a distinction that's older than Butler.&nbsp; Who's work is very useful in a variety of contexts, even if not necessarily made with those contexts in mind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Strangemonkey, post: 650624, member: 6533"] Man I miss Firefly. I was just going to suggest the Companion character. Isn't there something similar in the Dorsai books? Not too raise a dead horse... ...but there are existant matrileneal societies. I believe some of the Puebloes of New Mexico have or had some matrilineal traditions, and some jewish communities trace descent through the mother's line. There are probably others. Societies that respect elders tend to acquire powerful matriarchs fairly naturally. I don't think there were any recorded or observed problems in the father/son relationships in North American matrilineal societies. There have also been plenty of patriarchal cultures in which fathers had very little to nothing to do with the vast majority of child rearing, that's a very distinct issue in most societies. Just to demonstrate the presence of variety in our contemporary context. Also, ritual prostitution does tend toward societies that are different from many fantasy societies, but... ...a cult that originated in a different society could move into a campaign's current one, acquire protections as a recognized religion and then provide the society with a regulated and legal venue for prostitution. Even if the cult still kept its ritual low prices this would still provide benefits for the society at large by keeping things 'regular' and providing an option for supporting women and men who didn't have many other recourses that is largely tax free. And finally, the distinction between sex and gender is made for the sake of theory. At this point the term gender is properly only used in a discussion that presumes the presence of societally constructed divisions of behavior based off of sex. If the conversation assumes that all sexually divisible behaviors are inherent to the sex than you don't really need the distiction that using the different terms suggests. That's a distinction that's older than Butler. Who's work is very useful in a variety of contexts, even if not necessarily made with those contexts in mind. [/QUOTE]

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