Re: What's a Keyword? Gender Issues

From: markmohrfield <markmohrfield_at_...>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:40:03 -0000

wrote:
> The question, then, is what the men would want the
> women to do regarding daggers.
>
> Do they want them to keep them to protect themselves against other
men? Or
> do they want them to be unarmed so they can't resist their husbands?
I think
> either rationale works.
>
> Mike

I guess that works for the Dara Happans. The one I really have trouble believing is that the equally patriarchal Carmanians train their women in sword and shield.

                                                   Mark Mohrfield