Well bully for you! Look, most feminists I've met are women and most _do_ dream of power over men and from other people I've talked to in a wide variety of positions in life, I find this is a common view. No smoke without fire eh? Course, doesn't mean they are all like that. However, to make a point, _I_ believe men and women are different but equal. I'm not a feminist or whatever but I really couldn't give two tosses for the issue, it gets in the way of living a life already full of the irritaitions of the rat race.
You then follow your complaint with something that had me laughting for hours, it was wonderful, please don't stop this kind of thing, lifes too short to miss out on such wonders of comedy!
>For better or worse, Esrolia has been described as "a
>matriarchy." But what exactly does THAT mean? <Stuff deleted>
>Because they lack a womb, the source of all originality, men
>are seen as imitative and having little ability to be innovative.
>Because they lack breasts, men have no instinct for the most
>subtle of gustatory nuances. (Thus they can be adequate, or
>even good [if simple] cooks, but never great chefs.) Because
>they have no menstrual cycle, men have no innate sense of
>rhythm, time, space, or seasons. Men also have more difficulty
>with concentrating, using verbal and nonverbal communication,
>and understanding others. It is probably only in the Esrolian
>cult of Lhankor Mhy that men are recognized as being able to
>think as clearly and logically as women.
>Men are seen as being naturally drawn to working with fire, as
>young boys quickly learn to put out a fire by peeing on it.
>Young boys also love to play at crudely cooking over fires. In
>addition, men are the 'handsome' sex, naturally intended to
>raise children after women have bourn them. Men have
>stronger muscles (although the female body is stronger than
>the male body in every other way) and are aggressively
>territorial; they are the natural willing protectors of women,
>children, and the home. Thus, Esrolian men are competent
>homemakers, enjoyable ornaments, pleasing sexual
>companions, devoted sons, loving husbands, and (when
>necessary) expendable protectors.
This is wonderful stuff, totally hilarious! Look, this _is_ a feminists dream world you're spouting. A perfect feminist society in an imaginary game? I don't believe it could happen in a game world based on human intereraction because it doesn't happen in the RW and we must base all our views of Gloranthan social intereaction largely on this point, what else have we to compare it too? Life on Venus?
Look you have your views, I'll have mine and lets agree to disagree, its a free country/world. This is not the place to argue feminist theory. If you want to do that, take it off line and E-mail me okay?
Martin "that old Masogenistic bastard" Laurie
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