Inarai wrote...
relhart wrote...
Being a woman and having been in the military I can say that this is plain false. I'm sure from a politicaly correct point of view there are a lot of people who WANT it to be true, but PCness starts to fail when you start blindly believing what you want to in it's name, and ignore reality. On averave men have much better ability to both build and maintain musculature, they also have much better hand eye coordination, their brains are built around manipulating spatial relationships. Like I said though, thats on average, thats not saying if you pick a random woman and a random man out of a crowd, the woman won't be better at those things.
I'm sure if you don't have much contact with "MEN" and instead are mostly familiar with pasty PC gamers, you might have trouble buying into that. If both sexes are from good genetic stock, and build their bodies and minds to be the best warrior they can, the man will always comeout on top in matters of physical combat, despite what your anime might tell you.
Wow, you're just full of senseless assumptions, aren't you?
If 9-10 years of martial arts have taught me anything, it's that all the strength in the world isn't going to turn a fight the same way skill or speed can. It certainly makes a difference, but once you get beyond the point of a couple of idiots throwing sloppy-ass punches at each other, the equation gets changed. You have to factor for so many things that relate to how agile and quick a person is. Hence why I said its delusional to think raw strength is the whole story.
As far as anything neurological goes, you have ot realise that's trained from birth. Our brains are so wonderfully adaptive that they can be good at pretty much anything - even if that individual belongs to a group that does not typically train in that task. When you learn something, your brain forms new connections - and it's best at doing so early on in life, when typically males are involved in activities that more closely mimic combat (IE, mock sword-fights, etc). In short, the brain is built around what you do, especially in early life. If you take someone who performs tasks in development which require hand-eye cooridination and manipulation of spatial relationships, a brain that seems to be built around those things is precisely what you'd expect to see. Which kinda goes back to the whole point about stereotypes.
Of course, a discussion of relative ability is merely tangental to this thread, which specifically discusses the very binary question of whether it's possible at all for women to be good warriors, and I don't think you'd disagree with the idea that it is quite possible - especially in a more martial/equal/semi-barbaric world where war is more prevalent.
In fact, some of the in-game text would suggest that combat is just part of Ferelden's culture, anyways.
Um, what are you smoking? She FLAT OUT said all things being equal, man and woman, same training, same amount of time spent conditioning themselves, the man will win, on average. Which is true. Not just on a physical standpoint, our brains are built differently, we see things differently, we can lead targets better.... mens 3d imaging software is better
.... I'm not being a sexist here, I'm just stating facts.
On the same token on average if a woman is under fire, on a comms piece, and shooting back at the same time, she's probably going to kick a guy in the same situations ass. Women are far better at multi tasking. The guy will likely get shot by someone walking out from behind a wall that the woman would have seen.
Jebus people, there are huge differences between the sexes that make each much better on *average* than the other. Men are good at fighting, its what we do... even in the rogue category. Mages? I can see women being better at that, or at least equal... magic is so varied in application and type in various different fantasy settings that in some men would do it better and in some women would.... Forgotten realms-esque magic with chanting while waving hands and remembering to toss a pinch of dust at exactly the right moment... women would definitely have the advantage there.
To put it into perspective:
Male: Str +2
Women: Willpower +2
Exact same bonus amounts, but in different areas. YES women CAN make a good, even great warrior without the +2 str, but the man is going to be better at it for the most part.
The woman will be better if theres something that requires someone to last longer than just push out a whole boatload in one area all at once. (Even our adrenal systems maximize this effect, womens adrenaline lasts a LOT longer, but men get a lot more out of it over the short term, again, on average)
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