Well I'm not an expert in dragon slaying. Are you? If not I'm not quite sure why do we keep arguing.
Your dragon. Your knight. Your argument. Did you say this without having a solid reasoning in mind, then?
Well I'm not an expert in dragon slaying. Are you? If not I'm not quite sure why do we keep arguing.
Well I'm not an expert in dragon slaying. Are you? If not I'm not quite sure why do we keep arguing.
So... if many knights were slayed... what did the one surviving knight do differently to all those other knights?
I saw a Komodo Dragon run from a group of photographers on YouTube. Does that count?Steerpike please tell me your a dragon slaying expert, you'll be my hero.
Well I'm not an expert in dragon slaying. Are you? If not I'm not quite sure why do we keep arguing.
Just going to leave this here to make a point -
I challenge anyone, however, to find a real life example of one who did not have a hormone imbalance, whether that imbalance was purposeful or not.
My point was that both genders have biases and stereotypes. Together they create sort of equilibrium. The last part is kind of subjective and a matter of personal perception.
We all use stereotypes. Every single one of us. Man and woman. We use stereotypes in the sense of placing people in groups with labels because we cannot actually process the ridiculous amount of people in the world around us. We don't have the capacity to think of all the people as individuals. So we put them in groups and we attach labels to help us. Most people don't do this to devalue others or to attack them. It's just a coping mechanism for living in a big world with lots of people.
What if it's wearing makeup and bats its eyelashes in a very alluring way?
Your dragon. Your knight. Your argument. Did you say this without having a solid reasoning in mind, then?
What if it's wearing makeup and bats its eyelashes in a very alluring way?
Maybe he was slightly better in fighting than other knights, no? What kind of answer are you expecting from me?
Eye-batting only works on me when my daughter does it, whether she is wearing makeup or not. She can pretty much get her way, within some rather broad limits
That is impressive and she could probably beat many/most men. I doubt she could best Bruce Lee or even Jet Li for that matter. My own point, for what it's worth (about $0.02), is not that women cannot achieve athletic greatness but that the highest level of athletic greatness is dominated by men.
I have no idea. I was curious, kind of brainstorming the possibilities and ideas.
I think you might be missing the point. The hero and the villain are both important. Between the two they're also diverse. As a stereotype, the women are mostly being left out. It's not just that men are brave knights and women are courtly ladies. It's that men are important to the story, and women are not.
Yes, there are male stereotypes, and I've known a few people who were more than a little messed up by them. Maybe if you were to isolate the spectrum of stereotypes and biases you might have an argument that there's a range in which they're both pretty significant.
But I'm not sure how you can casually jump the hurdle between being important or not. It seems like a bias that's pretty clearly on a different scale to me.
Is this a serious reply? As fantasy writers we write about things that aren't real. You have to be able to draw logical conclusions or make rational assumptions based on common knowledge. If you had to be an expert on dragons to write about them there wouldn't be any books with them.
I think the reason why women are often being left out is because many of the stories are about war. And men are predisposed to make wars that's why they are always in the middle of the action. My point is not to exclude females but to give them different roles. IMO, female warriors 'men with breasts' type is as stereotypical as housewife type.
I think the reason why women are often being left out is because many of the stories are about war. And men are predisposed to make wars that's why they are always in the middle of the action. My point is not to exclude females but to give them different roles. IMO, female warriors 'men with breasts' type is as stereotypical as housewife type.
OK, as you wish. My dragon is not that big. A knight can fight him. And strength matters because he needs to cut through the scales that protect vital organs. There are no weak spots. 15% in this case make huge difference. Does it make sense?
I think the reason why women are often being left out is because many of the stories are about war. And men are predisposed to make wars that's why they are always in the middle of the action. My point is not to exclude females but to give them different roles.
IMO, female warriors 'men with breasts' type is as stereotypical as housewife type.
You can see it in real history too. As I posted before, look at Jean de Clisson or any of the similar links people posted in this thread.You can write women in war, as soldiers, without resorting to a men with breasts stereotype. See, for example, Elizabeth Moon's character Paks. Moon herself was in the Marine Corps, as I recall.