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| Re: Femininity eh?? | |
| Posted By: hnc | Date: 1/11/07 4:40 p.m. |
In Response To: Femininity eh?? (N1NJ4) : Femininity and weakness are necessarily intertwined, simply because of what : they are. Hopefully I won't get in too much trouble for this, but look at : it from a human nature standpoint. Historically (I mean really : historically) men have been responsible for fighting. It is hardly : coincidence either. Testosterone is a great thing to have a lot of if you : are going to be fighting in a war. Generally in war (less so with today's : technology) the biggest and the strongest are the best fighters, and women : are just not genetically inclined to being the biggest and the strongest. : Because of this, and god knows what else, big strong women aren't : popularly considered to be particularly attractive. It is less of an issue : of how the game portrays the women, than what our society expects of them. : Traditionally, the traits of a warrior are male, while female traits are : decidedly not so. As a fighter, today's concepts of femininity are very : much undesirable, although changes in society are making this decreasingly : true. I agree that our societal concepts of femininity are not very well-suited to "fighter." But since you mentioned hormones - it turns out that women, on average, may make better use of adaptive strategy-switching techniques than men due to their fluctuating levels of circulating brain hormones.
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