I agree with Samantha - fantasy is about impossible things that violate the laws of physics, like magic spells, dragons, and women with sufficient upper body strength to hold their own against men in battle.https://twitter.com/say_shannon/status/1213413843365507072 …
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3/ I've got friends who wear plate and scale and swing real steel weapons against real steel armor and helmets, and the sport is dominated by big beefy viking types who can squat / bench / move massive poundages. Knocking people over / swinging hard enough to break bones = win.
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4/ We have women-only competitions in running, swimming, weight lifting, basketball, soccer, ... EVERYTHING. Hell, even *** CHESS ***. This is not because men are sexist. It's because evolution is.
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6/ yes, I'm willing to say that women can do well in fencing / fancy duels with tons of artificial rules. but the topic is "female fighters in fantasy novels " do orcs acknowledge the point loss when the foil touches their lamé ? https://twitter.com/inviiiscerate/status/1213854299647860736 …
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7/ I could imagine an offbeat fantasy novel where orcs DO ! That might even be fun to read! ...but it's the non-central fallacy if we're talking "female swords [ men ? ] in fantasy".
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8/ yes, of course, bell curves existhttps://twitter.com/Ideoprax/status/1213856388751011841 …
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12/ laughs in [ both halves of ] Joss Whedon's River Tamhttps://twitter.com/wraithburn/status/1213880788149841921 …
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