1/ modern TTRPGs are absolutely hilarious with gender denialismpic.twitter.com/Pk4Qoke6fg
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7/ No mere minor twist of history (Nigerian princes sailing up the Thames) is going to change this. You can introduce much much much bigger changes, deep in prehistory, that change what we are as a species ...but then you've radically redefined "male" and "female".
8/ WHAT IF ... women were, on average, as tall and strong as men...except also they can have kids. That's not a very common model in biology. Bucks and does are not the same size. Roosters and hens are not the same size. Building size and mass is super expensive in calories
9/ The ONLY REASON that men are as large and strong as they are, despite the costs, is that historically, on average, smaller and weaker men did not reproduce as much as bigger and stronger men.
10/ If you want to write a science fiction novel about an alien species that has different genders, that's cool and interesting. Go for it. I've read a few and it's a fertile (heh) area for exploration. ...but using a standard human species in standard-ish history and >>>
11/ positing "ok, in MY world we don't have sexism, so everyone agrees that women can be JUST as useful on the battlefield / whaling ships / whatever as men" is just breathtakingly silly.
12/ I think a lot of this nonsense in TTRPGs comes from people who have never gotten outside and done actual work, or participated in martial arts, or played football, or lifted weights. I can throw my wife over one shoulder and walk around with her. The reverse is not true.
13/ Same here ... and I'm about as based and red pilled as they get. I'm not upset that Ripley was a woman (she used a power loader to fight the alien queen) or that Parker (Yaphet Koto) in the same film was black. 0.00001% of people object to this. https://twitter.com/robo_tabby/status/1435587209298599943 …
14/ what we are all upset about is that (a) there's no thought at all given to any of this, it's just "imagine the middle ages...but without all the yucky sexism and unfair prejudices about out of wedlock birth and reproduction" (b) it's all 100% current year ideology
23/ wherein the author of the TTRPG does a drive by, reads the first tweet in the thread and nothing else, and embarrasses himselfhttps://twitter.com/ZweihanderRPG/status/1435648608246943746 …
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Downthread I specifically called out how alternate histories can explain some things, @ZweihanderRPG , for example, if you wanted to have black royalty in the UK, that could absolutely work, but they CAN'T be used to handwave "suddenly women have 3x upper body strength".
25/ me: here's an argument, with facts to back it up some rando: <ritual incantations about social power and shaming> extraordinary https://twitter.com/Rivetgeek/status/1435650819735490565 …
26/ the graph shows, looking very very closely, TWO seventy year old women who have slightly better than average 70 year old men But, yes, adventurers are outliers. I like this view. what woman matches an outlying male adventurer? absolutely none.https://twitter.com/sarcastic_kilah/status/1435655521508347907 …
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the absolute strongest female athlete is about as strong as the average male (NOT the average male athlete)
yes, this makes perfect sense
thank you for gathering more data to support my thesis @metricreject ; it's appreciatedhttps://twitter.com/MetricReject/status/1435657745211039745 …
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Also, when we pair this with the point that @sarcastic_kilah made, that adventurers are all outliers, the great data that @metricReject provides shows us that not even elite female athletes could be adventurers.
Again, absolutely great data.
Do you work at Cato, btw?
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