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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      6/ However, in medieval or colonial settings, facts of biology are going to dictate a pretty crisp distinction between male and female roles. Men are taller, stronger & far more replaceable in the reproductive cycle. There is no scenario w 18th c tech where women are whalers.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      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".

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      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

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      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.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      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 >>>

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      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.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      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.

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

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      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 …

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      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

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robert Kroese

      15/ yeshttps://twitter.com/robkroese/status/1435587304572215298 …

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      Robert Kroese @robkroese
      Replying to @MorlockP
      None of this would be as annoying, of course, if all of these bold fantasies didn't incorporate al the same alterations to reality in exactly the same way. Like, nobody is designing a cyberpunk RPG where traditional gender roles have returned
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted nzc

      16/https://twitter.com/ngvrnd/status/1435587943826079745 …

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      nzc @ngvrnd
      Replying to @MorlockP
      https://youtu.be/myx8bIy6-WY 
      5:57 AM - 8 Sep 2021
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🎤

          17/https://twitter.com/ListenHereJimbo/status/1435588398010544138 …

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           🎤 @Meijinsann
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Make fun of me all you want but idols adhere to traditional gender roles
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Sir 'Better Before Biden' Mycroft

          18/ "many"https://twitter.com/sir_mycroft/status/1435589010026639360 …

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          Sir 'Better Before Biden' Mycroft @sir_mycroft
          Replying to @MorlockP
          I don't know about whalers but there were many female pirates.
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

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          19/ yes https://twitter.com/robo_tabby/status/1435588891281694727 …

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Reject Metric

          20/https://twitter.com/MetricReject/status/1435590148524331010 …

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          Reject Metric @MetricReject
          Replying to @sir_mycroft @MorlockP
          in addition to the obvious point that noteworthy exceptions are noteworthy because they're exceptional; sailing ships had cabin boys (sometimes as young as eight years old), but for good reason they weren't expected to work the capstan or man the pumps
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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted

          21/ https://twitter.com/GeoGDF01/status/1435605024621608970 …

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Dr. Blast Hardcheese

          22/https://twitter.com/punch_sideiron/status/1435605627737448454 …

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          Dr. Blast Hardcheese @punch_sideiron
          Replying to @Pedantrynmotion @MorlockP
          > female characters I’m gonna stop you right there
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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted DANIEL D. FOX 

          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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          DANIEL D. FOX  @ZweihanderRPG
          1) Historically, Indigenous whalers spanned gender. Did you read the bibliography? 2) Historically, the Jersey Devil didn't exist. Did you read that this is an alternate history #ttrpg? 3) Historically, TTRPGs were written for men. Did you read that this is an inclusive game? https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1435583513462456322 …
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          24/ 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".

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted

          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 …

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted sarcastic

          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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          sarcastic @sarcastic_kilah
          An interesting thing about this chart is the outlying observations showing some women above the curve for men. Aren’t characters in TTRPGs by definition outliers from the norm in their setting? https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1435583658639904768 …
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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Reject Metric

          27/ 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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          Reject Metric @MetricReject
          Replying to @MorlockP @ZweihanderRPG
          "outlying observations" pic.twitter.com/eO8epWfSVx
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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021

          28/ 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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