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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

      1/ modern TTRPGs are absolutely hilarious with gender denialismpic.twitter.com/Pk4Qoke6fg

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

      2/ yes, a deep see whaling vessel will employ women to use their upper body strength to throw 30 lb harpoons into whalespic.twitter.com/vxErJpW6M8

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

      3/ I don't get nearly as upset at the race mashups that some TTRPGs do. I can easily imagine some alternate history where Nigeria developed more quickly and Igbo princes landed in London and formed an alliance, or something.pic.twitter.com/vlXAWDOpSh

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

      4/ That's possible, and does not violate anything we know about England, Nigeria, human status dynamics, etc. In fact, as a scenario, it's even an interesting play on the Norman conquest and other historical precedents for elites mingling or replacing each other.

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

      5/ I also do not mind women in "male" roles in science fiction. Everyone loves Ripley in the Alien franchise, Heinlein had female spaceship pilots, and I had a nod to that in Aristillus w Darcy being a navigator.

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    6. ⓘ 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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    7. ⓘ 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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    8. Dedicating Ruckus‏ @ded_ruckus 8 Sep 2021
      Replying to @MorlockP

      That's kind of the approach Stirling took for Martians in Courts of the Crimson Kings -- they were a human subspecies that had very little sexual dimorphism (thus justifying the female lead being a bodyguard/mercenary)

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Sep 2021
      Replying to @ded_ruckus

      I read that book and enjoyed it, but I forget - was it explained how we were related to the martians ?

      11:37 AM - 8 Sep 2021
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        1. Dedicating Ruckus‏ @ded_ruckus 8 Sep 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          It was something about ancient aliens terraforming Mars and Venus ~100-200kya, and dropping seed populations of Earth humans there

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