Ihsalihna wrote:Dear Las Palmeras,
What gave you the genius idea of populating a comfy wholesome nation with tomboy catgirls?
Hello
Ihsalihna,
Latent classism, xenophobia and an influential Conservative Party whose dusty echo chamber is convinced the Age of Empires isn't over despite De-Colonization is hardly wholesome, but aight. Jokes aside, the issue with female gender roles in the Palmeran Isle/Tohorin is plainly that (
from a human perspective) a bunch of hammers were around when screwdrivers were required to drill bolts; you can eventually use a hammer for the job successfully but it may be seen as awkward. That is, the stratified patriarchal island society made due with what was available, and that was a massive surplus of women who had to take on roles that are traditionally male elsewhere, even after the turn of the Industrial Revolution, this includes many blue-collar jobs and military/police work. Considering this story takes place at the turn of the Sexual Revolution and Second Wave Feminism, the binary "girly-tomboy" trope is still very much held onto in-universe and even the socially conservative working class doesn't question this as long as they have football, fish-and-veggie pies and healthcare.
This idea was also hatched when Jordan Peterson and evo-psych bros were popular in the internet and when I was more hot-headed, as a joke meant to piss on those folk. And potentially also radfems if the whole "Is organic violence* Girl Power? Is it even grassroots?" theme is presented as I don't shy away from portraying Tohorinese women as every bit as cruel and sadistic as the Conquistadors they followed around. If one is more to-the-point, I guess a nature vs. nurture debate over the violent tendencies in catgirls can spring up and I intentionally leave it vague.
Oh and Harem anime and fantasy gender ratios too. Wanted to make something sexy very depressing. Yay.
I don't wanna break the PG-13 rule but this counts as culture and history, right?!
1) Do the Ghes keep their dead enemies' body parts as trophies? If so what parts and for what purposes? Musical instruments? Drums? Ash-trays?
2) Is there a type of death/soul trapping that the Ghesites would fear the most or are their spirits guaranteed to be carried by the winds where they're needed to go to?
BN/
The Untied State:
Uh, I dunno man. Like how regular people around the world treat cats and dogs? Like pets and companions and domesticated work animals. Dogs used to be eaten on an industrial scale but that became less popular over the centuries. BTW, "Catgirl" is a bit of a misnomer, they're genetically spliced humans, in all that it entails.