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Mar. 13th, 2006 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynDear Brane:
As of this application cycle, you already have enough characters at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
milliways_bar. They all are quite useful and fulfil appropriate roles. Granted, Jah-lila is there mostly so that you can say 'I have a non-human character who will never become human', but that's still a purpose. You do not need more.
Even if Camilla n'ha Kyria, of the Darkover novels, could seriously beat the living snot out of anybody who got all weepy and womanly angstish over being in a bad position 'cos of pregnancy, social stigma, and/or low social standing.
(For reference's sake, Camilla is one of the Free Amazons of Darkover, a society of women who voluntarily renounce all privilege and obligation associated with being a woman in a feudalistic, quasi-medieval society. They generally come to this position through being hit with the worst their society has to offer. Camilla was gang-raped, became pregnant by it, and became so revolted at her own womanhood as a consequence that she found someone willing to not only abort the baby for her but perform a full hysterectomy and oophorectomy so no one would ever look at her as a lust object again. And then she found the Amazons, who taught her to stand on her own and defend herself and others. She does not put up with spinelessness in women.)
(Also, Marion Zimmer Bradley sort of had gender issues.)
As of this application cycle, you already have enough characters at
milliways_bar. They all are quite useful and fulfil appropriate roles. Granted, Jah-lila is there mostly so that you can say 'I have a non-human character who will never become human', but that's still a purpose. You do not need more.Even if Camilla n'ha Kyria, of the Darkover novels, could seriously beat the living snot out of anybody who got all weepy and womanly angstish over being in a bad position 'cos of pregnancy, social stigma, and/or low social standing.
(For reference's sake, Camilla is one of the Free Amazons of Darkover, a society of women who voluntarily renounce all privilege and obligation associated with being a woman in a feudalistic, quasi-medieval society. They generally come to this position through being hit with the worst their society has to offer. Camilla was gang-raped, became pregnant by it, and became so revolted at her own womanhood as a consequence that she found someone willing to not only abort the baby for her but perform a full hysterectomy and oophorectomy so no one would ever look at her as a lust object again. And then she found the Amazons, who taught her to stand on her own and defend herself and others. She does not put up with spinelessness in women.)
(Also, Marion Zimmer Bradley sort of had gender issues.)
