Re: How many ships in Fleet? (LONG)

Good point! Of course, that was true of older women in the Middle Ages too,
and they were often burnt as witches unless they had a male supervisor. :)

Yours,
Sable

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From: "Richard Gant" <gantr@???.edu>
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Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] How many ships in Fleet? (LONG)


> On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Sable O'Malley McRoy wrote:
>
> > 3) And if women are chattel, then it's perfectly acceptable to keep them
> > barefoot and pregnant until they die in childbirth.  Then you take more
> > wives and keep them barefoot and pregnant.  The people of our middle
ages
> > knew all about it.
>
> On the other hand, Scro society may be far more egalitarian than the
> stereotypical Orc society.  Particularly for women past child-bearing
> years.  They probably have a few decades left (assuming they live around
> 50 years, and they are fertile from around age 13 to age 35-40), and they
> need to do *something*.
>
> I suspect that the Scro women may also be the smiths, craftsmen,
> sailmakers, and so forth.  They have time to do stuff while the children
> are asleep, after all...
>
> Rich Gant
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