: Well, since you want a response...
Thanx
: You're right that the Greek, and to a lesser extent the
: Roman, armies were indeed hotbeds of homosexual
: behavior--but they *weren't* at the same time rife
: with homophobia. Sleeping with men *was* manly, for a
: Greek soldier. The Spartans reasoned that you'll
: protect your fellow soldier more fiercely if you're in
: love with him. The simultaneous
: homosexuality/homophobia seems to be an artifact of
: later cultures, where you've got a big pile of men but
: a socioreligious climate in which they're not allowed
: to do anything with each other..
Good point, but Myth is set in a Medieval climate, and we can also highlight many examples there, such as Richard Lionheart, who had a thing with the prince of France (or was it the King?). I would very much liken Alric to a Crusader, the ony difference being that he won...
: And GURPS says that most of the Myth unit types are, in
: fact, open to women. Women can join the Legion, or the
: Heron Guard; the nonhumanoid units like Krids and
: Mauls and Ghols are probably female half the time and
: we just don't know it. The main reasons why we don't
: *see* any women in-game are:
: a) there'd have to be
: *two* different units, like Male Legionnaire and
: Female Legionnaire, who look different but are
: functionally exactly the same, which would have taken
: Bungie more time to make and limited their options on
: most maps (because of unit limits, projectile limits,
: etc.), and
I'd more say that it was too much work, and it would mean people wouldn't be paying as much attention to the game action. It would have been interesting, though...
: b) Bungie's said that one of the reasons they made Shiver
: ugly was that there were issues with "14-year-old
: boys hacking up beautiful women," and I think
: this applies to female characters in general. Not so
: much that Bungie would worry that killing lots of
: girls would turn their younger players into sadistic
: perverts (except the ones at soulblighter.com and
: spleaf, who already are), but that Bungie would worry
: that assorted media watchdogs and politicians would
: shout about it. You can see that, even in Oni, the bad
: guys are all (as far as we've seen) male. You just
: catch less media flak that way, especially when you're
: going for gory realism.
Another good point. Those darn censors :)... I say it's sexist. Why is it always us poor men who are stomped on so cruelly?... I think that it'much safer, and more "histroically believable" (<- he said cautiously) to have the Mythworld a pit of mysogeny (correct my spelling when it's wrong, my only dictionary at hand is German), where women are cruelly bound to servitude and manlyhood is measured by the size of one's Hareem... Mythworld Marriage Ritual would be an interesting study if only we had any source material...
Anyways, thanks for the insight!
Da Pacifist
