puella -> RE: Why is female supremacy accepted but not male supremacy? (4/30/2006 4:20:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Najakcharmer Er, don't they call that Gorean? Actually no, though it is a common misconception. I am going to slip in a quote from myself here from another post: 'The ethos of Goreanism does not promote the idea that women are inferior to men. It does however promote the concepts of natural selection and natural order. Women , it proposes, in their most natural and simplistic states, will generally be found to be both physically weaker and (and to some degree therefor) submissive to men, as well as acknowledging a difference in temperament and behavioral patterns between the sexes... However, another tenet of Goreanism also proposes that many men (mainly Earth men, due to their societal conditioning...the books do work out of a sci-fi structure, of course) do not take up the reigns of natural order, and if they can not claim (not necessarily by He-man like means exclusively, either) what Norman labels their 'birthright', then there is every chance they will be subjugated by women who can prove themselves stronger. That scenario however, shows the dominance of a woman as an aberration not of the woman, but of the man. Throughout the books there are both examples of men falling into this self imposed subjugation (as well as the eventual 'righting' of the naturally dominant sex) as well as examples of women not only surpassing men in certain tasks (some which we would think to be assigned to men, in what most conceptualize as Gorean ethos) such as the slave luma who was the brilliant accountant and eventual estates-comptroller, for all intents and purposes, of Tarl/Bosk, as well as the Tatrix of Tharna, who was quite Dommie in her dominion, and of course, the rebellious and often quite ferocious jungle-trackers/female huntress-fighters, the Panther Girls. I will grant however, that it is not necessarily only a non-Gorean misconception that Gor is all about the inferiority of the female sex. Many who call themselves Goreans, seem to miss several rather important concepts set forth by the creator of that ethos, as stated above (probably as they did not take the time to read all the books). ' ...and blah blah blah.. that was a bit long winded on my part, sorry!
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