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(12-21-2014, 01:05 PM)Oscare Wrote: Sexual dimorphism is very common place in reptilians/reptilian-like creatures. I'm honestly not bothered by the fact that the males are 'larger' than the females because in nature, that tends to be the case anyway. Yes, it's a sex-appeal thing. Male lizards are larger than female lizards. While female snakes (anacondas, for example) are considerably larger than male snakes -- because it's a sex-appeal for the opposite sex.
... I shamelessly agree with Steel Wolf, by the way. Because god those horns are good.
Edit: I am kind of weirded by the lack of muscle mass on the females though. Usually muscle mass is equivalent -- males just have a more profound one. That did make me double-take, but it's not too bad once you get over it.
The problem of sexual dimorphism in fiction isn't that it shouldn't exist. It does. The problem is that it is over exaggerated. Yes, there is a size difference between male and female in any given species but that difference is generally overblown. It would be like if you had a species of bear where the male was huge and towering, but the female in the species looked adolescent. Most of the time, I can't tell the difference in gender in animals. This is because what animal they are should be more obvious than what gender they are. If you were to ask me what gender a snake was I would say "Hell if I know, it just looks like a snake to me."
Yes, I know we are talking about a human race here. However, I don't really consider humans as being any different from other animals in this regard. Gender is a social construct and in general humanity seems to focus much more on how the genders/sexes are different than similar. If you throw out the social construct of gender, men and women actually look really similar to each other. Though, it might be difficult to see that when society shames someone for having physical traits that are associated with one gender. (Examples include body hair/muscles on women and men with long head hair)
All of this to say one thing: Female Au Ra look like children next to the males.