(10-17-2013, 08:25 AM)allgivenover Wrote: I actually think that both genders among Keepers would have a tendency to promiscuity, not just the males. And I also think bisexuality among females would be so commonplace that they wouldn't even require a word to describe it as anything different from the norm as we do. This promiscuity doesn't mean they would go about trying to lay with as many people as possible, or be vulgar, shallow, or shy away from emotional connections. I just don't think they'd have the same ideas about exclusivity or marriage that more contemporary cultures do, at least not until those ideas were transmitted to them from other cultures. Simply from the fact that there are just not enough males to go around. If you'd rather call it them being polyamorous rather than promiscuous, that's fine, that word might have a more positive bend to it.
Not following you when it comes to your claim that I'm applying modern western views of biological sex and gender to Miqo'te. I'm a poor fit when compared to those ideas myself, in fact there's pictures of me crossdressing - and not as a joke - in the real life picture thread on this board. As for how Miqo'te view gender and biological sex? It's anyone's guess really. SE gives us nothing on the issue. I'd wager that it's rather binary given that the game is developed by a Japanese company.
Exclucivity is not a recent thing. The majority of traditional socities studied made use of it. The only societies i can think of that had more relaxed patterns such as the Polynesians still had concepts of marriage and pair bonding. Just if someone wanted to go off and sleep with someone else they had to tell their partner. Pair bonding has proven to be highly advantageous towards propigating the species. The major exception has been harems and even then they were highly exclusive.
As for why I said it seems very western the whole idea of biological extientialism that seems to underline your premise has always come off as ignoring many traditional groups and building from the often false premise taken by many who uphold western gender norms as biologically based imparatives.
