(07-24-2014, 04:06 PM)TheLastCandle Wrote:(07-24-2014, 03:44 PM)Gaspard Wrote: I usually don't think about it too much. I think Gender equality was pretty much established in the game the moment they've made every single leader of the three main cities a female. In regards to us, that'd be like America, Russia and Korea all having Female Presidents/Leaders.
So I'd say that Eorzea has no true Gender Roles (Given that females occupy so many vast and different roles, in a way, just as various as the ones that males do), and you can find both sexes in each type of job, faction and the likes. It's probably a matter of choice for many whether they adhere to old values of Chivalry (and likewise the females of their nurturing responsibility towards men and children), or whether they adopt more divergent philosophies.
The only ones that come loaded with a good degree of Gender Roles and Gender Inequality would be both Miqo'te sects. Seekers run a straight Patriarchy, where 'Big Daddy' Aka the Nunh has all the say and the rest is there to serve him/serve the pack, and likewise Keepers run a straight matriarchy, where you may very well consider it an Amazon like society, with men serving as little more then the walking child dispensers, and perhaps boys to be emotionally pampered by mommy, never burdened with the responsibility to become leaders as it's not in their nature. But beyond those two, I can hardly see any Gender Roles and/or differences being present in Eorzea, except for what singular Characters might consider their own opinion on it.
I can't help but find that last paragraph a rather.. oversimplified view of both Miqo'te cultures' workings, but I agree with everything else. Certainly with gender equality being the 'norm' in most of Eorzea. Even Ishgard has its share of female knights serving in the ranks, judging from NPC representation.
It is definitely over-simplified, And I am quite sure there are exceptions to it. However, with Keepers aswell as Seekers, both Patriarchy/Matriarchy seem to be ingrained Tribe properties, and are far more instinctual (and evolutionary) then anything else. My personal theory is that tribe-born Miqo'te for one are more tribal by nature (If raised in a tribe), and that also their sexual instincts do require those dynamics in order for them to be..well, willing to mate. Ofcourse played characters often do represent a large exception to Eorzeas actual citizens.
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