Thread:Vae Victis/@comment-6042046-20130526090455/@comment-6042046-20130623222412

"But there have always been powerful women - the importance of feminist movement is that it's a political movement."

The women I noted are not exceptions to a rule. From what I've seen, equalized civil rights already exist -- but quite possibly only to a certain degree, which is the ambiguity I mentioned. Frustrating, that.

Women's inheritances, properties and earnings are their own, even after marriage. Divorces are no longer biased against them. Females have full access to college and they can become professors. They have opportunities to enter professions previously barred against them; there are doctors, lawyers, business owners, captains, civil servants, and so forth. There is some scandal associated with female doctors, civil servants and probably a host of other jobs, but they're there; numerous women successfully hold esteemed positions. The legal accessibility has arrived. The social acceptance lags behind.

"... which means I'll have to wait for the Parliament content for all that sweet political drama :("

Yeah, about that: I can't discern if women have voting rights. Maybe I just haven't encountered the related content. It would be super silly if they didn't have them -- the Masters have no obvious sex* and they run the city alongside the Bazaar, a sentient marketplace! :P

* Y'all know I speak of a creature's biological birth sex, yes? Not the...other...sort.

There's a large segment of the populace who claim to have no gender, both, or they interchange on a daily basis. That must be quite the headache for those arguing for or against a specific sex.