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- From: morpheus@cco.caltech.edu (Kynn Bartlett)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
- Subject: Those Wacky Cross-Gender Impressing Dragons
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 16:29:01 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <1992Dec21.230519.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
- >Maybe they did try it early on, but there *was* a genetic code implanted
- >for males only Impressing colors. After several failures, they gave up
- >offering females to the lesser dragons. Since that time, a mutation occured.
-
- >This has the advantage of explaining why no dragon in 2000+ years has
- >Impressed a woman, although it was evidently very important to Path (she
- >sought Mirrim out in the audience, recall). Do you really think that no
- >dragon in 2000+ years has preferred a woman? After all, the queen candidates
- >were right there on the Hatching Grounds; why wouldn't an eager green pick
- >one of them?
-
- Well, of course, we know the real reason is sloppy writing from Anne. :)
-
- >This may also explain why no other dragons have picked females since Mirrim;
- >perhaps Path was a unique mutation. After all, Pernese women have become
- >more equal in other ways since then--there are oodles of women in the crafts
- >in ATWOP. Why wouldn't more women be Impressed, since the Weyrs are the most
- >progressive in many ways, unless they were *unable* to Impress?
-
- This makes a bit of sense to me.
-
- >This has the disadvantages of 1. being rather speculative and 2. possibly
- >throwing a monkey wrench in MU*s that allow women to ride th colors (if
- >Path is a unique mutation).
-
- Nothing wrong with speculation, that's what most of this newsgroup is
- about. :)
-
- Monkey wrench? Naw. PernMU*s don't really care that much about sticking
- to theme. :) (Yes, you drooling MustBeInTheme Fanatics--there's nothing
- in the books, after Mirrim or before it, to suggest that Path is anything
- other than a one-time exception to the rule. *grin* And certainly ab-
- solutely nothing to support females riding blues and browns.)
-
- (I love doing stuff like this. Yes, I kick beehives, too.)
-
- >Comments?
-
- >--Semhaza
-
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