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- From: jmorrill@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John M Morrill)
- Subject: Re: honorifics, MU*s, bronze/gold pairings
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.185545.18359@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:55:45 GMT
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- Everything we discuss here is speculative, we have no other choice. I just
- finished a long reply where I speculated why golds can not chew firestone and
- flame. The *real* reason they can not is that Ann says they can not, my
- explaintion is but a mental exercise.
-
- You will not throw a monkey wrench in the MU*s that allow women to ride colors.
- The reason that woman ride the colors on MU*s is because the game would not
- work otherwise. We can make up any explaination we want, but the fact is, a
- good leader on a MU* (be it wizard, craftmaster, etc) when faced with a choice
- between what makes the game work better, and what is in the Pern books, will
- conveniently ignore the books. This is nothing new, the MU*s have conveniently
- ignored AtWoP.
-
- And once the powers that be on the Mu*s have chosen to ignored AtWoP and
- other troublesome parts of the books, they can not go running back to
- the books to justify decisions such as not giving female character's that
- impress the colors honorifics. F'lor and Lessa may have decided that female
- riders will not have honorifics, but by the MU*s time period, they have been
- dead for 250 - 500 turns. There are new weyrleaders now, it should be their
- decision.
-
- I guess for some reason, I feel this need to be flamed, because it occurs to
- me that denying honorifics to female riders of the colors is sexist. You
- need these riders to fill the Weyrs, therefore they must be given all rights,
- duties, responsibities and privileges given to male riders. No ifs, ands, or
- books!
-
-
- I have no opinion on whether males should be able to impress golds and
- females impress bronzes. I am one of those rare players that preferrs to
- play a crafter. I will say that if Ambar is hearing people discuss it
- during the hatches, it may be something that should be considered.
- PERNMush should not look at their 60+ a night WHO list and believe that
- players will always flock there regard of what policies at set.
- Popularity is fickle and the mighty do fall.
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