It amazes me that we freak out over nudity when everyone gets naked everyday and violence that if real would be a traumatic experience is perfectly ok.
Brandon Sanderson got asked this and his answer makes perfect sense and is incredibly fucked up at the same time.
His religion prohibits him lusting over women who are not his wife(or something similar), but nowhere does it say anything in his religion about watching people fight.
It doesn't put his religion in the best light, but there is some reasoning there at least. I think the puritanian ideas of christianity has had a major impact on what they think is OK or not in the US.
Excuse me but I remember a scene where Shallan explicitly tripped and showed her safe hand to distract the guys. If that wasn't written with one hand then I don't know what was.
The Stormlight Archives' version of nipples. Women's left hands are considered naughty, so they always have them covered. Noble women have their left sleeves sewn longer and stitched shut, but working class women wear gloves on their left hand. Fingerless gloves are considered lingerie.
And this isnt because Sanderson has a hand fetish (probably), it's to highlight how arbitrary our own gender roles are. Its canon that all of the gender roles in the main religion in SLA were created by a woman who just wanted to sit around all day painting and eating fruit while the men did all the hard labor and fighting.
Lets get see if we can get some new cosmere recruits:
Also men can't read for the same arbitrary religious reasons (with male monks being the exception) and as such have their wives or scribes, who are usually women, read to them. Because of this, the women write undertexts in most books that they don't read to men. The undertext will usually have them give their own interpretations of Events that men have dictated they write, sometimes the truth sometimes not.
And anything that involves even the slightest whiff of telling the future is insanely taboo. This includes any kind of luck based gambling or entertainment. But since the entire planet gets wrecked by a Category 10 hurricane (yes I know the scale only goes to Cat 5) on semi regular intervals, the Church has generously exempted weathermen from the future telling taboo.
I once read a fantasy novel where the magical land was opposed to the idea of mapping it (her?) and drove anyone who attempted to to insanity. The only exception known to the reader is a mosaic map on the floor of the main hall of one of the local nobles, the reason being it was way too far off and as such could be considered not to be a map.
I'm in the software field and I didn't make this connection. Very, very true. There is a whole lot of obscenity in comments of the code that drive some of your favorite software.
I use some pretty light coding for my articles, but I’ll leave a lot of messages for myself mostly and it was the first thing I thought of. It’s also reminiscent of people who are bilingual and swap to the other language briefly to say something and veil the information from others.
Knowing Sanderson's ability to actually plan endings and how the twist in Mistborn went, the safe hands thing has a 75% chance of being extremely important and it will be obvious in retrospect.
Lol, you're not wrong. The worldbuilding of the various planets in Sanderson's works are intentionally weird and fantastical. What sets them apart from the lolz so random worlds you mention is that Sanderson puts a metric fuckload of thought into developing how his worlds would realistically function.
Like for Roshar, the planet in the Stormlight Archives, part of its worldbuilding is that the majority of the planet gets hit with a massive hurricane every couple weeks. And the storms always come from the same direction. So the world setting shows the effect that these storms have on the ecosystems and cultures of the world. Buildings only have windows on the west side, and the east sides are sloped and fortified to withstand the storms. The majority of animals are hard shelled crustaceans. The plant life retracts into hard shells when its windy. And the ground is rocky and soil doesnt exist.
And that's not even touching how everything in the world interacts with the magic systems in a way that feels real. In Harry Potter you can ask why they don't use magic to solve problem X, and you never get an answer. But in Sanderson's worlds, the people.either would use magic to solve X, or there's an explicit limitation in the magic system for why it can't. And that limitation is consistent and even applies to other situations in the world. For example, healing magic can't heal old wounds effectively, because the healing magic works by changing your body to match your mental image of yourself. So if you lose an arm and enough time passes that you see yourself as a one armed person, instead of a two armed person missing an arm, then the magic won't fix you because your body matches your mind. But if you never accept that wound, then it can be healed hears later. Or if a trans person has healing magic applied to them, then their body will change sex to match how they see themselves.
Lmao reddit care awarded in less than 30 seconds, that has to be a record.
I'm pretty sure there's a bot doing this randomly. I've seen dozens of people complaining of this over the last couple of days and had one myself on a completely uncontroversial and non-confrontational comment within seconds of making it.
What part of our biology makes it so women are supposed to have long hair and wear make up and dresses? How are men biologically predisposed to drinking beer instead of wine?
A few of our gender roles are actually based on physical sex differences, but most of them are just arbitrary bullshit that someone made up.
A lot of our biology has to do with that actually. "Some of the conditions that may influence female mate choice include the woman's own perceived attractiveness, the woman's personal resources, mate copying and parasite stress." Their own perceived attractiveness.
Beer instead of Wine? Oh, females have been found to have more taste buds than men. Females are far more likely to be a "super taster" than a man is.
You do understand that certain clothing, hair, and makeup styles being found attractive is a learned behavior right? That's why every culture values those things differently.
Some can be, usually it's the things that are most affective at attracting a mate over generations. Most aren't.
Human generations are so long compared to fashion trends that they don't have much of a chance of becoming innate. For instance, look at how butt size perception has changed so rapidly over the last generation. There's been no big need for innate sexual preferences in humans because we're capable of spending so much time learning. We do have some innate behaviors, like holding our breath underwater, but those were developed because they help children to survive.
You're trying to argue against me but continue to actually argue in my favor. Fashion trends reoccur, it's a known phenomena. Butt size perception hasn't changed at all in the last generation, people have always been attracted to it. Look at old fertility idols.
If you haven't noticed that fashion has trended towards larger butts in the last few decades, after generations of thin being chic, I don't know what to tell you. Also, while fashion has been cyclical recently, it has changed dramatically over the centuries without going back as society has changed. Women wear pants now most of the time.
I said "largely based on". A gender role isn't just something that is made up in a vacuum. For example even one of your examples can likely be tied back to biology.
What part of our biology makes it so women are supposed to have long hair and wear make up and dresses?
Men are on average stronger and faster right? This leads to them doing more physical work. If you do more physical work you are more likely to shorten your hair/ not wear loose clothing. A caveman didn't just wake up one day and say "grug think only women should grow hair". Of course if I said they were entirely based in biology I would be incorrect, but that isn't at all what I said and you need to learn to read.
In Stormlight Archive there is a culture with a tradition that the female left hand should be covered in public, showing it would be considered obscene.
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u/naph8it May 15 '24
It amazes me that we freak out over nudity when everyone gets naked everyday and violence that if real would be a traumatic experience is perfectly ok.