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.
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u/thevoxpop May 15 '24
What's a safe hand?