Also IMO having the option to intimidate her to submission sort of feeds into the commonplace (idotic) notion/fantasy that all dominant women are just women who haven't met a REAL MAN, or some such utter nonsense.
I think that was meant to reflect Githyanki culture. She also approves when the character dominates others.
Well, I was pointing out meanings based on few core beliefs:
1)Stories are not self-contained things, which among other things, means they (knowingly or otherwise) reflect and reinforce the culture/reality we live in IRL.
2)No writer has control of all the levels of meaning in her/his work.
You stating that the option to top Lae'zel, is in accordance with the lore, is IMO just a way of saying the writer fully means(controls the meanings they impart in the text) what they say, and that meanings are contained within story/lore, with no ties to to IRL.
But I'm not sure the choice you're given is as lore friendly as you make it seem. Well I'm no dnd expert, but the gith seem to believe the strong should lead(warrior culture that respects prowess), but at the same time view other races as primitives and slaves. Plus they're at least semi-matriarchal since their main faction is led by an lich-queen they revere as a goddess. So I'm not so sure her insta-submission to my drow warlock male even reflects gith culture very well.
Also her approving that we dominate others, doesn't translate to submissive tendencies. IMO being a wuss, or not exerting power over others just makes the PC seem weak and not worth keeping around(or dominating. I mean what's the point of domming some gobbo toelicker, eh?). Or so I'd assume. She also sets out to dominate the PC at the party, only to seemingly submit and forgo her core "kink", if you intimidate her.
