Some of these qualities are diametrically opposed however. And sometimes it just takes two people to tackle a problem.
men and women are literaly made for one another. i dont know how such a wholesome statement could be considered so controversial. For what its worth, men and women do things differently and thus they get things done.
This might be a bitter pill to swallow but some characteristics are immuteable and some things you cannot escape, unless you count hormone therapy which literaly changes your brain chemistry, but thats too complex a topic to get into right now.
Id like to remind you of that book about a woman who decided to live as a man for a year, only to discover that despite herself seeing herself as a very masculine woman, men saw her as an overly feminine men when disguised.
Im not saying you CANNOT have feminine traits as a man and vice versa. Im saying that youll eventually be a man with some feminine qualities. These cannot just be swapped around.
And this only takes into account a single Human beeing. Once you introduce more people (such as in lets say an adventuring party) you start getting group behaviours which are even more influenced by evolutionary biology. Read up on the American military and how group dynamics change when women and men are in mixed units. The same behaviour when done by a man and by a woman will have a different effect.
And no, this is not due to some kind of negative tinted "sexism" or anything else nefarious. This is due to men and women beeing different, having different bodies and having different evolutionary pressures. it is human instinct to save a woman. An instict that both men and women share. This comes from the simple fact that if half your men died, your tribe could recover within one generation, if half your women died the same wasnt true. And such people in combat situations will always gravitate towards securing the womans safetey. Hence why a woman leading the charge in the same way as a man would, leads to a different leaderhsip effect.
A man charging headlong into the fray will show his commitment to self saccrifice for the cause. a woman charging headlong into the fray will prompt a protective response from the rest of the team.
Spacehamster: So you have STUDIED "Feminist theory" but evolutionary biology sounds like pseudoscience to you? yeah lets agree to disagree because i dont think this is going to get anywhere.
