User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20180902091449/@comment-4867780-20180907091950

You're quite welcome :) It's always a pleasure to offer answers, and I have to say the overall discussion is particularly interesting ^ ^

As acknowledged previously, having a parent like Lawrence is an incredible chance that virtually anyone would immediately jump on. I'm just saying that being his daughter remains distinctly preferable, because it comes with much greater relational perks and virtually no downsides, while sons wouldn't have the same opportunities and would have to deal with unpleasant comparisons that daughters never will.

In short, being Lawrence's son would be awesome, but being his daughter is super-awesome, so it is factually in the child's own best interest to be born a girl rather than a boy. It is also in Lawrence's own best interest for the exact same reasons, so he chose what is effectively the most beneficial path for everyone involved.

I firmly believe there is a logic to most everything in life, it's such that sometimes the logic is so nonesensical it might as well not exist ^ ^; I agree our perception of what's correct and isn't is primarily shaped by the world we grew up into, it's notably the point I was making regardiing Selforge citizens : what is improbable in our world is perfectly normal in theirs.

Honestly, I think female elves fall so often for male humans precisely because they are vastly more masculine than their hyper-effeminate elve counterparts. They may not be anywhere as beautiful, but aesthetics were always a secondary factor in female eyes.

What they are primarily attracted to is confidence and assertiveness, that is why they so irrationally flock to bad boys types like moths to a flame, until they are burnt baddly enough to finally get the point (at around 30 yo for humans), and start looking for a decent husband material instead of blindly following their hormones. Same for men, universally mesmerized by superficial beauty and paying a heartwrenching price until about the same age, at which point they begin to realize that a sweet wife is better than a hot bitch (whose hotness will be gone a few years later anyway).

So to get back on topic, I'd say females elves being strongly attracted to human warrior types is perfectly in tune with everything we currently know about female nature.

If you feel that men are "uggly creatures" despite being one yourself, then you definitely have "internalized misandry" ^ ^, Which then means you don't actually like what "you" like, but rather what you have been successfully brainwashed into liking. On the other hand, the fact you hate feminism on a conscious level suggests part of you hasn't quite capitulated to their balls-crushing rampant insanity, which is very positive thing in itself.

Masculinity is strength. Strength of character, and strength of action. As a matter of fact, muscular manly men are a whole lot stronger than cute femboys in both body and mind. Lawrence's appearence represents his boundless strength, as such the first category suits his personality and archetype vastly better.

"The only reason why men even exist is because women can’t do everything on their own due to the evolutionary cost of pregnancy."

Conversely, the only reason women exist is because men can't make babies. They are stronger, tougher, more rational, more stable and better organized. In fact, virtually every system our survival and civilization depends on is designed, built and maintained by men. Give them autonomous reproduction, and women come to an end. Which makes female supremacism such a ludicrous hypocrisy : without men to take care of virtually everything, mankind would fall to pieces in a single generation.

Empire fall for many reasons. The overall cause is society-wide decay, and male feminization is a major symptom. As you said, masculinity is the product of a harsh environment. In other words, it is the determination to survive against all odds. Take that away and what's left ? A nation of lambs waiting to be slaughtered, that's what ^ ^;

I agree the humancondition has been steadily improving in recent centuries, and particularly the last one in the wake of technological progress, that brought about an unprecedented level of stabiity and prosperity. Our overall history has not been just linear progress though, and often a succcession of improvement and regression alongside the rise and fall of great civilizations. For example, I'm pretty damn sure the era that followed the fall of Rome was a lot less stable and prosperous in comparision, and the same can probably be said for every major empire through human history, as it is in their nature to nurture order and progress.

According to the latest calculations, we have about 50 years left before the global resources human civilization depends on are thoroughly exhausted. So 100 years from now, we are more likely to see a massive surge of masculinity all over the world, as people and nations alike go full survival mode and constantly fight their asses off for the scraps needed to maintain their life support system a little while longer, eventually settling down into a sustainable low-tech neo-dark age. Until the eventual rise of the next empire.

Just my two cents, but all things considered it does seem the more probably outcome.

Thanks for your appreciation :) I usually define the character and world as an "idealist wish fulfimment", in which I tried to reconcile the two in a relatively satisfying way. Perfection is impossible, especially since each person has a different understanding of it, so I just tried to make it as good as reasonably possible. Seems it worked out well enough ^ ^