On weakness

[culbutiri]

[So Nesir has been avoiding people for the most part, annoyed at the grief for Dax, angry at the fact her soul was trapped, but she's also going crazy with nerves about her part in the infiltration in a few days and she has a question she's been thinking about since she met Kuwabara.

She doesn't even have to pretend to look pale and worried]

Hello, my name do be Nesir Aeser and I do be having something to talk about. I do be aware that there do many people from many worlds here and we all do be different and having different strengths and weaknesses. But lately I did be coming across a worrying weakness and was wondering how many people did be sharing it.

Apparently there do be people who can no be fighting women. I do no be knowing if this do be some kind of curse, or just something in a different world that do be a problem. But I am sure I do no be needing to explain how people with this weakness are going to be in more danger than the rest of us, considering everything..

[As in: Ruana is a woman, Nesir actually doesn't care about most people, and is just interested in this concept, but it should be enough to worry others.] I do no be knowing if there would be a way to lift the curse, but I do be offering my help to anyone with similar problems who do be wanting to be overcoming this.

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[warriorscribe]

I'm not one of those people, and I cannot speak for all worlds, but in mine, women are...

*A pause to find the right words. It was a complex sort of thing as all such conventions seemed from the inside. In reality it was quite simple, of course.*

...often the source of a man's fondest memories, in mothers and wives. As well, they're the bearers of life - men are afraid combat would damage them beyond the ability to have children.

*Enoch smiles a little.* Though...in all my years, I've found women - and men as well - are much stronger than anyone gives them credit for. God's design is not so fragile.

[blackwitch]

'Can't fight women'..? Kyahaha, weird, isn't that so weiiird..? The guys who claim that are usually the first to try and smack you across the face a moment later!

[ Bitter? Evatrice? Obviously. ]

[culbutiri]

[She should have guessed it would have something to do with families. But it still didn't really make sense]

But that do be stupid. [She is nothing if not blunt] One of the warrior officers in my temple, she did be the greatest warrior I did be seeing, and she did be having three children! All at the same time!

[Nesir hadn't even known that had been possible.]

[culbutiri]

It do be weird. [She blinked at the second part] Well that surely do be meaning they can be fighting women? So it may not be a curse... Perhaps it do be a trick to have women feel bad about fighting them... [A cowardly trick...]

[technologic]

People who can't fight women? That's... really bloody weird. I've never met anyone like that before...

.. And it sounds like a pretty annoying curse to have, so hopefully there's a way to lift it.

[culbutiri]

[She's glad she's not the only one.] It must be, it must be putting them at a huge disadvantage in battle...

[technologic]

Yeah. Nearly all of the women I know are fighters, and they are pretty damn strong ones too. And with who is in charge here, not being able to attack women is a huge weakness.

[culbutiri]

It do be, and under the circumstances we do be needing all the fighters we do be having, and we can no be affording any weaknesses. Maybe someone with healing magic will be able to be lifting the curse.

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[reddeadvirtuoso]

[ahahahah no way she's talking to someone face to face after the dax thing and on a subject like this n o p e]

its from some stupid dated form of chivalry
way back when in the land of history and crusade murder the dudes were always the one suiting up in their shiny suits of armor and going out to kick each others asses while the chicks were stayin home to watch the kids and the peasants
so everyone thinks that girls cant stand up and fight on their own so the guys have to protect them!
which really just degrades to thinking they're not good enough for anything really
so they wont hit a girl because girls are weaker than them and itd be unfair

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[culbutiri]

[She should have known that Jade's world would have this kind of stupidity.]

i do never be hearing of this chivalry. that do be really stupid. why would you be leaving the women if you did be believing they could no be fighting what if their home did be getting attacked?

and who did be deciding that girls did be weaker, they must be no be meeting many girls. and why would it be being unfair even if they did be weaker, no one can be getting stronger if they do no be tested.

[So many questions, so many confusions. Jade's answer has given many more problems than solutions. But between her and Enoch's answers... Perhaps it isn't a curse]

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[reddeadvirtuoso]

[wow excuse you]

the point was to go beat up the fuckers that would threaten to pillage and plunder before they got to the town
some dudes would stay behind and guard everything but basically all the women and children were supposed to be protected i guess
i dunno whose idea it was i guess it came from some reasoning behind the chicks being the ones giving birth?
i dont know i spaced out during prehistory history
its unfair cause no one expected the girls to get any stronger than that so it was basically just like bullying weaklings from their point of view

[warriorscribe]

It is a matter of keeping them from harm, but...yes, they are not fragile at all.

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[culbutiri]

well it do be the most stupid reasoning i did be hearing, and i did be hearing some stupid reasoning before. but it do be explaining a lot, and if this do be the cause of this weakness then i do be thinking that the cure do just be to prove to them that their ideas do be stupid

[culbutiri]

Yes well I did be knowing that. What did the women in your world be saying about this?

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[cutestprogrammer]

Eh? There's nothing wrong at all at being a fighting woman. One of the strongest people I know is a fighting woman!

[blackwitch]

It's not a curse, I can assure you that. It just comes from the horribly old and stupid idea that women can't match up to men when it comes to that sort of stuff.

[ Obvious feminist over here.. ] So.. yeah, in a way it's definitely like a trick. The worst kind of trick thought up by chauvinist pigs!

[chevalier_mal_fet]

[Lancelot gives a shake of his head, his face disapproving.]

A man would truly be a fool to think himself unrivaled by a woman. No man, no warrior, of worth would judge an opponent by such an inaccurate measure. I have known women who would strike mortal fear in the heart of any wise and battle-tried man. Has someone misjudged you so, Nesir Aeser?

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[culbutiri]

No there do no be. [She looks stern] Though apparently there do be worlds that do be having very stupid ideas on the subject.

[ video] 1/?

[ainohenshin]

[ Oh god, even though she didn't mention his name, he could somehow feel that it was directed at him somehow. ]

2/?

[ainohenshin]

[ c'mon really Nesir? Kuwabara's just shocked. ]

3/?

[ainohenshin]

[ Was that what she meant when she said she'd help him?! ]

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[ainohenshin]

Did ya have ta put it that way?

[ he sighed. ]

It ain't a curse...it's just my honour code.

[culbutiri]

It do be the most stupid thing I did ever be hearing. Why would anyone be thinking women can no be fighting as well as men.

[She tilted her head] What do a chauvinist pig be?

[culbutiri]

They would be. A very true fool indeed. [She's angry now, which doesn't take much sadly.]

Yes, and they will be regretting it.

video I AM SO SORRY

[culbutiri]

Well I did be trying to help you. [She no longer looks calm and smiling, she looks angry and she doesn't care who sees it. Not only did he grossly underestimate her, he also apparently thinks her weak, and in trying to help him she exposed lack of knowledge to the tower at large.

Her accent is stronger than usual, her words mushing together as she tried to get them all out at once]

I did be hearing all about your honour code. You do be thinking me weak do you? Well you do be mistaken and you do be stupid. I did be trying to help you, and did you just be laughing at me? Thinking I did be some weak girl who can no be doing anything?