Not saying it was militarily effective. Just like “goddang Marcus, that barbarian’s naked”
I love the irony of this comment.
I am everything OP loathes.
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This went from the fantasy of World of Warcraft to the fantasy of legions of warrior women across the eons real quick.
If you had a female night elf warrior with 50 str, a male human warrior with 20 str and a female gnome warrior with 10 str; then it would look like a huge imbalance.
Stick a magical breastplate with 1200 str on them and it suddenly doesn’t really matter anymore.
Where is the TL;DR?
Magic elf man angry women might hold swords.
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The actual texts mention “long haired people,” they never talk about women at all, nor anything about female only tribes built like “brick houses,” rofl.
It’s not like it was some ancient language that scientists are having trouble understanding and translating, it was Spanish lol. If it was nothing but tribes of nothing but giant females, I’m pretty sure the Spanish would have said so.
Not only that, this is a horrible example to use in terms of “great female warriors” when the Spanish were slaughtering the natives left and right like they were nothing.
So yeah, once again, the Amazon Rainforest, on the complete opposite side of the planet from Greece, has absolutely nothing to do with the Greeks or their mythology on Amazons, female only tribes of warriors, rofl.
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It was named that because of the mythology, though.
Ok? I never said it wasn’t. People should maybe, oh I don’t know, actually learn to read the comments I respond to.
If you read your post carefully, you might see where misunderstanding could arise.
Ok, so point it out.
I like how you edited out the actual comment that I responded to, haha.
Yeah, it was irrelevant to the point.
You said that the Amazon and Greek Mythology were unrelated. Now, I suspect you meant that the former did not inspire the latter.
Uh, it was pretty relevant lol.
They are unrelated. The entire thing of female only tribes of warriors, Amazons, comes entirely from Greek Mythology, it has nothing to do with the Amazon rainforest, which was given it’s name something like 3000 years later. The Spanish never said anything about female dominant/only tribes “built like brick houses,” haha.
Pedantic or no, they’re emphatically related.
You missed from the outset. There are no male or female warriors in WoW. There are only body types 1 and 2.
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See what I mean? lol.
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I would argue that works of literature are a product of its time, and are not to be takes as history. And there is a lot to history we still, to this day, are learning. I mean, the Birka grave holds the remains of a female Viking. Not a woman who happens to be Nordic - but an actual Viking warrior. Who is female. We don’t even need to go into the Celts, and Boudicca, a woman who terrified the Romans. Plus, we literally have no idea what society was like for civilizations that pre-date the Fertile Crescent. All we have is best guesses based on what little anthropological data is available.
You might argue that these are only a handful of examples. That is not the case, rather, there is very little surviving historic record, especially when the pattern seems to be that women warriors were more common in societies that did not have a written tradition, and were, even worse, considered with disdain by the one overwhelming society (Rome) that not only had a written tradition but had very discriminatory ideas.
In other words, history is a mess of the subjective and objective, from which literature tries to entertain. It is certainly no measure by which a modern person can possible judge for accuracy.
But that’s neither here nor there. Azeroth is Blizzard’s world, and Blizzard gets to decide what is, or is not, part of the various cultures that inhabit that world. If Blizzard is saying there are women warriors, then women warriors there are.
As for superheroes, one could argue that these are our modern myths, and before we had superheroes, we had larger-than-life heroes and before that gods, and I would point out that some of the scariest gods were female, which is why they were referred to by epithets, so as not to draw their attention.
At the end of the day, it shouldn’t matter whether one’s character is male or female - there is no “anthropology police” who are going to step in and chide you for your choice. But I would say that this is not really a hill to die on. I mean, Red Sonja has been around since 1934. Female warriors in Azeroth are just not something to be concerned about.
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Someone is big mad that women can hold swords
Sniff
Smells like incel in here
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