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KainenMorden

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It's for them to assimilate, not for Europeans to change for them, accepting them into the country is more than enough but I'll leave it at that.
 

KainenMorden

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That's another issue but the voting trends even in Sweden give me hope.

That is also why I say, southern euros are innately kind people. They have every right to hate Muslims because of historical injustice but the majority tolerate them and when they see third worlders on some make shift raft, they often try to save them.

Imagine what those Muslims and africans would do if we showed up for refuge on their shores.

Anyways I don't want to get anymore political here but it's great to hear from someone from the Fatherland.

One point of interest relevant to this thread, in my family's language, there's no such thing as a motherland.
 
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KainenMorden

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Do you enjoy larping as a woman or something?

I agree that saying an 8 year old boy is stronger than all grown women besides the ones on steroids is untrue but im not sure why so many dexers here are so triggered.

Is it a grognard issue? Or perhaps something deeper?
 

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Men are stronger, make better decisions, better workers, better warriors, better innovators, etc. Women, are too empathic with too much sympathy and ride the god damn romance larp too much. If a dude is a romance fag... well, he's a fag. Fucking tree hugging and save the animals was prolly a bitch's idea. Still, not all 8 yo boys are stronger than every fucking chick on thr planet or even on average. And that dude defending it is a faggot with his chick name and avatar.

I'll be rather frank... there are NO WOMEN POSTERS ON THE CODEX. They're all larping faggots.
 

KainenMorden

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Ok, I'm relieved, seems just to be a grognard thing. Yes, I already know there are no real women on this forum.

Yeah I'm in full agreement. I've also never engaged in an RPG romance and have 0 desire to. I don't think I've even played many games with such options, I think just the BG series.

Dnd was originally an evolution of wargaming that was about getting a band of mercenaries together to kill monsters and loot their dungeons and to raid enemy settlements and hear the lamentations of/loot their women.

Why would I bring a woman on such an adventure? From an RP perspective, there's plenty of women/prostitutes out there to have your way with and you don't have to worry about STDs, I always play characters that can cure or are immune to disease.
 

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Yeah, no. Both women and men of the middle ages were not bulkier. Nutrition played a huge role at preventing bulk, meat wasn't as readily available.
Not only that, but today we know for a fact that poor nutrition during development years (childhood + adolescence) does cause both significant physical and mental impairment
And we do know for a fact (both from historical sources and examining of mortal remains), that most people from the medieval period did suffer from malnutrition
So, in general europeans back then were both in mind and body less healthy and capable than your average european of today or even from the industrial revolution

Honestly now that I think about it
I remember from 10 years ago, reading some early renaissance knight's martial arts manual
If I remember correctly, there was a passage where he asked his readers not teach his art to peasants, showing nothing but contempt and disgust at them
At the time I thought this was simply aristocratic snobbery
But taking in consideration the facts above, I think it lends a more clear picture of this situation
I mean, imagine you're a well off, educated knight - you're phisically fit, you're literate, you're a reasonably smart individual and possibly even handsome
In comparasion to you, the peasents that work your land are - feeble, slow-minded, short-sighted, iliterate, uncivilized and most likely have the beauty of a toad
In short, they might as well be from another species of human
So, of course it would be natural for a healthy knight to find such creatures repulsive
 
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I mean, imagine you're a well off, educated knight - you're phisically fit, you're literate, you're a reasonably smart individual and possibly even handsome
In comparasion to you, the peasent that work your land are - feeble, slow-minded, short-sighted, iliterate, uncivilized and most likely have the beauty of a toad
In short, they might as well be from another species of human
Beautiful nobles and ugly peasants are likely a myth. I mean, just look at these noble beauties:

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If anything, you could chalk up the disdain for peasants to aristocratic snobbery and leave it at that, by the virtue of Ockham's Razor.
 

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If you want to understand the disdain nobility had for peasants, try to leave your middle class bubble and mingle with the lower classes a bit. Work a week at an assembly line or move shit in a warehouse. Then you'll see just how shit, dumb, and petty people can be, and realize that the nobles of old were 100% right if this was what they had to deal with
 

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If you want to understand the disdain nobility had for peasants, try to leave your middle class bubble and mingle with the lower classes a bit. Work a week at an assembly line or move shit in a warehouse. Then you'll see just how shit, dumb, and petty people can be, and realize that the nobles of old were 100% right if this was what they had to deal with
"Let them eat cake",right?
 

KainenMorden

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I think a large part of it is not wanting peasants to be trained to fight/educated in order to maintain control of them more easily.
 

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Our sexual dimorphism is the result over millions of years of evolution on earth. For my own fantasy setting where monsters and other intelligent humanoids like elves exist. Women had to be significantly stronger in order to survive. So female warriors can exist in such a setting in my opinion.
 

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