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yeah she seemed to have too much "screen time" and be developed a bit too well for a throwaway charter

also just asking here im assuming edgedancer is about Lift ?

right on the money WoR page 104 "Lift edged sideways until she could look around the curve of the wall to spot the guard patrol: men in patterned vests and caps with long halberds"

that is simply untrue halberds indeed require slightly more training but they are much more effective and versatile due to them essentially being an axe + a spear optionally + a warhammer there is a reason spears went out of fashion in the late middle ages which is where alethkar is when it comes to war technology

why do darkeyed soldiers use spears instead of halberds ?

haven't read OB yet so dont really know what that means but i get your point

Hoid brought it up in one of shallan's flashbacks and he raised a good point how do they know what a hound is ? it cant be some extinct specie since dawntounge didn't survive the desolation's meaning the word was made for alethi

the only thing i understood from this is listeners and all i know about them is they are the ancient parashandi or something like that like i said im only about a tenth of the way through WoR but the gist is something something shard messing with genetics correct ? like what the lord ruler did with the skaa and the nobles

then why didn't rysn comment about it ? the eyebrows were described to be long enough to stretch over your ears it would take hundreds of thousands of years at the very least to develop something like this

this is probably one of the pettiest questions ever asked on this forum but what is the evolutionary advantage of Thaylen eyebrows ? if you want to build a grounded world you must have explanations ready for nitpickers like me ps im only on page 200 of words of radiance please do not spoil anything later then that if the question is answered later please inform me

well in rock's case (not sure if i should capitalize rock) he told us his name to as one of the ways to establish his very different culture (and for a joke) in Szeth's case there is no real grammatical difference and it dosn't sound any odder then Shallan or Kaladin i doubt that was Brandon's intention with the name seeing how later on he brought up the cultural difference by having people refer to him as Szeth son son Vollano its obliviously Brandon's choice i just find it weird

yeah that was my second guess why did he even put a s ?

I pronounce it like Sazed from mistborn just with a th at the end is that correct ?

There is research on both sides but i agree its probably best to drop the subject to be honest i was terrified of posting this question because i really don't know the political climate of this place however if Brandon is a believer of tabula rasa then the thread is finished the gender roles make sense

All of the links i posted are from reputable sources, the first being a reputable if rather laymen oriented psychology magazine and the second being from a reputable science magazine, as to the third one not working perhaps your country is blocking it ? try TOR, you might be right about about the breasts thing but the links you provided just pointed to a book reaffirming what i said ( i never claimed these differences to be anything more then dispositions ) and a article claiming some vague study and not providing a link ( i am sorry for not providing the link to the study about babies i will provide it bellow ) biological psychology agrees with me man and woman are naturally more disposed to certain fields agian i whould implore you to look up Jordan Peterson he is a world renowned clinical psychologist and he has a few very informative videos on the subject https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160715114739.htm

well roshar dosn't actually exist so obviously that might not apply there where outside of a tribal society are female breasts considered normal to show ?

my problem lies exactly in what you described mainly that Brandon has taken the "egalitarian" route embracing tabula rasa when in realty there are well proven biological differences between the minds of man and women this does not make one sex superior to other some thing i want to stress very hard however ignoring the biological differences makes it hard for me to suspend my disbelief man tend to be more object oriented while women tend to be more people oriented this was studied even in couple week old babies where males preferred cars and building blocks while woman preferred dolls which can bee seen in the adult world too with males preferring fields like mathematics physics or engineering while woman prefer hr roles psychology and teaching now it should be noted that culture most likely has influence in this regard however even in university's with massive programs to push woman into scientific fields the results were mixed and a lot of woman dropped out this is of course all general statistical data however i simply find it unlikely that there would not be a significant percent of lighteyed man who would be interested in neutral sciences and engineering this could of course simply be solved by saying that rosharian males and females have identical brain structure I should again make absolutely clear that those differences do not make one sex superior some sources for my claims https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/21st-century-aging/201209/differences-between-men-and-women https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hope-relationships/201402/brain-differences-between-genders https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-mens-brains-are-wired-differently-than-women/ also the work of jordan peterson although i will admit his papers are beyond my layman's understanding of the subject

@Calderis well the first one really just has to do with sexual attraction man gawk over breasts but woman don't care for male nipples the second one is stupid i agree my point was it seems odd to me that no smart charismatic man was born in a position of power from which he could convince other people to abandon the tradition

@Calderis i don't really think you got my point your analysis appears correct the problem is the system is built upon reverence of the tradition and not much else there is no reason a powerful man could not learn to read and write and convince people to do away with the old ways entirely at least for man if not for both genders and with how long this system exits you would think that a smart man would decide to do this for any number of reason

this isn't a recent thing the rules existed since the fall of the original knights radiant surely in all of that time there must have been a smart man in a position of power

but man run the political world

i get what he was trying to do but the thing is the rules dont seem to have any justification to them in the real world woman were considered intellectually inferior to man until probably the 40's that is clearly not the case in roshar and so that raises the question are men seen as intellectually inferior ? if so why do do men seem to be the leading force in politics ? why are the kings man ? and the traders ? what actual justification does the culture provide to this massive impracticality and inconsistency ? with the lawmakers being man did no one ever think "wait why cant we do this ? "

wait what ? that doesn't make sense why do things like writing become a feminine art then ? yes it can be done with one hand and so does fighting with a arming sword or a dagger there must have been smaller shardblades and why did reading become a feminine art ? a handles invalid could read and why do the men do not see the stupidity of being able to read glyphs but not text shouldnt this system mean man can do anything a women can do but not vice versa and what about darkeyed women who only wear gloves ? as was brought up in this thread i can see why masculine arts are fine for female ardent's but why are feminine arts okay for male ardents ? and why is their a separation of food ? that's just impractical

Isn't surgery very much a extension of biology a feminine art ? at first i thought this only applied to battlefield medics and surgeons but no one found it odd for Taravangian to be intrested in medicine apothecary's seem male and from how Lirin described the Kharbranthian council of surgeons they also sounded male ps i only read the way of kings so far if this is answered later please ignore

i thought it only detailed what kleiser did for the 3 years between his escape from the pits and the start of the story