Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.231.46.205-20151112031449/@comment-98.231.46.205-20151113101843

Skyzy wrote: I'm not sure if by Outlanders, you mean the Grounders?

So, what you're saying is that a tribal society (or any society) would not have female leaders because they're physically weaker than men? You wanna know how easy it is to turn a patriarchal society into a matriarchal one? Kill off most of the men in an apocalypse leaving only the mothers and children. Hopefully, the mothers won't continue raising misogynists and you end up with a society where genders are treated equally.

As for age, when you're at war as often as the Grounders and are constantly having your people captured by the Reapers, the mortality rate is pretty high and life expectancy is pretty low leaving young leaders.

Well, since the Grounders have plenty of men of prime fighting age, your point is moot. And this has nothing to do with Misandrist Feminist BS. A backwards society that only respects strength is going to GUESS WHAT, have leaders who are strong. The whole reincarnation BS is just that. They needed an excuse to have all of the women be leaders, and likely somebody brought up that it didn't make sense for the Grounders to have female leaders because of the strength issue. So somebody said, "well let's find an excuse to have females as leaders." It was a weak excuse that they came up with. Reincarnation? Really? That's the best they could come up with? Reincarnation wouldn't be a reason for men who only respect strength to follow a woman. She would have to have something that gives her strenght. This is why I like the Dragon Queen in Game of Thrones. She's very realistic. And as I said, she is my favorite leader in Game of Thrones, and not just because she is beautiful. She's just the one I root for the most because of her desire to be on the right side of every issue.