5.) But after that, the wolf/human side of the two souls have to come together and agree, and be compatible. And if that doesn't happen, they go crazy.... So it's less physical strength, as a combination of physical/mental.
That seems to imply that women lack the mental/spiritual/emotional fortitude to deal with being a werewolf and thus go crazy and have to be killed. Like if ten men and ten women are infected and four of each gender survive, the narrative's rules postulate that the four men are more likely to survive the, uh, meshing period because women generally don't have the capacity. I could be misunderstanding the rules you've posted but, if I'm correct in my understanding, it's offensive.
6.) And a lot of werewolf men are just hesitant to change women anyway because of the lack of being able to have children, and most women don't want that anyway. So it just doesn't happen often.
So, here's the thing. Being a werewolf in this 'verse seems to come with a form of immortality. And who wouldn't want their loved ones to live with them forever and ever?
And, issues of antiquated chivalry aside, it makes no sense for werewolf women to be less fertile than human women. Both you and aratfanatic seem to agree that human women have a lot of miscarriages because they can't carry a changing werewolf baby to term. Human women = human babies carried to term. So why wouldn't werewolf women be able to carry changing werewolf babies to term? It's the same concept, but in reverse. Werewolf women = werewolf babies carried to term. Therefore, regardless of whether or not you're a human woman or a werewolf woman, your chances of carrying a child to term should be roughly equal. (This assumes that neither the humans or the werewolves are mating with their own kind. That would obviously drastically increase the chances of a successful pregnancy.)
So women are theoretically being denied the opportunity to become werewolves and live practically forever because it would inhibit their ability to procreate. (Again with the state of a woman's fertility being all important.) But, logically, becoming a werewolf-woman should improve their chances of carrying a werewolf man's child to term or, if they're married to a human man, at least not reduce them beyond the chances of a human woman carrying a werewolf man's child to term.
So not turning women, letting them wither and die, seems like a cheap source of angst for the eternal youthful (and presumably somewhat handsome) men and an easy way to make Mercy Super Special... on biological grounds, rather than personal ones.
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Date: 2013-02-06 09:40 am (UTC)That seems to imply that women lack the mental/spiritual/emotional fortitude to deal with being a werewolf and thus go crazy and have to be killed. Like if ten men and ten women are infected and four of each gender survive, the narrative's rules postulate that the four men are more likely to survive the, uh, meshing period because women generally don't have the capacity. I could be misunderstanding the rules you've posted but, if I'm correct in my understanding, it's offensive.
6.) And a lot of werewolf men are just hesitant to change women anyway because of the lack of being able to have children, and most women don't want that anyway. So it just doesn't happen often.
So, here's the thing. Being a werewolf in this 'verse seems to come with a form of immortality. And who wouldn't want their loved ones to live with them forever and ever?
And, issues of antiquated chivalry aside, it makes no sense for werewolf women to be less fertile than human women. Both you and aratfanatic seem to agree that human women have a lot of miscarriages because they can't carry a changing werewolf baby to term. Human women = human babies carried to term. So why wouldn't werewolf women be able to carry changing werewolf babies to term? It's the same concept, but in reverse. Werewolf women = werewolf babies carried to term. Therefore, regardless of whether or not you're a human woman or a werewolf woman, your chances of carrying a child to term should be roughly equal. (This assumes that neither the humans or the werewolves are mating with their own kind. That would obviously drastically increase the chances of a successful pregnancy.)
So women are theoretically being denied the opportunity to become werewolves and live practically forever because it would inhibit their ability to procreate. (Again with the state of a woman's fertility being all important.) But, logically, becoming a werewolf-woman should improve their chances of carrying a werewolf man's child to term or, if they're married to a human man, at least not reduce them beyond the chances of a human woman carrying a werewolf man's child to term.
So not turning women, letting them wither and die, seems like a cheap source of angst for the eternal youthful (and presumably somewhat handsome) men and an easy way to make Mercy Super Special... on biological grounds, rather than personal ones.
/alternate Devil's Advocate