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.
Yeah, I reacted to that too. How does it make it any better than if it was all about physical strength? At least the fact that women are, on average, physically weaker than men is a simple fact - the idea that they would be mentally weaker sounds more like all-out prejudice.
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.)
That too. I can imagine some people (not just women) willingly giving up personal immortality in return for being able to physically reproduce, but not damn many of them. We might talk ponderously about being only a link in the chain of generations and how the Miracle of Birth makes mortality all worth it, but that's because we don't really have a choice - if someone was actually handing out immortality at the price of fertility, I think most people would be all "screw having babies, I DON'T WANNA DIE!!!" :P
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Date: 2013-02-06 12:30 pm (UTC)Yeah, I reacted to that too. How does it make it any better than if it was all about physical strength? At least the fact that women are, on average, physically weaker than men is a simple fact - the idea that they would be mentally weaker sounds more like all-out prejudice.
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.)
That too. I can imagine some people (not just women) willingly giving up personal immortality in return for being able to physically reproduce, but not damn many of them. We might talk ponderously about being only a link in the chain of generations and how the Miracle of Birth makes mortality all worth it, but that's because we don't really have a choice - if someone was actually handing out immortality at the price of fertility, I think most people would be all "screw having babies, I DON'T WANNA DIE!!!" :P