[quote=Nevis]
There's a logical fallacy with there being racism and not sexism. Both are derived from the same basic problem-assuming people are or aren't or should or shouldn't be a certain way based on a boxing people into different groups based on a single shared quality. Racism assumes that because someone is of a certain ethnic origin, from that race will fit into a stereotype. Sexism assumes that everyone of a certain gender has the same qualities based on a stereotype. They spring from the same assumption that stereotyping is an accurate and reasonable way of viewing and treating people and you literally cannot have and be one without also having and being the other.
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Lets not fall into an argument gentlemen. 

Perhaps I wasn't specific enough. When I said sexism wasn't prevalent, I didn't mean it was non existent. Something I did fail to clarify however is that I meant derogatory sexism, in the fashion that we are familiar with it in our world, is not prevalent in Veruulis. Sexism is always going to exist, it's something that we have gotten quite used to. To say it is non existent would be to say that everybody gets along all the time, which of course is not true. In a sense, sexism is prominent in an uplifting way as far as the female side of it goes. Females are generally seen as being stronger because of their slightly increase chances to produce mages, and also for their ability to birth children. Their strength is noted.

under that situation, however, the males would then be the bigger target for sexism. Because they are not able to birth children, and are slightly [i]less[/i] inclined to have magical ability, females could hold that over them, and they could be said to be the weaker sex, at least magically. While as males generally have better physical strength, that could be held over females. 

I don't have any type of degree in communications or social science, so I can't give you some sort of break down on sexism and the like, but in a world where females have an advantage that males do not, something that brings their power level to an equal standard to men, would it not make sense if sexism was [i]less[/i] prevalent than in our world? And to verify, I am not saying it doesn't exist at all, just that there is less of it.

But I'm not writing a series of long novels here guys and gals. These miniscule ideals will hardly be touched upon unless someone has the intention of doing exactly that (looking at you, skyswimsky). While I'd have no issue opening up this topic if it comes up in the IC, this is not what the RP is focused on. I have many sets of plans for where this is going, and I won't have them totally thrown out of whack because somebody wants to go on a imaginary feminist crusade or something. If that's your deal, go do it for real. We're here to create a story together, not to dig into the mostly irrelevant social intricacies of an imaginary world. Things like sexism and racism (especially in a sparsely populated place like Ialdia) will come on a case by case basis. This is a new frontier, and how social behaviors will develop here is entirely up to the people that inhabit it.