archer9234 said:
HoloDust said:
SuperNova said:
See my post further above. What you say might hold some merit, or logic to it, but pre-history didn't really follow it.
There's evidence of pre-historic women hunting along with the males. I don't see why post-historic ones wouldn't.
Although your weapon argument would be quite good if the weapons were the deciding factor in the hunt. At least most pre-historc tribes likely simply outrun their prey in long distance. As in, they chased them at a steady pace until the weakest of the herd collapsed and then killed them when they were already down. (Or they herded them into a ravine native american style) This is what humans are evolved to do, were likely the best long distance runners in the animal kingdom.
As for the post historic ones, they seem to have some technology to their weapons so they might be evolved enough that drawing strengh for example is not as vital as general flexibility, or fast reflexes.
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Yeah, I know of those theories, to various degrees they are true, though, generally speaking, in hunter-gatherer societies, men were mostly hunters and women were mostly gatherers, but considering that they were nomadic, hunt was often a whole tribe activity.
Anyway, speaking strictly of Horizon, they're not exactly hunting helpless gazelles, that world seems quite dangerous and their prey has very aggresive and active dinobot guards - as I said, I doubt any sane leader in such a harsh world would risk women for such tasks, just for the sake of equality, but, I'm eager to see what story for that devs have come up with, that is, if any.
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The mentality that men are expendable continues.
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I'd say just another type of resource for rulers - males die in wars, females are treated as breeding vessels. It might not be so cold and harsh on smaller scale, but it's what it boils down to.
I don't like it as much as any other sucker in last several tens of thousand of years who thought 'why I have to die in the war just cause I'm male', but that's how it was and honestly I don't see it changing, specially in post-apocalyptic world.
