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Ilia and Miscellany
May. 25th, 2011 09:07 pmI don't believe that Ilia is a matriarchal society. Yes, I realize that Farina's supports with Karla indicate that women put food on the table, and I wouldn't at all be surprised to hear that female children are welcomed eagerly and mothers held in high esteem. But there's one rather glaring detail in the way if someone wants to paint Ilia as a truly "women first" society.
After FE6, Ilia becomes a monarchy. Ruled by a king. And not some guileless youth-- someone's son, or brother, or some special orphan-- who might conceivably be the puppet of wisewomen. Zealot is a strongman, an active and experienced general, the leader of that "pretty terrible" brigade of male mercenary knights so mocked by Farina. His wife Yuno, meanwhile, is portrayed as courageous but retiring, given the title "Grand Flightleader" only in death.
In context, I do not find Farina's information reliable. Granted, the mercenary knights folded like wet paper against Bern without Zealot on the scene, but the peg knights didn't do any better.
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My radio show is a repeat tonight... but it still says LIVE! on the calendar. I am confused. I feel like I'm missing something.
ETA: Nope. Definitely a repeat.
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Where's my jar of rambutan honey? That wasn't cheap. :(
Speaking of the rambutan, nothing like coming up to the grocery counter waving a bag filled with what looks for all the world like severed testicles. The shop boy was deeply perplexed until I explained that they were kind of like lychees.
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Just when you think you've overstated the horrors of slash cliches in FE-dom, someone comes along and posts something really flabbergastingly awful. Then again, we were discussing the likelihood of Rolf going sociopathic...
After FE6, Ilia becomes a monarchy. Ruled by a king. And not some guileless youth-- someone's son, or brother, or some special orphan-- who might conceivably be the puppet of wisewomen. Zealot is a strongman, an active and experienced general, the leader of that "pretty terrible" brigade of male mercenary knights so mocked by Farina. His wife Yuno, meanwhile, is portrayed as courageous but retiring, given the title "Grand Flightleader" only in death.
In context, I do not find Farina's information reliable. Granted, the mercenary knights folded like wet paper against Bern without Zealot on the scene, but the peg knights didn't do any better.
-x-
My radio show is a repeat tonight... but it still says LIVE! on the calendar. I am confused. I feel like I'm missing something.
ETA: Nope. Definitely a repeat.
-x-
Where's my jar of rambutan honey? That wasn't cheap. :(
Speaking of the rambutan, nothing like coming up to the grocery counter waving a bag filled with what looks for all the world like severed testicles. The shop boy was deeply perplexed until I explained that they were kind of like lychees.
-x-
Just when you think you've overstated the horrors of slash cliches in FE-dom, someone comes along and posts something really flabbergastingly awful. Then again, we were discussing the likelihood of Rolf going sociopathic...
