[mcman]

I agree a lot with Cerb's post pretty much wholeheartedly.

I was discussing marriage traditions with a few people, and really it comes down to, in my opinion, is this: It depends on the character's culture. That more or less means marriage traditions and ceremony can vary from place to place, so players may have to get a little creative with thinking up what kind of traditions your own character would have, and maybe even doing a bit of research.

As for homosexuality, that depends on something. Is Mesalia more of a Medieval RP server or a Modern era RP server? Homosexuality from what I understand has only recently been accepted in modern-day society. Again, from what I understand and have been told, Mesalia is a Medieval RP server, so homosexuality would more than likely be looked down upon as something filthy and unnatural considering, well, to put it bluntly, the parts don't fit.

And as for male superiority, this depends more on the culture I'd say. Again, female equality is a more modern idea, but as we can see from the past, females in some cultures were seen to hold even higher social statuses than men, although not often. However, some cultures even accepted all females to be of higher social status than men, not individual ones (The Amazons are a good example of this). So really, it comes down to the culture I believe.

I think you're incorrect to equate "medieval" with "homophobic". For one, medieval is a Eurocentric term, but even if it just so happened to play out that medieval society on Earth was homophobic, does that mean medieval society and homophobia are intrinsically linked? I don't think so; I think that things like feudalism, agrarianism, and religion (which just so happened to be homophobic but could very well not have been) are what actually define medieval society. And if you think about it, we hardly even model feudalism in our RP; the only thing that's really medieval about our server is the level of technology, which really doesn't have much impact on cultural attitudes toward homosexuality.

Also, aren't the Amazons a mythological female-led society who were often contrasted as barbarians in comparison to the civilized (and incidentally patriarchal) Greeks themselves? What I've learned in my mythology class is that if anything the Amazons were used by the Greeks as a fictional device to justify their own traditional gender roles...