True, but that's a far fetch from genetic mutation which kills 8 out of 10 and leave halve of the survivors with permanent defects... What they tried was "mild doping".

You didn't. But you literally said that for author being consistent about the world is less important than not joking about sex change. Well, the Baldur's Gate is prime example how the former approach makes ineresting characters and funny stories and latter makes crappy characters and ruins "suspension of disbelief"/

I haven't read the books or played the games; that's true. However. there is no reason that a fantasy world has to work any particular way.

To me, the way sex changes are handled in BG1 and BG2 is enough to ruin suspension of disbelief, and it does not make interesting characters. In fact, 2 of the 3 ways that sex changes can occur in the BG series aren't plot related and could be taken out without changing the plot. (For the method introduced with the ToB expansion, I would just replace that effect with something like a random alignment change.)

Anyway, I was actually thinking of the book Dealing with Dragons (by Patricia Wrede) as an example of a book that subverts gender roles in a manner that's quite enjoyable. The book starts with a princess running away and getting kidnapped by a dragon on purpose, and not wanting to be rescued by a prince. It's a fun read, and I recommend it, along with the other "with Dragons" books that she wrote.

Seriously?! toxicTom like literally told you the reasons, why that particular fantasy world works that particular way.
How exactly that ruins sod? If there are sex-changing spells and artifacts in the world, than people's attitude to the change of sex would be exactly like in BG1&2. Not like "parents thought I was a boy, but I refused to accept that" whining in Dragonspear. If you want to change your sex in D&D world - you just go, find magic and that's all. In fact that kind of quest would make an interesting backstory for a character, but instead players got some person babbling how she made her name out of sounds or whatever.

And? You haven't told me anything that would capture my interest. Why a princess thinks that living with dragon is better than with prince?

Bingo, you got it.

I have read the book Contact, and seen the movies. It's my favorite bit of sci-fi.

AMAZING BOOK.
The movie was good but I didn't like some of the changes. I realize they had to alter somethings because the book was over 1000 pages, but all together brilliant stuff from a brilliant mind who is and will be missed.

And to the point dt was trying to make, it's a very down to earth realistic scifi story. While I don't see us getting blue prints from outer space any time soon, it does such a great job of taking this extraordinary story and making it "real". Star Trek always dealt with real people and real emotions and real dilemmas, but at the end of the day they were still on a space ship going warp speed which accentuated the Fantasy over the Science in SciFi. Contact very much leans to the Science aspect of it, allowing for some Fantasy, but almost as just a garnish, not a main aspect or story point.

That`s your opinion, but what I`ve said is fact. Fact doesn`t care about your opinion.

The only way a woman might beat a man is if she`s some kind of sports fanatic and the man sat on a coach all day, in other words he never exercises. Then she may out-run a man, she may even out strong arm a man. But there is a raft of evidence of even sports women unable to beat teenager sports boys in competition. There`s even footage of a muscle woman who was beaten by men who never took any steroids crap.

And that brings me to another point, the strongest, most athletic man will never be beaten by the strongest, most athletic woman, just as all average men, will beat all average women in any physical feat.

Feminism, and society`s attempts to please women, try to hide the truth. Stop believing lies. Look around you in the real world and observe with your eyes.

Fact, reality, truth. Deal with it.

FTFY :D

Sorry to be so blunt, but you're full of shit. It's you who should take a look at the real world and maybe learn at least the basics of statistics. Maybe start with bell curve and Gaussian distribution.

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There's women who have squated weights of 700lbs and women who have run 10.5 seconds for the 100m. Less than 0.1% of men will ever hit either of those marks.

The best men will beat the best women physically but the best women are still levels above the average man.

When it comes to fighting that is generally less so because of women's lesser bone density.

0.1%? You are lying. I could ask you to post evidence, but there isn`t any. However there`s plenty of evidence of men being the strongest and fastest over women. And MOST men are stronger and faster than women. Exceptions are only as I explained above which you choose to ignore.

All these have been beaten by men. NO woman has ever matched the higheststrength/running feats of men.
This makes absolutely no sense and you are now just showing you`re a feminist who won`t accept reality.
It is about strength, density, mass, mentality and thousands of years of genetics that enables men to be far superior in warfare than women. The evidence is before your eyes. Your cognitive dissonance is amazing.

Yes, but women have ways of getting around this.
Worst ass whooping I ever got was from a girl. There were big bad male bullies at my grade school but when they fought they did it to look good in front of their friends which meant more posing that anything else. When a woman fights she does it to win and doesn't care what she looks like. She will do anything and everything to kick your ass however unorthodox.

Just because you`re a weak ass guy who was too afraid to hit a girl doesn`t make women ass kickers.

I was bullied at school by a girl and the only reason she won was because I thought `you`re not supposed to hit a girl`. So I wouldn`t fight back.

I talked to my father about it and he said, "Don`t believe the crap they teach you; it makes you think you`re weak when you`re not. You are far stronger than her. If she starts again, slap her good on the face!"

Next day she started bullying me again. I slapped her hard on the face- She burst into tears and never again bullied me. She was bigger than me too.

I give my father`s advice to you. Stop being a weak pussy. You as a male are far stronger, but you`ve let yourself become mentally weak.