Why are there no female primarchs?

[Andurin Marvak]

I'm with Garrett. Ayn Rand what now?

As for the female comissars...well, I intend to use the models, actually, because I think they are nice-looking. Will I use a combination of paint and liquid/solid greenstuff to make them decent? Yes, I will. Starting with filling the lace-up boots and putting pilot-esque scarves over their cleavage. I want the faces and the attitude, not the sex appeal. Sheesh, what am I, Borat?

 

Also, the tongue out thing looks more like concentration to me. Or just poorly executed sexy.

[Kol Saresk]

I don't, Lotarra kind of struck me as the woman of my dreams.

[Knight of the Raven]

 

A fun exercise to work out how sexist something is is to go through and genderflip all the characters.

I'm not sure it points out sexism as much as it points out double standards.

 

I agree though. Imagine Johnny Bravo, who gets beaten, burnt, frozen or whatever for hitting on women too hard. Haha, funny right? Genderflip the characters one second and tell me how funny you find it. Or the popular plot of a woman hunting down an unwilling man to have sex with him (change to plural if necessary). Hilarious, you say? We'll see how long your opinion lasts when genders are reversed.

 

Maybe I have double standards myself, but Raging Heroes isn't all fanservice. Just look at their Dame Malys stand-in;

 

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Somehow she looks less slutty than the 'oh, mein SS captor, you look so sexy in that leather!' commissars. And she's a dark eldar.

[Unintentional Batman]

I love huge tits and pistol. :)

 

The recent portrayal of the amazonian comicbook heroine Glory is something that comes to mind when thinking of a female primarch done in un-cheesecake way: https://dcomixologyssl.sslcs.cdngc.net/i/7409/22325/7c512e2b1638650ed30a408e246e0640.jpg?h=5fbdb559b668529e5ea244c082d5324f

 

Then again, Fulgrim IS oh so darn pretty... So maybe a girlish girl of a primarchess wouldn't be that far out an idea afterall...

[Marshal Rohr]

Ayn Rand's female characters have a tendency to be unwilling/awkwardly ok with male dominant sexual partners and enjoying it anyway. Rand was a weird lady and her characters are even weirder. GRR Martins characters are constantly written about as sexually submissive even if they stab people in the face. Excluding Arya, because she is a little girl.

 

Wade, Rand was a writer even if she called herself a philosopher, and honestly she was bad at both. Her little nuggets of good are covered in heaps of who cares and what the...

 

A little bit like Graham McNeill. A few cool scenes of Perturabo followed by six pages of the EC attending ProjecT X on the Andronicus.

[Unintentional Batman]

Speaking of Ayn Rand and writers of gaming franchise fiction in the same sentence...

 

Is completely, and utterly acceptable course of action. Her literary merit is on the same level as gaming fiction - and "Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!" is at least as viable a philosophy in real life as Objectivism. There are only two good things ever born from Rand's ramblings - 2112 and Ditko's Question.

 

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

[Marshal Rohr]

Her stuff about the gold standard was pretty spot on, but her implementation of her normative thought would've made Hitler tingle in the nethers.

[Office temp]

 

depthcharge12, on 14 Aug 2013 - 19:03, said:

 

Res Ipsa Loquitur, on 14 Aug 2013 - 18:45, said:

Why on Earth would muscle-mass matter in a future where everyone carries a gun? Why on Earth would muscle-mass matter in a future where everyone carries a gun and genetically-modified humans are a thing?

You can make the argument that males are better suited to hand-to-hand combat because we're generally bigger and stronger than females, but not that being stronger makes them better in combat in general. After all, there's more to even hand-to-hand combat than brute strength and being male gives no inherent advantage in any of it.

It doesn't matter how much you can bench-press if I'm thirty feet away and have, say, a bolter in my hands.

Uh dude you almost answered your own question.

Do you have the strength to hold a bolter? Fluff indicates that humans who hold BOLT PISTOLS need two hands to hold it up and brace it or it would break their wrist.

Plus the whole carrying your gear thing mentioned by our resident military members.

Oh and i would definitely take the muscle mass and strength to wear and use effectively power armor to run you over while you point your flashlight lasgun at me to little avail.

Just saying, not every gun in 40K is a bolt pistol. The right lasgun on full charge can blow out the helmet on an Iron Warrior. And his head away with it. Heck, there was one Space Marine who got killed by a blow pipe! Well, it was closer to thirty but the point still stands. A .22 is still as dangerous as a .50 cal. Don't get me wrong, I still like to be able to shoot them with something I know will knock them off their feet, but that's not the point.

Wade, I get that sarcasm is fun and all, but do not blow my quotes out of proportion. If history says there is only a handful of women in combat, but archaeology is digging up bones of warrior that are at least two thousand years old and they are digging up a lot more than a handful, then I am right to infer that history is biased. Especially since that is a claim easily proved.

EDIT: Depthcharge, I would love to meet the SPARTAN II Kelly. Just saying.

I would have to disagree that ~50-70 ftlbs of muzzle energy is as dangerous as ~7000-10000 ftlbs of muzzle energy

[Office temp]

 

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Now thats an Imperium I can believe in.

 

 

I would not mind taking orders from them. I would almost do heretical things just to get their attention :wub:

Getting the definite feeling that was sculpted by a guy. I imagine the first time that gal gets some red hot shell splitters lodged in her breast, after leaving the medicae she's going right to the armory and grabbing a flack jacket.