To the Aeslin mice, the women of the Price family are priestesses, and the men? The men are Gods.
This has always bugged the CRAP out of me. Why not priests and priestesses, or Gods and Goddesses? Why priestesses and Gods? I don't know if the Aeslin mice are sexist, but they certainly seem sexist, with this. Why do they assign the women a lesser designation? I would even be okay with a mix of priests and priestesses, Gods and Goddesses -- the nicer, more approachable humans are clergy, and the more distant humans who don't talk to the Aeslin directly are Gods and Goddesses. Why does it HAVE to devolve along gender lines?
Also, how would the Aeslin classify someone who is genderqueer?
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Date: 2012-02-20 09:18 pm (UTC)This has always bugged the CRAP out of me. Why not priests and priestesses, or Gods and Goddesses? Why priestesses and Gods? I don't know if the Aeslin mice are sexist, but they certainly seem sexist, with this. Why do they assign the women a lesser designation? I would even be okay with a mix of priests and priestesses, Gods and Goddesses -- the nicer, more approachable humans are clergy, and the more distant humans who don't talk to the Aeslin directly are Gods and Goddesses. Why does it HAVE to devolve along gender lines?
Also, how would the Aeslin classify someone who is genderqueer?