08-02-2017, 02:02 PM | #1 |
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City Stats: "Most Cities Are Androgynous"
What kind of city wouldn't be?
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08-02-2017, 02:04 PM | #2 |
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Re: City Stats: "Most Cities Are Androgynous"
One with either an awful lot of suggestive towers or domes with cupolas and pools with canoes.
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08-02-2017, 02:49 PM | #3 |
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08-02-2017, 04:04 PM | #5 |
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Re: City Stats: "Most Cities Are Androgynous"
A city that is noted for sending out small numbers of people to other cities, and in those other cities, join up with a larger number of people from those cities, and all set out to colonize a new location.
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08-02-2017, 05:37 PM | #6 | |
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08-02-2017, 05:45 PM | #7 |
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Re: City Stats: "Most Cities Are Androgynous"
There are at least two cities nicknamed "Queen City" (Cincinnati, OH, and Charlotte, NC) and one that is actually named Queen City (in TX). There's three with gender. Similarly, there's a King City in California.
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08-02-2017, 05:46 PM | #8 |
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Re: City Stats: "Most Cities Are Androgynous"
Mechanically speaking, a meaningfully non-Androgynous city would be one with an appearance of Beautiful or better which is significantly more visually appealing to people attracted to a particular sex.
What actual feature could produce this effect aside from maybe heavy use of attractive and gender-imbalanced statuary, I dunno... Male, female, or other reproductive model is very much separate from androgynous or gendered appearance.
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I think some of it has more to do with our primate ancestry equating raw height with power and safety, but the anatomical similarity doesn't hurt for a predominantly patriarchal species.
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08-02-2017, 05:46 PM | #10 |
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Re: City Stats: "Most Cities Are Androgynous"
I really cannot tell you why I wrote "most." It could just as well have been omitted, with GMs left to overrule it if they really thought they had a case for a city being gendered. About the only thing I can imagine is that in a fantasy world a city might have a human enough personality to be gendered, like Roma Dea or Carl Sandburg's Chicago, "hog-butcher to the world."
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