Leovarian L Lavitz
Tritan-Industries
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2012.07.18 03:10:00 -
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You do realize that the only reason gender androgynous clones will exist on the battlefield is because it's basically a fashion statement. The PR Reason is to help female gamers immerse themselves into the game. You can be whatever you want, look however you want via custom clones. A good example is the Broker. http://community.eveonline.com/background/potw/default.asp?cid=jun02
In the real world, the female body and mind has different strengths than the male. The female body biggest specialization is energy conservation, while the male's body's biggest specialization is energy acquisition.
This means greater stamina for women, but greater base strength for men. Typically a strong woman is still weaker than a weak man sans augmentations. A woman can typically outlast a man in trials of stamina, such as long distance running (two hours or more) or swimming, or survival situations where resources are scarce.
http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/RBC/gender.shtml
This means that men tend to be stronger and faster than women, thus consuming energy at a greater rate, and tend to have smaller stores of the energy. Women, specializing in energy storage have more stores on their bodies than men which are used for survival, and in their other specialization.
Specifically, omega 3 fatty acids are stored in a different manner to omega 6s. Omega 6 fatty acids tend to be stored as a kind of checking account around the stomach, arms and face. These deposits are added to and removed from during whatever activities the women does.
Omega 3s are stored more like certificates of deposit in the thighs and buttocks region and are rarely removed for anything, ("Damn, I can't get rid of this ass/thighs no matter how much I work out!"). Omega 3s have a very important role to play; brain development. During infant brain development, large amounts of omega 3s are consumed, significantly more than is possible for the mother to eat during the pregnancy, thus the omega 3s which the woman has been saving in her thighs and hips are brought in to make the difference.
Generally, most of the stores are used on the first child if they are available. This is why much of the time the first born is much more gifted than her siblings, she had much more brain building omega 3s during her growth than them.
Men are genetically wired to look for a certain shape and size in women's waist to hip ration of about 70% waist to hip size. By looking they can also tell if the woman has had children before, and how fertile and survivable the child may be, and most importantly, how big of a brain the child may have.
EDIT: The latest issue of Psychology Today has a great article from around sixty years worth of research on the matter. |