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by [[C. J. Williams]]
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Be warned. This article explores waters that have caused
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being a public magazine, the Star Frontiersman cannot be
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It’s no secret that there are differences between the
genders of the Human race both physical and mental.
These differences are spoken about often. Science has
shown that over all, women are a bit smarter than men
in general understanding of the things around them.
Likewise, though there are very strong women out
there, women are generally not as strong, physically,
as men (I speak of how much they are able to lift, pull
or push). Technically, we could give modifiers
(bonuses and penalties) to both genders up
and down the ability list. Women clearly
have higher bodily dexterity, men are
better at hard logic (something many
woman will admit), men have stronger
leadership skills, but women have more
likeable personalities over all. But to list
modifiers for each and every one of these for
both genders would be impractical. So several
questions arise about how we can accomplish
recognizing the differences to the satisfaction of
everyone.

It can be noted that it is not that women’s
getting a negative modifier to strength in
other gaming systems irritates women that
calls to mind the word “sexist”, it's that
there's nothing that gives them a bonus in
another area, or gives men a negative
modifier in an area to balance out the equation,
thus demonstrating extreme sexism. Women
are equal to men, not in every way
(sometimes better, sometimes not as good), but in
that the differences balance out, which women
have fought hard to prove for a very long time.

So, in the interest of fairness, it was considered giving
both genders either 1) bonuses to one ability for Females
and a different one for Males, or 2) penalties in
the converse. That would help, but then this proves a
disadvantage or advantage to Dralasites not having
those gender modifiers, depending on which is used.
Applying a bonus and a penalty to each of both genders
solves this, but is a little too much in the stat
modifier area. So then both a bonus and a penalty
need to be applied to just one gender. On that matter,
women might not like the adjustments going to them,
because the adjustments are always shoved off on the
women. However, when you apply the bonus to men, a
woman of a stronger opinion might think "that should
have been applied to us in the converse so that we go
above normal in a stat, men always get to go above
normal". Additionally, the Human male was used as the
base of all the stats to begin with. In the end, this actually
makes the Human Male look very bland. These
things being so, rest assured these have not just been
shoved off on women, but gives women the opportunity
to rise above the norm with the bonus. That brings
us to the following.

Human females are most known for having "women's
intuition". This meshes with the fact that women always
seem to know things that men are just clueless
about no matter how coldly logical a man is. Thus, the
human females get +5 to Intuition and -5 to Strength.
That covers the most obvious differences between the
sexes and gives women a leg up in intelligence over
men and recognizes their inherent limit in physical
strength in comparison.

Now we have to consider whether
gender affects the alien races. Dralasites
have no clear distinctions between male
and female. In fact, each Dralasite experiences
being male, female, and androgynous during
different stages in their life, so they get no
adjustments. Vrusks, also, could be
unadjusted as they seem to be depicted as
having little difference between Vrusk genders
in the AD rules. Now with Yazirians one would
think that the males should get the adjustments to
offset the Human females getting them, but when
they are given such modifiers, then we really offbalance
the Yazarian male in comparison to the
other races, because we can’t reduce their
deficiency in strength or stamina for their
small stature, so we would end up increasing
one of the other bonuses. Therefore, since
Female Yazirians are larger than male
Yazirians, we can give them a Strength modifier
(which might earn the plaudits and appreciation
of women and become an attractive solution to the
above difference if it seems unpalatable) and a
penalty to Dexterity for their size.

With that being said, below is what is hoped to be a
fair and balanced Racial Gender Ability Modifier Table
below:

{| style="width:300px;"
|- style="color: white; background: navy; font-weight:bold;" align="center"
|align="left"|Species/Gender|| STR|| STA|| INT|| LOG|| DEX|| RS|| PER|| LDR
|- align="center"
|align="left"|Dralasite|| +5|| +5|| +0|| +0|| +0|| +0|| -5|| -5
|- style="background: #eeeeee;" align="center"
|align="left"|Human Female*|| -5|| +0|| +5|| +0|| +0|| +0|| +0|| +0
|- align="center"
|align="left"|Human Male*|| +0|| +0|| +0|| +0|| +0|| +0|| +0|| +0
|- style="background: #eeeeee;" align="center"
|align="left"|Vrusk|| -5|| -5|| +0|| +0|| +5|| +5|| +0|| +0
|- align="center"
|align="left"|Yazirian Female|| -5|| -10|| +5|| +5|| +0|| +5|| +0|| +0
|- style="background: #eeeeee;" align="center"
|align="left"|Yazirian Male|| -10|| -10|| +5|| +5|| +5|| +5|| +0|| +0
|-
|colspan="9"|* Human characters, both male and female, still get +5 to any one ability score. These points apply to only one ability, not to both abilities in a pair.
|}

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It is the hope and intention that this table presents a
proper recognition of sexual differences without insult.
Please address any comments or complaints about this article
to “C. J. Williams” care of Bill_Logan@MyWay.com.
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