Town Leader Gender Bias?

[Calyx]

Interesting... I think I wish Cantr gender bias extended to our real life Governments and Banks too...

We might not be in as much of a mess... Just saying...

[cutecuddlydirewolf]

I believe it's because males are usually more interested in trading/traveling as opposed to settling down in one place. *shrugs* that might just be me being stereotypical, though.

[Genie]

I know some very realistic male chars which their players are female. In this case we must talk about chars more than players, they have their own minds after all.

[Swingerzetta]

Interestingly, that's the behavior of the males in many pack animal species... Males reach a certain age and wander off to find a new pack, females stay put and keep things running. Maybe this is an expression of our latent instincts being expressed through our characters... Or maybe there's more casual male gamers who come and try this thing out and don't stick with it, and they're playing their own gender, getting bored, and leaving before their turn rolls around for a leadership role.

[Doug R.]

Personally, I think females are more natural leaders, and what we see in Cantr is what society would have looked like if there was no gender bias.

[miirkaelisaar]

In my personal experience, I have three female characters and two are solo leaders of (small sleepy) towns. Of my remaining characters two males are leaders but only jointly as part of a town council (with one exception). I only just realized the striking difference, but if I had to find a reason I would say it's that my female characters are never seeking out or desiring sex or relationships (not to say that they don't just find someone without trying), while basically all my male characters are trying to find their "special someone" or already with them or already lost them, they're distracted and restless and they tend to be easily stressed by the duties of leadership despite sharing it, usually feeling ignored, belittled or taken for granted, and fear doing their jobs because of the reactions visitors or newspawns have when told off for making mistakes or breaking laws, whereas my female leaders are usually more calm and decisive, annoyed by people sleeping to death but not overly depressed despite loss and other tragedies, but are much more... zero tolerance. That is to say, someone breaking the law in one of my male characters' towns get more leniency especially when it's a big town with opinions differing, they feel they'll be ganged up on if they choose to jail an individual for a petty crime, etc., but committing a crime in my female characters' towns would be dealt wifh swiftly and sometimes harshly, they have no fear of being frowned upon or chastized by their citizens, in almost a motherly way, as one would expect their children to support them against a stranger even when they're being harsh. maybe being a solitary leader is what causes this, there aren't as many leaders so one person's decision is all anyone needs while on a council you fear your peer or friend may disagree with you, and we all know how newspawns jump on an argument to put a rift between joint leaders and confuse things. This is a big thing in cantr society that I've noticed. The one exception of mine is a male leader who basically gives everyone a key to storage, won't chase a thief farther than one road and only to ask politely if they'll return the stolen goods, never finds himself overly stressed by leadership because his citizens are few but dependable, basically has a perfect little town. I think it's a good mixture of my other towns, small and quiet, one leader but everyone can do their own thing and have full access once they gain his trust so it's like the council ones. I think it depends on the citizens, and how supportive they are, and what the male or female character's priorities are who are undertaking leadership.

[Miedein]

Of all my characters that made it to town leader status... They are all females. The males tend to be put to The side and given manual labor jobs. Which has inspired me to have one of my female leaders who already has a gender bias begin the implementation of a New law that states all men are beneath women and to be left indoors to do all the cooking and smelting. Only to be brought out for the pleasure of one of the women and then out back inside with the rest after they are done. It would be for breeding only If that was possible but alas no. So I'll have to go for pleasure. Which does not mean sex! My girl dreams of being carried around on a throne by a bunch of cabana boy type guys in loincloths. And making them act as gladiators.

[computaertist]

Of all my characters that made it to town leader status... They are all females. The males tend to be put to The side and given manual labor jobs. Which has inspired me to have one of my female leaders who already has a gender bias begin the implementation of a New law that states all men are beneath women and to be left indoors to do all the cooking and smelting. Only to be brought out for the pleasure of one of the women and then out back inside with the rest after they are done. It would be for breeding only If that was possible but alas no. So I'll have to go for pleasure. Which does not mean sex! My girl dreams of being carried around on a throne by a bunch of cabana boy type guys in loincloths. And making them act as gladiators.

I want a character in that town. Is it a CRB if I ask which island I should be hunting?

(Don't answer that; of course it's a CRB if I do that intentionally.)

[Miedein]

Ya know.. I just made my idea even better... I could build a hall. Design it into an arena...and force the prisoners to be gladiators and fight to the death...why don't We have more justice systems like this? Sparticus anyone? Of course none prisoners could compete as well. For glory and fame and fortune.

[sherman]

Ya know.. I just made my idea even better... I could build a hall. Design it into an arena...and force the prisoners to be gladiators and fight to the death...why don't We have more justice systems like this? Sparticus anyone? Of course none prisoners could compete as well. For glory and fame and fortune.

yeah, that would be awesome.. Just don't let them sleep death!

[Miedein]

Oh of course not. Besides. You could fight for your freedom if you please the crowd well enough :p

[vamking12]

Only since two towns with male leaders, seems to be very little.

[ObsessedWithCats]

My girl dreams of being carried around on a throne by a bunch of cabana boy type guys in loincloths. And making them act as gladiators.

That sounds strangely familiar, I wonder if (slave-)boys in loincloths and gladiator fights are a common desire of female town leaders in Cantr.

I have two town leaders, one male (joint leader) and one female (sole leader) and the only thing I think they really have in common besides the things all or most of my characters have in common is that they're extroverts - my other characters who aren't still in their early twenties couldn't handle the constant communication that would be required of a town leader. I wonder if there's perhaps a tendency for more people to make their female characters people-people?

[Faith]

My girl dreams of being carried around on a throne by a bunch of cabana boy type guys in loincloths. And making them act as gladiators.

That sounds strangely familiar, I wonder if (slave-)boys in loincloths and gladiator fights are a common desire of female town leaders in Cantr.

None of my female leaders desire that!

[Optimus Christ]

Well I have Two characters, Male, that are town leaders by themselves. One is now a small town, but rich in a resource that is needed all around, and the other is about to leave. So I can see where the whole "Male characters want to just travel" Come from.