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As far as I can tell, the Tau secondary sexual characteristics don't include breasts. As noted by one of the more recent Cain novels (which probably also pissed off some Tyranid fanboys, but that's ymmv) only Tau can really tell them apart, and they're also just about the only ones who care anyway.


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Black Knight wrote:
This is absolutely ridiculous. Men tend to be stronger than women.

This wasn't under dispute. What was under dispute was the idea pushed forwards by certain ignorants that the difference was entirely biological, when, in fact, barring the furthest upper limits of strength, it's really a large part cultural.

I'm not joking when I say women are raised to live in a sedentary lifestyle, even now in modern times.

Could be, though, from what I gather from the Cain novels, every woman in the Imperium is in double-D territory, so a more modestly-endowed female might be mistaken for a man, especially if they aren't human to begin with, because Imperials are, by and large, dim.

(This is, of course, a joke)

That, or Cain only ever notices women with such endowments. He IS a ripoff of Flashman.

 Melissia wrote:

Black Knight wrote:
This is absolutely ridiculous. Men tend to be stronger than women.

This wasn't under dispute. What was under dispute was the idea pushed forwards by certain ignorants that the difference was entirely biological, when, in fact, barring the furthest upper limits of strength, it's really a large part cultural.

I'm not joking when I say women are raised to live in a sedentary lifestyle, even now in modern times.

Infact men tends in average to be 3% taller and 7% stronger than the average woman. Which is why women rarely see active combat-duty, sorry I don't like it, but physics still applies, and also it's the common rather revolting practice with women captives. Even the Imperial Guard takes note of that.

Alright, this thing is 48 pages in, I am pretty sure most of what has to be said on the topic has been said and we are well into circular territory... I'm surprised it lasted this long frankly. It still generates too many alerts though and at this point it's time to shut it down.