[LMB] [SPOILERS] Legacy: "Assume it's true ...

[Beth Mitcham]

On 7/18/07, Peter H. Granzeau <pgranzeau at cox.net> wrote:
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> At 01:18 AM 7/18/2007, Beth Mitcham wrote:
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> > > > Men don't stop patrolling when they marry.  He was supposed to marry
> > > > in addition to patrolling.  Not just marry; procreate.
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> > > Procreation however doesn't require marrying...  and historically in
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> > > world there was a lot of engendering outside of marriage!
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> >Hmm.  I wish I had my books... I thought Dag said that there was
> >little birth out of wedlock with the Lakewalkers, but maybe he just
> >said that it wasn't a problem, since the woman owns her tent.  I don't
> >think we met any single parent households, and the unconventional one
> >was, uh, unconventional.  (but not punished)
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> I think we have evidence that the reason that birth outside wedlock
> wasn't a problem was that both man and woman would know when she was
> fertile, so both partners would be well aware of the
> possibilities.


Yeah, it's fairly clear there are few accidental pregnancies, but is there a
huge stigma
against having babies as a single mom?  If your tent is wealthy and you have
lots of
sisters & aunts (and uncles),  do you go ahead and have kids without only
the momentary
help of the father?  My first impression from Dag was that it didn't happen
much,  but I can't
go back and look yet.


 (interpersonal relationships
> being as complicated as they are, after all--there are men who just
> won't take "no" for an answer),


Or in the case of Lakewalkers, "I haven't asked you" for a question :-).


> but once such proclivities were
> known, one hopes that Lakewalker society was able to handle him so he
> wouldn't or couldn't do that in the future.


Again, I thought Dag mentioned that rape was rare among Lakewalkers, because
it's hard to hide that from your ground.

Beth M.

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