Female Characters

[Ludens]

mmm... so their, things, (you know what i mean ) would be pressed tight on an armor that is more hot on the inside than a desert (IMHO) and jumping around with no support, either that or women with big... were abnormal in those times, IDTS (i don't think so) i think everyone has seen the Venus from Milo, and they're not cherries

And the Venus of Milo represents the typical female warrior rather than a beauty ideal? Women warriors were most likely though, sturdily-built women whose sexual characteristics had been suppressed by constant physical exercise. And I doubt the women mentioned in this thread used chest-plates: Boudicca and Tomyris because their cultures didn't know them, Cleopatra because she didn't fight, and Zenobia because she is described as an archer (and probably also didn't fight).

[jirisys]

And the Venus of Milo represents the typical female warrior rather than a beauty ideal? Women warriors were most likely though, sturdily-built women whose sexual characteristics had been suppressed by constant physical exercise. And I doubt the women mentioned in this thread used chest-plates: Boudicca and Tomyris because their cultures didn't know them, Cleopatra because she didn't fight, and Zenobia because she is described as an archer (and probably also didn't fight).

Well true that is, my point is wouldn't they be uncomfortable, either with big ones or small ones using a male unsupported armor, and even id they didn't use them i'm sure that they used clothes creating the "sexist armor plate" except that it is a piece of cloth, i was just saying that to contradict the point of the "sexist armor plate" for it's un-comfortability to use a male non-sexist armor plate, but big or small, they'd bound to be supported, protected and at least with a certain degree of comfort. Armors were designed for men because in those cultures, women fighters were almost impossible to find.

[Ludens]

I see what you are getting at, but wouldn't a simpler answer be that they didn't bother with chestplates at all? Apart from Zenobia, the only female warriors I am aware of were either Celtic or nomadic.

[Subotan]

mmm... so their, things, (you know what i mean ) would be pressed tight on an armor that is more hot on the inside than a desert (IMHO) and jumping around with no support, either that or women with big... were abnormal in those times, IDTS (i don't think so) i think everyone has seen the Venus from Milo, and they're not cherries (but not watermelons either... yum watermelons...

No, I was subtly alluding to the fact that I have seen images on this forum of female hoplites lacking a curiass altogether.

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[Olaf The Great]

The only females you will see are Princesses and traps.

[jirisys]

No, I was subtly alluding to the fact that I have seen images on this forum of female hoplites lacking a curiass altogether.


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