Cross-dressing in the Relms... [Archive] - Wizards Community

Cross-dressing in the Relms... [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Sir Aurik
11-07-04, 08:39 PM An interesting question came up in our last game session...

"How would people in the forgoten relms hande cross-dressers?"

What do you all think?
philnicau
11-08-04, 12:11 AM Historically they where handled very badly
one of the charges levied against Joan of Arc was wearing Mens Clothing.
Vharuck
11-08-04, 10:31 AM Then again, in FR and most D&D settings, there isn't the huge barrier between male/female roles. Women are great leaders (The Simbul and Lady Alustriel), are just as likely to be adventurers, so I don't see the problem. The only thing that history had a problem with is that clothes often times signified your role in society. If you ever read Macbeth, that's a motif in it. For a woman to wear a man's clothes was to say that the woman was of equal rank as a man, which wasn't true then.

I'd say they'd treat it like today. Scorned in public, yet they probably had their fair share of just-for-fun drag shows and drunken dress-up parties.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Sir Aurik 11-07-04, 08:39 PM	An interesting question came up in our last game session... "How would people in the forgoten relms hande cross-dressers?" What do you all think?
philnicau 11-08-04, 12:11 AM	Historically they where handled very badly one of the charges levied against Joan of Arc was wearing Mens Clothing.
Vharuck 11-08-04, 10:31 AM	Then again, in FR and most D&D settings, there isn't the huge barrier between male/female roles. Women are great leaders (The Simbul and Lady Alustriel), are just as likely to be adventurers, so I don't see the problem. The only thing that history had a problem with is that clothes often times signified your role in society. If you ever read Macbeth, that's a motif in it. For a woman to wear a man's clothes was to say that the woman was of equal rank as a man, which wasn't true then. I'd say they'd treat it like today. Scorned in public, yet they probably had their fair share of just-for-fun drag shows and drunken dress-up parties.