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Re: I think it's RJ's gender commentary kHz1000 Send a noteboard - 19/10/2016 01:01:14 PM

Thanks for this, was an interesting read!


I don't think the Blues are necessarily politicians, they are idealists and activists, and it is an indicator of the current state of the Tower that idealism and activism translates into political scheming and power games. The political focus is hardly unique to that Ajah, either. How many Yellows do we see running around the world looking to Heal? All of them seem far more oriented toward the Tower than might be expected, and only the Reds have the excuse of being on top of things, what with the world remaining unbroken for three thousand years, and even RJ giving them credit for being so effective at hunting men that they have culled the trait from the population. Every other Ajah's chosen specialization seems to have a negligible effect on the world, except maybe the Whites, who explicitly don't care. What matters in choice of Ajah is how and why you use whatever skills, regardless of with which Ajah they are generally associated.

The Reds find one or two male channelers a year. Effective perhaps but not efficient, what with 200 sisters whose raison d'etre it is to seek them out. And what about the Green? You imply they spend plenty of time in the Borderlands, but what are they doing there? Aisling Noon was the king's advisor in tEotW but there were no Greens at the Gap. Even the White, despite their avowed interest in philosophy, seem to treat it as almost nothing more than some vaguely defined notion of being unemotional (I'm thinking of Alviarin's disdain for the two mathematical logicians).
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