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7/1/2025, 2:01:16 PM
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>No mention of hyenas
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If you're going to keep the normal human dimorphism, then no, being weaker than the enemy is going to send is never going to work out in the long run.
If you want a matriarchy with female soldiers, then you actually have to base it off an animal that can pull that off, your choices either being
A: Some weird eusocial species
B: A classic role reversal, like in some birds
C: A mammalian clusterfuck, like the hyena.
The last one would be the most hard to write, seeing as female hyenas are the more aggressive sex DUE to being the childbearers, since being aggressive made it more likely your children would live to spread their genes. Consequently, this is also a species with a high female reproductive skew, so a minority of females are responsible for the majority of the descendants in a clan.
(Be aware this isn't a full role-reversal, males are still the ones to approach females, and this skew is more due so to how unequally food is distributed rather than females fighting over mates, although the males certainly are pickier than other mammalians. Then again, if you want the species to stay somewhat relatable, I guess they could fight over mates if the males partook in caretaking for whatever reason. My point here is your males will still have stuff that's well, male about them when it comes to things other than aggression.)
While it's alien, this is as about close you get to your answer while basing the species off mammalians, like humans.
>>95976811
I'm not sure how inherently true that is, given we've already had societies where a good portion of women took the backseat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern
(This did come with a lower fertility rate though, as expected, oops, and I don't think your going to find this pattern outside of Europe, hence the name.)
>No mention of hyenas
>Read title more closely
If you're going to keep the normal human dimorphism, then no, being weaker than the enemy is going to send is never going to work out in the long run.
If you want a matriarchy with female soldiers, then you actually have to base it off an animal that can pull that off, your choices either being
A: Some weird eusocial species
B: A classic role reversal, like in some birds
C: A mammalian clusterfuck, like the hyena.
The last one would be the most hard to write, seeing as female hyenas are the more aggressive sex DUE to being the childbearers, since being aggressive made it more likely your children would live to spread their genes. Consequently, this is also a species with a high female reproductive skew, so a minority of females are responsible for the majority of the descendants in a clan.
(Be aware this isn't a full role-reversal, males are still the ones to approach females, and this skew is more due so to how unequally food is distributed rather than females fighting over mates, although the males certainly are pickier than other mammalians. Then again, if you want the species to stay somewhat relatable, I guess they could fight over mates if the males partook in caretaking for whatever reason. My point here is your males will still have stuff that's well, male about them when it comes to things other than aggression.)
While it's alien, this is as about close you get to your answer while basing the species off mammalians, like humans.
>>95976811
I'm not sure how inherently true that is, given we've already had societies where a good portion of women took the backseat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern
(This did come with a lower fertility rate though, as expected, oops, and I don't think your going to find this pattern outside of Europe, hence the name.)
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