Re: [semi OT] Women wargamers -longish

Stephen wrote:

> From the female starship captions/admirals on TV and in books you find
some
> common traits:

> 1) Commands-most of the female captions don't command "the big ships,"
but
> faster more maneuverable ships.  My hypothisis is that these ships
need
more
> skill to run effectively, and that there talents (i.e. thinking
instead
of
> going in guns blazing) are better suited to this type of command.

> 2) Female captions are more likely to think before acting.  This also
aplys
> (at least from my observations) to real life.... 
> You won't find (please corect me if I am wrong) a woman caption
commanding a
> Battleship on a permite bases, but a faster (and smaller) warship (if
a
> warship at all).  Some exsamples from books:

> Caption	   Ship:
> Janeway	  Intrepid-class scout ship/ Light Cruiser
> Murakuma	?????-class Battlecruiser

Can't speak for many TV shows (though it wasn't the *male* captain of an
Omega-class who rammed in Severed Dreams!), but if you're thinking of
Vanessa Murakuma in In Death Ground (by Weber), she flew her colours
from
a Viper-class battleship until it got too badly shot up in 3rd Justin -
she then moved to a superdreadnought. There are lots of female admirals
in Weber's books, BTW - most of them command the heaviest ships
available
(Erika Wilson, Jessica van der Gelder, Hannah Avram just to mention a
few).

'Course, Weber is a man himself and might not have noticed the
difference
in mental vewpoints :-)
 
Oerjan Ohlson
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