I think it needs to be explicitly stated that the creation of this rule would have likely eliminated the first woman to win a Crown
*Only* woman to win a Crown, still. There have been other women who have won coronets, but AFAIK she's still the only Queen by Right of Arms.
I continue to wonder why "opposite sex" remains the default.
Playing Devil's Advocate: I do actually sympathize somewhat with the bind that the Board is in. The Census produced a lot of interesting results, and one of those results was that this issue is *extremely* contentious. And not just in the conservative South -- even in the East, one of the most pro-change Kingdoms, the margin in favor of the Same-Gender Crown proposal was far from overwhelming.
They're in a very tough spot. It's quite clear that whatever decision they come to, it will piss off a large fraction of the Society. So they're taking it very slowly, floating trial balloons and experimenting to see how they can minimize the psychic damage. I happen to think this particular experiment was surprisingly badly thought out, but I'm not surprised that they appear to be grasping at straws a little...
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Date: 2012-10-30 07:02 pm (UTC)*Only* woman to win a Crown, still. There have been other women who have won coronets, but AFAIK she's still the only Queen by Right of Arms.
I continue to wonder why "opposite sex" remains the default.
Playing Devil's Advocate: I do actually sympathize somewhat with the bind that the Board is in. The Census produced a lot of interesting results, and one of those results was that this issue is *extremely* contentious. And not just in the conservative South -- even in the East, one of the most pro-change Kingdoms, the margin in favor of the Same-Gender Crown proposal was far from overwhelming.
They're in a very tough spot. It's quite clear that whatever decision they come to, it will piss off a large fraction of the Society. So they're taking it very slowly, floating trial balloons and experimenting to see how they can minimize the psychic damage. I happen to think this particular experiment was surprisingly badly thought out, but I'm not surprised that they appear to be grasping at straws a little...