Thank you! This has been a bit of a labour of love, I must say - about three months from writing the first line to the posting date, so you can imagine I was really itching to post this. :) The most challenging was coming up with a take on the relationship that hadn't been done before, and I'm so glad this worked for you.
Regarding Centauri (in)equality of the sexes: I seem to recall your opinion on this was that it's only noblewomen who aren't allowed/expected to work, is that right? I was in two minds myself about how far I could reasonably take it. On one hand, it still seems odd to me that a technically advanced civilization like the Centauri wouldn't also be morally advanced enough to treat both sexes equally. Yet there are indications for it in canon - for one, the fact that noblemen are allowed to divorce their wives (albeit with permission from the Emperor) but not, apparently, vice versa. And the way the culture is modelled, I could totally imagine them having, for example, a kind of guild system (the guild of brivari brewers comes to mind *g*) where women simply aren't allowed. From there it's only a small step to assuming that "government jobs" like teaching wouldn't be open to women either. For free professions like shopkeeping I'd imagine it might be different. Just a theory, of course.
A one sentence down to the point analysis, and best of all, you phrased it in a way that feels right for Timov.
Ah, well, Timov is a sharp and to-the-point woman, isn't she? :)
And of course G'Kar had to barge his way into the story - he wouldn't have been G'Kar otherwise.
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Date: 2009-09-28 12:52 pm (UTC)Regarding Centauri (in)equality of the sexes: I seem to recall your opinion on this was that it's only noblewomen who aren't allowed/expected to work, is that right? I was in two minds myself about how far I could reasonably take it. On one hand, it still seems odd to me that a technically advanced civilization like the Centauri wouldn't also be morally advanced enough to treat both sexes equally. Yet there are indications for it in canon - for one, the fact that noblemen are allowed to divorce their wives (albeit with permission from the Emperor) but not, apparently, vice versa. And the way the culture is modelled, I could totally imagine them having, for example, a kind of guild system (the guild of brivari brewers comes to mind *g*) where women simply aren't allowed. From there it's only a small step to assuming that "government jobs" like teaching wouldn't be open to women either. For free professions like shopkeeping I'd imagine it might be different. Just a theory, of course.
A one sentence down to the point analysis, and best of all, you phrased it in a way that feels right for Timov.
Ah, well, Timov is a sharp and to-the-point woman, isn't she? :)
And of course G'Kar had to barge his way into the story - he wouldn't have been G'Kar otherwise.