Timeline for How do you normalize a taboo custom in a setting that most readers would not agree with?
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| Oct 9, 2018 at 22:18 | history | edited | Liquid |
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| Oct 9, 2018 at 13:36 | answer | added | Tom | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 9, 2018 at 13:34 | comment | added | Agent_L | You're making a huge error of applying your local customs and personal beliefs to the whole world. The whole question is hinged on this fallacy. | |
| Oct 9, 2018 at 11:15 | comment | added | ypercubeᵀᴹ | There are various matriarchical societies. Check the Mosuo and the Minangkabau for examples. | |
| Oct 9, 2018 at 7:48 | comment | added | Scoots | The system you describe is very similar to the one for the Outislanders described in Robin Hobb's fantasy world, it's very well explained in the second book in her Tawny Man trilogy. Reading that may give you some idea of how to communicate it to your readers. | |
| Oct 8, 2018 at 20:37 | answer | added | Alexander | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 8, 2018 at 20:19 | answer | added | Oz Stickman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 8, 2018 at 13:59 | comment | added | Incognito | @Mr.mindor yes that is correct. But both societies are made of witches. | |
| Oct 8, 2018 at 13:44 | comment | added | Mr.Mindor | To be clear, in your world you have two family structures that are not common in our world. 1. In the witch country, you have the whole clan marriage. (I assume this means that once married into a clan, the guy could father children with anyone in the clan?) 2. Elsewhere there is no marriage, or if there is it is not a defining feature of a family. Instead people have children with whomever they deem appropriate. In both cases the children belong to the household of the mother's clan and are raised by that clan with male role models not being their biological father but all males of the clan. | |
| Oct 8, 2018 at 5:28 | answer | added | user117529 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 8, 2018 at 0:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1049087308207738880 | ||
| Oct 7, 2018 at 21:51 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Examples: line marriages in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; assigned mating pairs with weak connections to kids in The Just City. | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 20:05 | comment | added | Simon Richter | The nuclear family appeared fairly late in human history, and is an inefficient way of raising children. Its only function is to (try to) connect paternity to resources spent on or inherited by children, so a matriarchal society that still has nuclear families would make no sense. | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | pjc50 | This is not as radical in SFF settings as you seem to think - the differently-tabooed society is practically a trope on its own. Just do it. If you feel the need for an explanation vehicle you can have an older member of the society lecturing younger ones on the correct behaviour. | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 17:02 | comment | added | Anentropic | check out some Ursula K Le Guin stories | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 16:21 | answer | added | RonJohn | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 12:33 | answer | added | Liquid | timeline score: 37 | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 11:03 | history | asked | Incognito | CC BY-SA 4.0 |