<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Gleywine Erewood Bentari</span><br/>The Hunter</span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/3e7683c1-2307-42a9-804a-0604ef177005_zps4a599908.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Gleywine had listened to the words of the professor. So, the man was a teacher. They had teachers too, but only for things that require physical education, like being a hunter, a soldier, a worker. They called them instructors. For everything else, well, every little kid got a kind of a headset, displaying pictures in front of your eye and telling you what you have to know. Of course it was on need to know base. They only learned what they really needed, the nobles had a strong hand on that, they didn’t want the lower castes to be able to revolt. But they were all intelligent, they learned by looking at things. But what was philosophy and anthropology? More questions, but first he had to answer the one of the professor.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">“It’s a good question. Why are the women ruling here? They always did, that one is for sure. It had been like that since the old times. I don’t know it exactly, but I guess it has something to do how Getalia is to you and how the roles are divided in our culture. You see, in principle every man and woman has to do what he can do best. There is no question that woman have smaller hands and that they can use them better in building small things and that men are stronger. So, in the ancient times, before they invented artificial food, the men had to go out of the towns to hunt for food. The women stayed inside and worked in the processing industry or in science or as doctors.”</span><br/><br/>Gleywine saw the Professor nodding, so far it seemed not a lot different between what they knew and what it was here. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">“You have listened to what animals I have described to the blond-haired girl for her story, you may understand that it is dangerous to be out of the towns. We hunters are usually not even reaching my age. And nowadays our weapons are good. In ancient times it was very risky to hunt. So, why would you give the power to the men, if they die like flies and the knowledge is permanently lost? The women understood that they had to keep the knowledge with them, as they outlived the men easily. It reduced the men to interchangeable helping hands, while the women got more and more powerful. With some terrible side effects.” </span><br/><br/>The next thing Gleywine told was something he had learned from a friend, who had been interested in the Getalian history. It was not official teaching knowledge for the lower castes.<br/> <br/><span style="color: #FF8000">“As you may imagine with all the men dying young and the women outliving them, the society soon got kind of twisted. Men were a rare object and there were some wars between two female parties, those who wanted to create breeding centers, where men would have been held as sperm donors and those who wanted to make it more equal by applying birth control to minimize the amount of female babies. It was a long and bloody war and in the end none of them really won. But the queen applied rules, to make the situation better. A woman was only allowed one female daughter, while the first born son was raised in a secluded area in town and before coming off age, he had to serve three years as a sperm donor, before he was allowed to work. And they implemented age limits for life. If someone got older than the limit he was killed.” </span><br/><br/>The Professor listened fascinated and Gleywine understood him. It was some interesting story of the past and he knew, why they did not tell it openly to the kids. Because the story was not finished yet.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">“The main rule the Queen applied was for the scientist. They had to find ways to regulate the gender balance and to find ways to reproduce with knowledge of the gender. It took some time, but finally they managed. Today most of the kids are created artificially. You know that they are healthy and you know their gender. If you don’t like what you may get as a son or daughter, you just tell them and they kill it off. Next try. And there is some control association who calculates how many men and women are needed in the society. There are numbers applied and if they are fulfilled, no more kids of that gender are created. Or none at all, if none are necessary. And to keep women in the position of power, the gender roles are kind of fix. You will find more females in science and medicine, but more males in the upper military ranks, as hunters or in dangerous jobs. They still keep the powerful and harmless jobs for the females and those who may kill you for the men.” </span></div>