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Why in a setting where the world is basically in a medieval-ish era would there be no stigma around homosexuality/transgenderism? The book does present some ways in which people of the same gender could bear offspring, but it seems like such a half-assed way to try to shove lgbt acceptance into a setting where it wouldn't probably exist.
People need to have children for humanity to spread and grow, so naturally, those who for whatever reason choose to engage in relationships that won't allow them to have children would be shunned and ostracized by society. In modern day, it's no problem what someone's orientation is because spreading and growing isn't really a thing humanity needs to do at this point in time.
The way the book hand-waves away the problem by saying some Aeon Priest created a device that allowed men to get pregnant is stupid, and brings up one of my major problems with Numenera's setting: if there are people that can reverse engineer numenera for specific purposes, why is the world still in a medieval era? You can't just go around saying that the way numenera work are just so mysterious and beyond the grasp of humans, then turn around and say that numenera can sometimes be reverse engineered for specific purposes.
I really like the idea of Numenera, but it's things like this that really turn me off from the setting.
People need to have children for humanity to spread and grow, so naturally, those who for whatever reason choose to engage in relationships that won't allow them to have children would be shunned and ostracized by society. In modern day, it's no problem what someone's orientation is because spreading and growing isn't really a thing humanity needs to do at this point in time.
The way the book hand-waves away the problem by saying some Aeon Priest created a device that allowed men to get pregnant is stupid, and brings up one of my major problems with Numenera's setting: if there are people that can reverse engineer numenera for specific purposes, why is the world still in a medieval era? You can't just go around saying that the way numenera work are just so mysterious and beyond the grasp of humans, then turn around and say that numenera can sometimes be reverse engineered for specific purposes.
I really like the idea of Numenera, but it's things like this that really turn me off from the setting.