The Spa Meme

[anwei]

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[kaya_waterwave]

"Sounds exhausting," Kaya commented, shaking her head a little, "but in the end I think it all comes down to what you learned when you live in the times of your world. I had to learn some things too, as was expected of any girl in my tribe."

Healing if you could bend, cooking, preparing children, having them and being married yourself. These were things that came with being from the Northern water tribe.

"You're usually given power by being the daughter of the chief," Kaya said. "Otherwise, well, you do what your tribe expects. I was starting to see great change though, after the defeat of the fire nation. I hope now that if i go back to the Northern water tribe, I can teach girls new ways to protect themselves and strengthen the ties with each other and other people."

[anwei]

"It was. Just carrying this hair around was tiring! And because my culture was so insular, a lot of the things I learned aren't useful. What order the four ceremonial toothpicks go in beside your guests' plate, and that sort of thing."

On the other hand, if they ever met a Ninth Empire historian (gag) she could give him or her an earful.

"After what you're learned here, I can see you teaching an entire generation to a new way of life. Being a teacher can be even stronger than being a leader, because all of your allies are so cute." That with a straight face.

[kaya_waterwave]

"I see there might be a few similarities between your culture and mine," Kaya observed. "We weren't as strict when it came to daily life, although as I told you, we really could have been better when it came to the lives of women back then."

"Cute allies?" This caught Kaya's interest, not to mention her amusement. "How would that effect anything?"

[anwei]

"I saw some of those power inbalances between men and women, when I was on Earth." She held out one hand and see-sawed it in the air. "Our species is different - not always in good ways. Physically the sexes are very similar in strength and endurance, and in general I would say that women have the higher status."

For reasons of Living People reproduction, which were probably too specific for Kaya's ears.

"When you are a leader, those who follow you can be ignored, shunned, or sent away. But if you have taught everyone's children, it is harder to ignore them. Because they can come bounce on their parents' bed in the morning, and din truth into your ears," she laughed.

[kaya_waterwave]

"We've lived with it a long time, and its why a section of those waterbenders split off and became the Southern Water tribe. I have a feeling that the Fire Nation saw both men and women as benders as a threat and attacked them first. It didn't help they didn't have as treacherous terrain as we do either. So our tribe remained intact, but at the cost of being shut off from everyone else."

Women with higher status? Sounded almost fiction to her in some ways.

"Even if I became a leader, it wouldn't be my place to send away others! I find that, from my own teachers, you start to teach them just as much as they teach you in some ways. Though they might be podded now, I feel like my teachers learned from me as much as I did from them, especially when they have to adapt their methods."