A thought about Drow males

LoneWolf23

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...Seeing as how Drow society is Matriarchal, centered around a mighty female deity and her entirely female priesthood, and with women being the wielders of absolute government power...

...Does it seem to you as if Crossdressing should be more popular amongst male Drow? I could see Drow spellcasters like wizards being likely candidates...
 

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LoneWolf23 said:
...Seeing as how Drow society is Matriarchal, centered around a mighty female deity and her entirely female priesthood, and with women being the wielders of absolute government power...

...Does it seem to you as if Crossdressing should be more popular amongst male Drow? I could see Drow spellcasters like wizards being likely candidates...

I would not think so. Any male Drow that would be so bold probably would not live long in such a society.
 

Perhaps male drow in positions of authority would wear ceremonial clothing similar to that of the females in ceremonies, but I agree that most male drow crossdressers would be killed as a mockery of the female's power. Could be an interesting underground movement, though.

Demiurge out.
 

You'd probably see more cross-dressing Drow females, actually.

And unless they had a lot of power behind them, they'd get killed, too. Drow society doesn't strike me as very tolerant of... well, anything.
 

LoneWolf23 said:
...Seeing as how Drow society is Matriarchal, centered around a mighty female deity and her entirely female priesthood, and with women being the wielders of absolute government power...

...Does it seem to you as if Crossdressing should be more popular amongst male Drow? I could see Drow spellcasters like wizards being likely candidates...

Even when drow society isn't being ruled by queens, it's still being ruled by queens. :p
 
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I can imagine the Male equivalent of Joan of Arc in Drow society.

Veldrin of the Underdark : "Loth has spoken to me, she has given me a devine quest to defeat the rivvin!"

Drow Crowd: "Burn him for heresy! Loth only speaks through female clerics!"
 


To memory, drow have never been conservative in their dress. Every time you see pictures, it's leotards, tabards, weird dungeonpunk stuff that you'd wear in hot caves where sunburn isn't much of an issue. As the strong gender, the women are likely to wear utilitarian stuff, trousers and short skirts rather than long flowing gowns that would inhibit them in combat. Drow men, restricted, would be likelier to wear such flowing gowns by custom. Possibly form-concealing in an arabic fashion (keep them men-folk safe from the thieving eyes of jealous neighbours).

So an uncustomary drow man would likely wear trousers or bare legs under a skirt/kilt. Would he be allowed to do so? It depends on how egalitarian the drow of that region are. If they're allowing their menfolk to study the Path Of Mobile Artillery (wizardry), they're probably OK with it (you don't send purty little things off to war, do ya? If you let 'em study, you're admitting they're kinda human, um, drowian), although such people will be looked at funny. Maybe groped every so often.

If the campaign world features female adventurers, it's likely that gender relations aren't so cut-and-dried. Trouser-wearing drow men are going to be rare, maybe feature on the covers of raunchy magazines (if they had such things), but they'll be there. And they'll look weird and pretty.
 

According to the old 2e suppliment Demihuman Deities, the vestments of a priestess of Lolth are actually quite modest, consisting of a black dress with a long skirt and long sleeves, and an elaborate headdress. However, most artwork I've seen of drow women have them wearing revealing dominatrix-style outfits.
 
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