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Gorean Book Quote Requests
Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 254 | I have a question in the section on women and swords. It is quoted well and noted success and failures as appropriate. But 'no weak men of gor'. There is one area not mentioned. Tarl in Outlaw of Gor where he and a merchant are bound by a silver board and told to kneel upright. Tarl does so, to no ones surprise. The merchant cannot. Tarl then impressed them by bending and helping the man kneel upright. And the warriors applauded his strength. I am sure you can find the exact passages. My question is thus. Does this not show there is great enough disparity in the strength of men to at least say there might be some weak ones? And Yes I concede, I recall not one passage of a genuinely strong woman. I do not claim women to be equal. I ask for clarity.
Answer
Your question has considerable merit.
The passage you refer to is Tarl and Ost (who, by the way, was not a Merchant, but a whimpering, sniveling little tattle-tail) which is spoken of in Book 2, beginning on page 92.
So, yes, Ost versus Tarl certainly shows a "disparity in the strength of men" however I am not sure that using Ost as an example of a "man" is reason enough to offset my conjecture that, "It is nothing for a man to overpower a female." - Tribesmen of Gor    Book 10    Page 143
What this really proves is there are very few "hard-fast" rules that have no exception. And this why we need to reason on the overall theme of the entire series to base a decision.
I wish you well,
Fogaban
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