Alternate forms of Discrimination

katchen

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Supposedly, Queen Elizabeth I required all the ladies of her court to be able to corset their waists down to 13 inches diameter. Women with larger waists were not welcome. But that story is apocryphal and might have been when she had just been crowned Queen.
 
i decided to skip most of the thread because i honestly don't give a shit right now :p i'll read over the rest of it later


one idea i came up with is discrimination based on blood type. the actual idea may be a bit ill-conceived, now that i think about it, but the gist is that more common blood types are in the lower rungs on the social ladder while the rarer ones are at the top. however, there's one exception: people with type O-Negative blood are at the very bottom, though not in the way you'd think: while people with the most common blood type(s) are the ones that are essentially slaves, O-Neg people aren't so much worked as farmed, kept in containment and fed (by force if necessary) to keep them producing blood that can be used for whatever reason. this sounds like it would fit best in a vampire society, but i had envisioned it as being just by plain ol' humans.
 
Supposedly, Queen Elizabeth I required all the ladies of her court to be able to corset their waists down to 13 inches diameter. Women with larger waists were not welcome. But that story is apocryphal and might have been when she had just been crowned Queen.

Given how this was for the most part before corsets really became popular I'm pretty sure thats apocryphal.
 
Assuming a religion where music has express importance, I can imagine discrimination based on voices (the mute and tone-deaf at the bottom, specific social roles reserved for first sopranos and contraltos, etc).
 
Handedness would be very effective, especially since so much of society is geared to righties already.

Plus, there's a lot of subtle discrimination based on handedness already: "sinister" is from French for "left"...
 
Never saw it. I was actually imagining a person I know who is bitter, cranky and had perfect pitch and thought "you know, it's just luck there aren't more of him".
 
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