Intergalactic Summit

that's one way of putting it....

I do not appreciate ignorants, who judge me without knowing me.
I was a marine, and majority of our squad were men.

Besides that, minmatar, your gender prejudices are primitive and terrible. There is no difference whom to serve with, with men or women, and performance of the soldier depends on their training, and not on their genders. We in the State live in modern society unlike you minmatars with your archaic prejudices about genders.

What the devil do you mean with 'gender prejudices'? We do not discriminate by gender, we discriminate by contribution and, sad to say, Voluval mark. In our tribal society, everyone is expected to pull their weight, man or woman, and they are afforded respect accordingly.

so the same as with us, only adding in arranged marriages?

Then the problem is you. Corporations offer what should be ideal choices of marriage partners. You are still single. You do not even know a man intimately.

And from what I heard from you in the Neocom communication channels, you have no intention of changing your current state of events. There is no discrimination, the conceptt of physical and emotional closeness with any hypothetical partners is alien to you.

I know of many Matari clans who practice arranged marriage. It forms bonds and allegiances between clans, sometimes to secure peace, sometimes as a mere bargaining chip as part of a wider deal.

My father had a suitor lined up for me shortly after my Voluval... then there was that terrible accident, so close to the wedding day.
A smart woman will always make sure she gets the final say in such things.

I would like to make the point that Diana Kim's view on men & sexuality is far from the common view in the State. It might be among Provists, but we kicked those out for a good reason!
So please keep that in mind when discussing it, you are arguing about an extremist viewpoint, not a view that's commonly held in the State.

No, the real problem is in minmatar ignorants, who judge others without trying to understand.
Do you know exact age, when Caldari must check in to marriage system? Do you know exact age, when I died and became capsuleer? Do you know about my DNA compatibility? Do you know about criteria how marriage partners are assigned?

And no, I am not going to answer these question. It is rather entertaining how minmatars show their ignorance, it makes us way easier to fight these primitives and feel no pity towards them.

Looks like you are the one trying to judge others without understanding.

I totally agree with you.
Our capsuleer lives make us individualistic, to live in closed shells of our capsules and inside our solitary cells - quarters. This is like a torture, slowly turning us into gallentean-like individialistic creatures. After all, we are not just battleships parts, we are still humans, we have human flesh and blood, human thoughts and memories. And for humans individialism is alien concept, we try to live in society.
I have been in this already six years. Rather long term, but I still cling to Caldari ideals and won't surrender to this artificial confinement, that tries to turn us into subhuman individualists. I often imagine that I am still in barracks, and there are peoples around. That there are other peoples, maybe other capsuleers are sleeping behind these cold metal walls. To maintain sanity in these harsh conditions, I deny everything that could make us like gallenteans... even if we are forced to live alone, we still can avoid hedonism, freedom, indecency.
Maybe sometimes I overdo it, but on other hand, it would guarantee I would never fall to gallentean subhuman level, and will remain human, even in such conditions.