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 Before I begin, though, I would like to insert a brief disclaimer here, since this is a topic that, in one aspect or another, many people have strong feelings about:
-I am, generally speaking, socially liberal, and in particular I believe firmly that so long as they're not going out of their way to bother anyone else in the process, **People Should Get To Decide, Not Be Told, Who And What They Are, How To Be Happy, And Who They Sleep With**. Therefore, it should not be taken as any reflection of my personal philosophy that [[Avishraa:|Avishraa]] is a world that contains many prejudices - including around sex and orientation and gender identity - and all the generally unpleasant behaviors that can follow from such prejudices.
+I am, generally speaking, socially liberal, and in particular I believe firmly that so long as they're not going out of their way to bother anyone else in the process, **People Should Get To Decide, Not Be Told, Who And What They Are, How To Be Happy, And Who They Sleep With**. Therefore, it should not be taken as any reflection of my personal philosophy that [[universe:mikurmiya:avishraa|Avishraa]] is a world that contains many prejudices - including around sex and orientation and gender identity - and all the generally unpleasant behaviors that can follow from such prejudices.
 I've said this before, but it bears repeating: Avishraa, as a whole, is not meant to be an ideal of anything, but a realistic, or at least believable, world. Certainly examples of tolerance exist, but it would not be credible, given everything else that's been established about the inhabitants, that they'd //all// be inclined to live and let live, and therefore there is no also shortage of examples in which they behave toward each other in fashions that range from "unfair" to "really damn horrible".
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 ...it may be best to start with some sociobiology.
-The proto-takmar - the [[species:clade:takmin|common ancestors]] of the takmar and the xtauh - first entered what is now called the [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:region:brightness|Brightness]] approximately [[history:prehistory:|74 thousand]] [[concept:timekeeping#cycle|cycles]] ago. In what might loosely be called their "natural" state - though it seems likely that they had acquired at least some aspects of sophonce by this point - individual proto-takmar each had a defined territory which they sought to defend from others of the same sex, though there was often leeway given to one's own siblings. Female territories tended to be smaller and more strictly defined, limited by the requirement to remain near a nesting site; male territories were much larger and more nebulous, and without any particular center, with the male inclined to wander around in it as his path took him.
+The proto-takmar - the [[species:clade:takmin|common ancestors]] of the takmar and the xtauh - first entered what is now called the [[geography:sekhaa:region:brightness|Brightness]] approximately [[history:prehistory:|74 thousand]] [[concept:timekeeping#cycle|cycles]] ago. In what might loosely be called their "natural" state - though it seems likely that they had acquired at least some aspects of sophonce by this point - individual proto-takmar each had a defined territory which they sought to defend from others of the same sex, though there was often leeway given to one's own siblings. Female territories tended to be smaller and more strictly defined, limited by the requirement to remain near a nesting site; male territories were much larger and more nebulous, and without any particular center, with the male inclined to wander around in it as his path took him.
 Male territories almost always overlapped with those of a number of females, but were poorly defined enough that they also often overlapped with each other, so that female territories might, in turn, be visited by a number of different males. It was usual for a male to bring the female a present of food or goods during a visit, to gain - or maintain - her favor by helping provide for her and for those children she was caring for. From an evolutionary standpoint, this served as a signal to the female that the male could provide for offspring (despite not being greatly involved in their early childhood otherwise) and served as a possible inducement for her to choose to bear his young rather than others'.