Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-3580035-20130420010932/@comment-7186329-20130423171934

Ok, so GW has a female writer. Good for them, they need another one. I am fairly certain that GW realises that expanding the material about the Adepta Sororitas is very complicated, and probably risky. It could attract female fans to the 40k universe, but if the Adepta are not portrayed properly it might also distance female fans, and possibly provoke a feminist reaction, which would be bad.

What are the Sisters of Battle? They are women. They are fierce. And they are insane religious fanatics with flamethrowers. While I do like women with a strong character, I aslo know how they can become if they `lose it` and get mad, when that type of woman is given a purpose, such as incinerating stuff and people, and add to that fanaticism, what you get is a type that will not hesitate to destroy whatever is in her path.

And there is also this. The armour of the Adepta provides as much protection as Space Marine armour, but it does not provide the strenght enhancment capability. What does that mean? The Sisters of Battle rely on their own stenght. Biologically women who train cannot get muscles in the same way as men. The requierment for muscle growth is testosterone, primarily in males. Women do not have testosterone, what they have is more estrogen, that means if a woman trains with weights at the gym she will not get muscles like men, and her body will get an almolst completely different reaction to the training. The only way for a woman to get heavy musculature is by taking anabolic steroids, which destroy people from the inside. Because of the severe training the Adepta endure, they should be heavily muscled. Heavily muscular women freak me out.

I have created dietary and training programs for well over a dozen people, mostly women, and if there is one thing i have extensive knowledge of it is how the human organism works. The Adepta are heavily muscled, and i will not go in detail about what and how the Astartes are.