Talk:Rat Mother/@comment-27997791-20190302153132

I again wonder about why the skaven male/female birth ratio is so squewed, and I think my best speculaitve guess would be that it's either some kind of side-effect of the breeder "enhancement", or that it's actually a feature that the skaven deliberately include when they "enhance" the females. This would mean that they could have a population with a balanced sex ratio, which might still be able to have similar total reproductive rates, but they instead prefer to have a smaller number of "industrialized" females, because that way it's easier to control them and to control who does or doesn't get to breed. Presumably because those in power want to keep that privilige and enjoyment to themselves.

I guess if you want a darker take on it, it could be that skaven are actually so awful that any natural females living in common society just tend to get repeatedly brutalized, to the point where it threatens their lives and the lives of any children they may be having. So in that case skaven society might've chosen to reduce the number of females and take control of them, because that means they can't be ganged up on by brutal male skaven. I don't like thinking that, but it seems kind of plausible, given how terribly skaven tend to behave in general.