Why brotherhood not sisterhood

Institute looks like gonna make the same mistake, while Brotherhood destroy harmful tech. Institute need to change policy, and Brotherhood need to change name. Dissolving Brotherhood is the only solution I think. Showing 1 - 15 of 29 comments.

Honestly hope you're joking. Bobs View Profile View Posts. Why would a name make any difference? Also in the original games pretty much all the members were men. The Brotherhood was named as such because it was founded by a group of men. If it was founded by a group of women it would have been the Sisterhood.

Devious View Profile View Posts. I can just imagine the PC police showing up in an even bigger airship right after the Prydwen. Hear that? This paper investigates the brother-sister relationship, neglected in mainstream literature on the Arab World, in the context of a transforming border Lebanese town. The paper discusses the factors which have made room for contesting the once taken for granted power of the brother: shifting livelihoods and economic transformations, changes in sociality and especially in household models and ideologies surrounding 'the family' and exposure to new values through a variety of means, including rising levels of education and satellite television.

The paper specifically addresses a fear that haunts unmarried women in making decisions about marriage, which is the predicament of falling under the power and control of a brother and his wife. The paper, hence, brings out tensions in sibling relationships in the context of a fixed ideology of kinship which postulates a specific morality and obligations and the reality of a conflict of interest and a perceived gender bias. The terms of brother aka, dodar, barodar enclose a large part of the complexity of social interaction in Tajik society.

The majority of myths teach us that brothers constantly fight each other Kluckhohn , but in Central Asia this is not the only picture that circulates.

In Tajikistan siblings are imagined 'as different as the five fingers of the hand' and at the same time as the most important social unit. Families invest into sons in a way to maximize future security and economic success by placing them into different sectors state, religion, work migration. The competition for 'niches' Sulloway within the family is a strategy, less to gain parental affection, than to oppose social roles that are predefined by birth order. Sulloway accords the laterborn siblings the potential of revolutionary discovery - if he is right, it means that a population with high fertility in consequence must have a higher risk of violent or non-violent conflicts and thus the proportional size of youths within a society would stand in any kind of relation to social change.

This leads me to take a look at the social relation standing behind the term brother in its second meaning, namely as an ideological term as it was used within the Islamic opposition group in the Tajik civil war.

Within a brotherhood the sibling terms became synonym of equality and unity within the frame of a revolutionary agenda. This paper will investigate on this to seemingly opposing notions of brother and also take a look at cross-references, which means sets of brothers within an Islamic fighting group and siblings' relationship after the civil war.

She escaped from that situation through the intervention of a half-brother whom she convinced to take his role as brother. The story tells us how she struggled in a complex situation of negotiated kinship, including not only the sibling relation, but also that of in-laws, parents and foster parents in urban as well as rural settings. The example shows how brother- and sisterhood can play a crucial role in a family conflict that touches on fundamental values about child labour and belonging of girls.

Mars Robertson Mars Robertson 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. This has been asked before. Gender is a matter of families and birth and the propagation of humanity by procreation. I agree with the comments on the previous duplicate that organisations wishing to be 'gender neutral' would not want to use any familial descriptions at all. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.

Nigel J Nigel J OP clearly goes on to restrict the sense required to the organisational usage. Which makes this a duplicate. Adults' perceived compatibility of life views was a significant determinant of closeness with individual siblings. Adult siblings are also far more "practically present" in each other's lives than previously thought. While adults provide more help to parents than they do to siblings, they give relatively equal amounts of help to siblings as they do friends.

Research findings also expanded our understanding of the role of parents, early in childhood and later in adult life, both ill and well. Adults who recalled a more cohesive early family life, and a parental emphasis on sibling unity, were closer to adult siblings than those who did not recall such emphases. Sibling favoritism bore no relationship to adult sibling closeness.