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Just as soon as they actually find something to indict. Given the current record, odds seem to be good on "Never."

Varies. Some, unfortunately, accept it as truth, with all the sorts of broadly negative things you'd expect from doing so. They tend to be either rather unhappy, or displaying a happiness that is... brittle, for lack of a better word. Surprising no one with two braincells, that sort of attitude is usually pretty bad for general mental health, ha.

Others pointedly ignore it, just like they do the teaching bit, and other parts that are of such nature. They tend to be more... normal, I guess? Usual range of happiness et al, no really notable consistent behavior patterns insofar as the subject goes.

Many just don't really pay attention to it -- it's not a pointed refusal to acknowledge so much as it just doesn't really come up. For those, it's often internalized to a degree, though, especially if they're still much in the way of churchgoing and whatnot. More deference/submission/etc. towards men than towards women, and so on.

Insofar as my experience with things go, anyway. Will say it's really fucking weird to have ladies twice a guy's age and thrice their experience/etc., like, stepping aside or waiting for 'em to talk first or various shit like that. Screws with my own sensibilities pretty hard. Feels damned unnatural to have the person(s) that should be kinda' heading things or whatev' not, just 'cause there's a dick in the room.

Uh, everyone who it is significantly affecting how likely they are to be hired? Anyone in a society where that imbalance is (at least perceived as) having a net deleterious effect for everyone, or at least more people than it's benefiting? Buncha' other folks, buncha' other reasons?

S'also worth noting that 5-10% on a societal scale is... not small. That'd be 15-30 million people in the US, if it's an ubiquitous effect (which it usually isn't, really, but still), around half that if it just effected the workforce. For comparison, OW, a universal 5% bias in the US workforce would effect just shy of two New Zealands. As in the entire country's population, a bit less than twice over. Stuff like that is why people care about small discrepancies, heh.

Middle ages style, no (at least in western areas), but, well, times have changed, and it's not exactly a contestable statement that certain religious affiliations are heavily overrepresented in positions of power in certain areas. Personally, as someone stateside, I'm a hell of a lot more worried about the churches and their adherents than just about anything conceptually leftwing. They already have considerably more secular influence than m'particularly comfortable with, heh, and it's caused problems.

... kinda' like you, apparently, considering people have been investigating that, in any number of fields, fairly regularly for better than two or three decades now.

I think the real question is whether the entirety of a coral reef would get the template, or just each individual polyp. Swarm rules?

And could you imagine what a necromancer could do with a half-dragon coral reef if it's the latter? Rig up an AoE reanimation spell, suddenly millions of ECL worth of undead half-dragon coral polyps.

Most of the combat-summoning elemental spells are only 1 gem, I do believe, so... pretty much anything has that.

What I'd say is most likely is that you're running into that problem where the script encounters an enemy it doesn't consider worth doing it's thing against and throwing everything to the wayside. That can happen with gem-using spells, iirc. Forget what the breakpoints and whatnot are, but I'm faiiirly sure that's a thing that happens. Try throwing the casters against a particularly sizable force and seeing if it works.