r/claymore • u/schvance • 17h ago
[Discussion] Anybody else wishes the story delved a bit more into gender politics and patriarchy?
Now obviously the manga plays with these topics a bit but it never does very much with them. We basically have an all-female order of virgin knights who will turn into human eating monsters if they reach a sexual climax. Claymores also maintain their youth forever and eat much less than the average person, basically representing the ideal version of women in the eyes of patriarchy taken to the extreme. Another interesting thing is that reason men are not allowed into the order anymore is also because of the presumption that men cannot control their urges, which we are hinted may not be grounded in reality and it's just a cultural stereotype.