Talk:Delilah Copperspoon/@comment-86.0.95.240-20130821223319/@comment-208.123.179.243-20130826012639

Bit of a misread, in my opinion--I think she (and her witches) were abused by men in the past, which is why they have a certain attitude towards them. It seems implied that many of the witches were former lowerborn women, some prostitutes, who have been able to get out of the life through the power that Delilah gives them, and so they feel loyalty towards her because of that. Delilah herself is power hungry due to the life she has had to lead as a lowborn woman, unable to exercise agency in her life. When she got the mark, her ambitions were finally able to come true.

Really, sexuality doesn't come into it, more social class--and social class in Dunwall, despite having an Empress, tends to lead towards men being in positions of power. Reminds me a lot of Reniassance England that way (though with an industrial revolution having been foisted upon it).