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My point is that training for military roles is not really a good way to spend our time anyways and by choosing Hands-off as opposed to spending those points on Liberal we could focus on those lessons acceptable for females that we decide are actually useful, enough of which there are to fill our schedule.A tendency to train women for military roles is not one of Caelis' virtues listed. Rather, that seems to happen in the Highlands and isn't discussed elsewhere. The cultured, technologically/magically advanced Caelis would be, if anything, given strict gender roles, adverse to women in the army particularly because military affairs are less essential. The lower the odds that we'll actually need to play a role in war because everyone else is dead or we have people trying to attack our castle, the lower the odds that warfare training is available.
The assumption that liberal+Overbearing=military is somewhat odd. Especially for a vote of favoring neither of us.
Liberal is also going to be a vote that's more open to a female monarch, even if neither pushes him into the useful role of a third faction rather than a backer in either ours or the prince's.
In general, any country's traditionalist background, particularly with overbearing, is going to require us to spend time on things like dance, embroidery, etc, the things described as core to traditional values in the options, even if they also let us pursue non-feminine arts such as some self-defense.
A military role is neither going to get us any advantages in status in a society like this, nor going to give us control over a significant amount of the nations combat potential which largely tied up in its mage population.
And the GM quite clearly stated that the combination of Liberal and Overbearing is going to lead to schedule seen by others as more than a bit weird for a girl and that is clearly coloured by the regent's own preconceptions.
This is not going to result in us getting the optimal education for a ruler or even something particularly useful to gain support in this nation.
It's going to lead to our uncle not being of the opinion that what we're supposed to do is learn all that weird girly stuff, but still being somewhat somewhat unsure what to do with us and determined to decide our schedule himself.
Given that he is the second son that is traditionally trained for military matters, he will default towards what he himself was taught combined with a few things that he thinks might somewhat be sensible and hope it's a reasoable fit for a second sibling of the other gender.
Sure, Liberal gives us more options to choose from, but Overbearing leads to him choosing those options for us and, given his own skillset and experiences, those are unlikely to be all that helpful with taking over a nation consisting mostly of studious but powerful mages.
Not to mention that a deficit in girly stuff does in fact lead to a loss of status, because people are expecting us to actually be good with that stuff.
Meanwhile Traditionalist but Hands-off give us the option to pump as much magic as we want, learning enough courtly behavior, music, dance, and theology not to embarrass ourselves constantly, while spending whatever time is left over can be spent on either other useful stuff available to women for training or advancing our agenda, because there isn't a clueless uncle insisting we need to learn how to swing a chunk of metal around for an hour a day.