Talk:Back to the Barn/@comment-34634419-20180209031155/@comment-31152477-20180915181132

I've been thinking this for a while. I wouldn't be the only time where Homeworlds ideals are used as metaphors for discrimination and the old fashioned ideals of the past (and some counties were it still goes on). Cross Gem perma-fusions are a metaphor for things like gay or interracial (and possibly inter-class) relationships, whilst "defective" Gems are a metaphor for people with disabilities.

And to expand on Pearls being a metaphor for women were thought of as literally being the legal property of her husband, father or whatever. And a women who didn't get married before her father/guardian died, she would end up becoming a servant of some rich guy, so she'll end up as someone property eaither way.