Male Viera stuff from Matsuno

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Huh, so Viera are literally intersex... and now wikipedia made me read about Sambia people. Maybe that's where part of the inspiration came from... a bit of a content warning though. D:

I do have to wonder what the whole business would do to their mindset though - growing up knowing they're going to have to take up very strict gender roles but not having any idea which one they'll get. And are children thought of as genderless or is everyone considered female by default, until someone develops as a male?

Would they even have a concept of gender stereotypes or is it just "I am a man so I live alone in the woods", "I am a woman so I live in the village", and what the genders do is whatever they need to survive in their designated places?

The entire "8/10 children are born female, yet we subject the few males to a brutal rite of passage from which many perish, so they can try to survive alone in the woods and possibly come back to mate every few years, ensuring Viera don't die out" is so... flawed?