Editing Ork (section)

===Female Orks===

<span style='color:red;font-size:100%'>MY EYES!!!! THEY BURN!!!</span>

Vaguely referenced in older fluff and glimpsed during Blood Bowl, sacrificed because nobody wants to see those canonized saggy Ork tits (Except [[/d/]]), and fucking whores (and ye mum). Suffice to say, some drawfags will still draw them and several on [[/tg/]] will doubtlessly [[Faptau|fap]] to it. Considering how many random mutations are seen amongst the Orks, the possibility is [[Meme|more likely than you'd think]]. In normal canon, Orks are asexual, popping out of fungal growths in the ground...

...but in [[Rogue Trader|the oldest fluff]], when the Orks were basically Fantasy Orcs in Space, there ''were'' female orks. Slightly later (2nd Edition) fluff modified that idea: during later parts of their life cycle Orks would temporarily develop sexual characteristics and go bang one another. For the sake of Games Workshop's writers' self-respect, the idea of any orkish sexual reproduction was completely removed and forgotten. And all but the drawfags are happy for that.

Given the kind of universe Warhammer 40,000 is, the decision to make orks functionally genderless (a decision which occured some time in the early 90's) was likely driven by two factors: to reinforce the Orks warlike nature by making them dependent on getting blown up to repopulate and hardwire them for blockbuster-style total war, and the aforementioned removal of sex and gender discussions from the ugly comedy faction of an incredibly dark tabletop wargame. The change was both thematically appropriate and steered writers and fans away from uncomfortable topics. As of 2020 however, the idea of female orcs and goblinoids is fairly accepted across basically every genre and fictional universe which involves greenskins of any sort. This is a fairly significant change from the prevailing attitudes of the 20th Century fantasy, which was largely driven by <s>bad writing</s> female orcs and goblins being hidden somewhere and largely irrelevant.

More recent fluff has backed this up, stating that Orks have no reproductive organs and thus no personal concept of sex or gender. Some, usually Blood Axes or Slavers, are aware of the existence of the concept in other races, albeit at a rudimentary level; one bemused Blood Axe went on record describing the whole thing as funny and a captured tech-priest was once bribed with women as an incentive to do something for a Warboss.

<span style='color:green;font-size:115%'> Oi'm twalf an' wots dis? </span> {{FWIP|'''DAT GIT WAZ KRUMPED FOR DIS POST.'''}}