Yugoda's Healing Class

by **thespiritguru** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:02 pm

i think it's great that in the southern water tribe women can fight aswell as be healers, i mean look at katara she's got a real passion

by **Renori Fa** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:58 pm

If you did have healing, waterbending would be a good choice, but not everybody is able to do this technique, just like not every firebender can create lightning and not every earthbender can bend metal

by **WaterBending_Monk** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:39 pm

Anyone else have any thoughts on healing, or agree with me that the healing aspect makes waterbending the most versatile and desirable element?

Yeah I agree. This is why I love waterbending so much. It's definetly the most versatile of all the elements. So much to do with offense and defense, and then chances are if you're not a healer, at least one of your friends or family members in the watertribe is a healer. So it's like you shouldn't ever be afraid to go into battle and get dirty because chances are you'll always have someone to heal you if you get hurt in battle or in a dangerous situation.

by **Renori Fa** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:28 am

Yeah, like iroh said, "Water is the element of change"

but what if your whole family was only guy waterbenders, who dont learn healing. Then you dont have a healer

by **WaterBending_Monk** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:32 pm

Ya it definetly seems like male waterbenders focus more on waterbending then healing if they could heal. But im sure male waterbenders would learn even basic healing if they had to. and there's always the local healers to heal you in what ever tribe your in.

by **Renori Fa** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:21 am

Yeah, I guess. But I mean I think learning healing for a guy in the Northern Water Tribe is like a guy here becomming a cheerleader or ballerina (I mean like wearing a to-to, not to offend any guy out there who like throughs cheerleaders in the air and catches them and stuff like that, I mean like being an acual cheerleader with pom-poms and ect.). But yeah the local healing hut would be a big bonus lol

by **WaterBending_Monk** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:41 am

haha yea I see what you mean cause for so long only the women were the healers and the men were the waterbenders. But I remember pakku broke that tradition and started teaching the women waterbending. I bet after the women started waterbending practice, some men tried healing. Like switching what they are used to practicing so both genders can have time to try the new technique.

by **Renori Fa** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:10 pm

Yeah, probably things in the water tribe have changed.

Imagine being like the best healer in both tribes, healing everything. That would be soooo cool. It could be like a buisness

by **RongNuShii** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:44 am

Yea but it would also be hard. Imagine all the people you would have to cure. Thats alot. And you would be the only one

by **Renori Fa** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:46 am

Well you could have your own little team.

I know!! You could make a hospital!!

by **Avatar Thor** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:47 am

I have no idea.

by **Kana** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:58 am

That's a really interesting question. I've always wondered about this myself. Personally, I believe that the men of the water tribe most likely do have the ability to heal. The way I think of it is that those who can waterbend can not only fight with it but heal with it as well. I believe that there are those that have more of a natural inclination to heal than they do to fight and vice versa.

I have several theories on why it is only the women who were learning healing and only the men fighting. The first one deals with it being a patriarchal society. There was no feminist movement or gender equality. The way the A:TLA world seems to be is a pre-20th century era. No phones, television, radios, etc. So at that time, women were still expected to take on their traditional roles as caregivers and nurturers. Don't take anything I say as being sexist, please, as that is not my intention. Women have a more natural inclination to do the caring and what not. This is evident not only in the Northern Water Tribe but in other places of the world. I never really saw a woman fire nation soldier and the young boys of the Southern Water Tribe were taught by Sokka to defend- to be the providers and defenders. Men were expected to provide and protect, the traditional role of men seen in our world and the A:TLA world. So as such, they turned their attention to the offensive aspect of waterbending. It's, in a way, the way our world is today. You see far more female nurses than male nurses and you see more male soldiers than female soldiers.

The other thing I thought of was that it is possible the Northern Water Tribe didn't want women on the front lines. As women bear children, a decrease in women having kids means a decrease in population. A decrease in population means a decrease in healers and fighters. A decrease in healers and fighters means an increase of the chance that the Northern Water Tribe is defeated at battle. So by having the women learn healing and the men fighting, the population will remain roughly the same with no drastic decreases and at the same time, the women can serve their tribe- much in the same way women were nurses during war in the 1700s-1900s.

To add on to my last theory, it could just be that they were in a time of war. It is possible that women would have been allowed to learn to fight in a time of peace, when a decrease in population wouldn't have been as serious. As it was a hundred year war, the tradition could just have been passed on.

And also, to answer the second question, having the ability to heal and fight with water definitely makes it the most desirable element for me. It's incredibly versatile. It's the only element to be able to play offense, defense and to heal at the same time. And water can reflect emotions too, which I think is very cool. You can have an angry tidal wave in an ocean or a calm gentle ripple on a pond.

Well, those are my theories. I'm a few years late on this thread but *shrugs* oh well.

by **Tiny** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 11:25 pm

Those are some great ideas! I'm tempted to believe the patriarchal society one the most, though. It's an interesting society, but it is VERY obviously patriarchal. There seemed to be a stigma attached to a female learning to fight using waterbending. It could possibly be that there was a need for women to stay away from the front lines, but then it wouldn't be enforced with as much zealotry or prejudice as it was.

by **Kana** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:14 am

That's the one I'm more inclined to believe as well. The other was just a thought that passed through my mind.

by **Conzu** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 1:51 pm

I already always thought it had to do with the NWT being a patriarchal society. To me that seemed quite obvious, but apparently things changed in the past seventy years. Because the very first thing I noticed in LOK>Episode 'Out of the past' was that Tarrlok was being healed by a male healer.

I expected it to be a woman, but then I saw it was a man. LOL I even stopped and rewatched that scene to be sure.

by **Kana** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:12 pm

That doesn't surprise me that it was a male healer. I bet Katara and Aang had a lot to do with reshaping the Northern Water Tribe in that aspect.

by **mJacobsensl** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:57 am

That was the other thing I was going to mention but forgot 2L. Friday - property with Ocheje. The other class had contracts I believe?