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Revelation34 posted...

I have never seen or heard that clip before.

Talk to the black slave woman who sells healing power.

Here's her dialogue from the Fallout Wiki:

"A free woman. It's... been awhile since I've seen a woman who wasn't a slave.

We're property. If you're too young or too old, the men usually leave you alone. Usually.

You ought to be careful, yourself. I overheard some of the Legionaries talking about "trying you out." "

There's also at least a few other Legion characters who will tell you to your face that women have no value and exist solely to make babies. And Cass and the one slave girl you can talk to in the Cove mention how the men are eyeing them up as well.

And the game devs have mentioned that most of their attitude comes from the fact that Caesar is aware that infant mortality is a huge problem in a non-technological world (especially when you've deliberately outlawed all advanced forms of medicine), and children raised by "the state" rather than by parents can much more easily be indoctrinated, so it's in the Legion's best interest to basically keep all women as slaves, allow any man who wants to put a baby in them to do so, and then take the baby away to raise it. It's not entirely dissimilar to how Sparta operated (just with women having even less rights). So Caesar encourages the mindset that women are worthless, exist only to make babies, and don't have the right to say no to any man who wants to give it a go.

It's implied that maybe women "back home" have more rights (more akin to actual Spartan wives or German wives during WWII), or that maybe women will have more rights once the Legion is established in New Vegas and no longer on a constant war-time footing, but there's nothing in the game that actually suggests that's true at all.