Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
"Starting to learn" isn't enough, they would have both died without formal training. It's the ones that survive that stage without receiving it that I mean.

Sure, if you use the broadest definition (the one that particularly snooty Aes Sedai like Elaida and Liandrin use), every single channeling society other than AS are wilders - but we don't want to be taking cues from them.
The point is that each gender automatically grabs for the same power source everyone else their gender does. Men go for one, women go for the other. ALWAYS. if your version of the magic system existed we would already have women channeling the male half by accident and vice versa because people touching the power and learning to use it in limited dangerous fashions without any knowledge of whats going on is a thing, and has been an established thing since the beginning of this worlds history. So again, you have to fundamentally altar the world of the wheel of time to make your changes happen because ALL OF IT TIES TOGETHER. In ways both grand and small, the system of magic as written effects how the world works and changing that to please more modern sensibilities will create so many plot holes it turns the tapestry into a fishing net. You would literally have to go through the entire story line by line and change even more of it to make it fit together again. Because there are far too many aspects that cant be hand waved with a "Gee, I guess we were just doing it wrong for 50 thousand years!" explanation.