Most people do not choose Female characters. Most people posting on those threads choose to post female characters. It is a subset of a of subset of subset (people with a PC/mods, people on the Beth forums, people posting pics on that thread...with a priority on posting their most beautiful characters).
Yep.
Over the past few months, there were a whole bunch of "will you play male or female character" polls. They all pretty much came out to 82% male, 18% female.
But the people who play female seem more likely to be making characters for "looks". Which would make them more likely to post in a "show off your character!" thread. :shrug:
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Anyway, the key to the issue for me is - the character isn't a representation of "me". It's an action figure or playing piece that I'm running around on the game board. So there are no "implications" to be raised be playing a female character (or orc, or cat, or lizard, or..... :tongue:)