Are EMC and E-Rep misogynistic?

[ironhands]

Raiders most likely use women... you can use your imagination. I can see 99ers and Mutants being the stereotypical mans job sort of thing.

that's how i figured it, mutants and 99ers are all from heavily male-oriented professions. I'd expect female raiders though. maybe we'll see a female dominated DLC enemy type.

[Tzar of kaos]

I just realized last night that I have not seen a single female humanoid enemy, anywhere. Apparently, Raiders, Mutants, 99ers and Dark Matter do not allow women to fight?

I was kinda surprised when I realized this as Rift has been gender-neutral since day one.

I thinking the same thing, no female enemy.The only one is the hellbug queen.Strange their didn't create females enemies...

[Haffoc]

If we had female enemies, the feminazis would be complaining about us killing women.

I was thinking along these lines. Maybe it's a Sony or Microsoft thing with no shooting of women in games.

[Tgreen]

Dark Matter helmets aside, none of their voices sound anything like a woman ... and then there would be a lack of breasts as well.

But it's not just an army but a small elite regiment and real life versions have very few women simply because of inescapable biological differences.

I was really surprised about Raiders though, since they really lack the rat girls ... I'd really love to shoot some women as well.

[Kommissar Kaede]

More reasonably, but I guess the presence of female PCs diminishes the worth of this argument:

The animation and modeling of a female character requires work in its own right. You cannot just take a generic male NPC and make a few cosmetic changes, and wind up with a female NPC. There is effort and cost that goes into such a thing.

Consider that most of the major enemy types possesses their own model as opposed to how player characters are handled. It simply would double the animation and modeling costs for new NPCs to properly include female NPCs.

Do you really want to shoot women that much that this actually matters to you?

[Shada Mori]

Raiders: woman's place is the kitchen

99ers: all we need is their girl parts

Dark Matter: how would you know we all have masks

Mutants: who needs women when we have each others holes

And I'm getting a warning

I admit it, I lol'd.

Heres a scary thought, maybe not all the votan races females are easily identifiable. For all we know, Varis could be a female of its race.

[Logan70]

If we had female enemies, the feminazis would be complaining about us killing women.

I don't think so. Bethesda has female raiders in the Fallout series, and I don't recall any complaints about that.

[BleakPanther]

You know I was ready to drop the hammer on my routine "Its all in your head" response but i actually like this thread better than most of the one's I've been posting in...

I'd say it mostly is a combo of Trion playing it safe in a time that still has "violence against women" protests and boycotts and a general lack of "human" enemies. We have humanoids but the only person that looked "human" that I remember shooting was the raider "Santana" something and it was explicitly stated that he was a traitor from the ERC or EMC.

[Era]

The lack of female mutants doesn't make sense (biomen sure, but basic footsoldiers not so much). Raiders makes sense to a degree. 99ers doesn't make sense but some of em could be women given that there is very little biological left on them. Dark Matter is pretty much an unknown. The lack of civilians and civilian housing makes absofrigginglutely no sense.

[ironhands]

The lack of female mutants doesn't make sense (biomen sure, but basic footsoldiers not so much). Raiders makes sense to a degree. 99ers doesn't make sense but some of em could be women given that there is very little biological left on them. Dark Matter is pretty much an unknown. The lack of civilians and civilian housing makes absofrigginglutely no sense.

the mutants are all former military, wouldn't you expect the male to female ratio to be massive? same with 99ers, they're all miners.