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Hero (Retired)

Re: Stop over-saturation of female characters in star wars. Why?

Maybe you need new friends. Me and my three sisters all love Star Wars, lots of my female friends too! 🙂

(Just came home one hour ago from watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi on cinema a second time)

In how many of the games that I play do you think the main character is a male? And in the games I play where you can choose gender, lots of guys want to play as a female anyway, so not all men seem to have the same problem as you.

Gaming should be for everyone, and if we let women have more role models in gaming maybe more of them will become interested in it, amazing right? There are millions of games that you can play if you're unhappy with a female main character.

Welcome to the 21st century. :eahigh_file:

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Anonymous
8 years ago
@CMeki
I agree totally with you about the lack of games with female protagonists. I am hoping that 2017 having two huge releases with female protagonists (BFII and Horizon: Zero Dawn) will begin to change that!
There is a line from an XWING book where one of the human characters complains that he doesn’t want to room with an alien because “he smells.” Wedge tells him to, “imagine how you smell to him.” Not the same thing, but I think the author should consider how it is for a woman to play games and/or enjoy sci-fi in “a man’s world."
Keep on enjoying Star Wars, girl.